Pieter Jan Stappers, professor of Design Techniques

View my cited papers on Google Scholar, or view my papers on TU Delft Pure.

Downloads and Views

In 2026 we created a Contextmapping Resource Page with pointers, videos, and downloads, including a Field Guide for students.

In the Fall of 2020 we compiled materials with tips on academic writing, and reflections on our experiences with bringing the large workshop-based course C&C online. Click on the links to get the tips.

Research Interests

The focus of my research is developing tools, techniques, and methods to support design and research, and especially the interaction between design and research. Main elements in this are

Participation (the role of non-designers in design processes, especially those traditionally referred to as ‘users’) (e.g., Convivial Toolbox),

Research through Design (the role of designers and design activities within research processes: doing design to create knowledge) (e.g. the Research through Design overview chapter in the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction), and my most recent keynote.

Visualisation (techniques to support understanding through diagrams, storyboards, infographics, video, …) (e.g., the storyboarding card set).

And often these interests intersect.