Founder of Imagining Science
Strategist, designer, researcher, and educator
Contact
+41 78 264 274 0
e.ypma@imaginingscience.eu
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About
Evert Ypma is a conceptual strategist, design researcher and designer working at the intersection of science, institutional transformation and public value.
As founder of Imagining Science, he develops transdisciplinary collaborations between scientists, designers, and artists exploring how knowledge can be created, organised and communicated across disciplinary boundaries. His work encompasses science communication, spatial and digital knowledge environments, and strategy and innovation for university and science organisations.
Drawing on leadership experience in higher education and consultancy, Ypma works with organisational complexity, institutional responsibility and the conditions required for knowledge to become accessible and socially consequential.
He moves between conceptual direction and practical realisation, supporting institutions in reflecting on their changing contexts so they can shape their future with clearer intent.
Focus areas
Throughout his career, Evert Ypma has addressed a broad range of interconnected topics, including:
- Design and strategic management
- Foresight and design-driven innovation
- Organisational identity and culture
- Positioning and representation
- Digital service design
- Virtual and spatial knowledge environments
- Design of public institutions and governance
- Design policy
- Design and trust
- Visual media as a means of conveying knowledge
- Visual culture, Digital image practices, Post-photography
- Transmedia storytelling
- Digital transformation, Digital humanities
Speaker, educator, and advisor
Evert Ypma has a longstanding record of contributing to international design discourse through keynote lectures, executive education and teaching at art and design universities and graduate schools across Switzerland, Europe, Asia, and Australia.