Jacob Voorthuis (1960) lectures in the philosophy of the built environment as well as architecture and the arts at the Technical University of Eindhoven. With a special interest in the relationship between the spatial practice of society and design, his current research involves an ontology of use, the attempt to put a new conception of use and the useful at the very centre of design thinking.He has lectured widely in Europe and the Americas and works as a critic and consultant at he concept stage of the design process.

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