Dr. Bendor, R.

Roy Bendor is Assistant Professor of Critical Design in the department of Human-Centered Design. His research explores the social and political contexts of design, and more specifically, the capacity of design to disclose alternative social, political and environmental futures. Current research interests also include sustainability and regenerative design; participatory design of urban intelligent systems; sociotechnical imaginaries and the radical imagination; and critical future literacies.

Academic Background

Roy’s academic background is interdisciplinary and includes media studies, philosophy of technology, and environmental communication. He completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, a postdoc at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and joined the faculty in 2016. In addition to his research and teaching at TUD, Roy is also a Fellow of the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University, and former editor of the Sustainability in (inter)Action forum in the ACM’s Interactions magazine.

Find out more about him on his website (link under profile picture).

Education

2007–2014
PhD, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada
2004–2006
MA, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1997–2001
BA (magna cum lauda), Philosophy and Film Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Experience

2016
Assistant Professor, the faculty of IDE, TU Delft
2014–2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada
2014–2016
Board Member, Civic Renewal Lab, Vancouver, Canada
2013–2016
Research Associate, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada
2010–2015
Instructor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Specialisation / field of research

Design futures
Speculative design
Critical AI
Smart cities
Sustainability
Regenerative design
Civic media
Critical theory
Philosophy of technology

Involved in the research project(s):

DCODE

Alternative Imaginaries for the Smart City

Books

Interactive Media for Sustainability

Roy Bendor
ISBN: 978 33 1970 383 1

Published in 2018