Dr. Gonçalves, M.G.

Milene Gonçalves is assistant professor of Creativity in Product and Service Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Her research interests are creativity, visual thinking, design process and cognition, inspiration, strategic design, framing and reflection.

Academic Background

After being educated as a product designer (Faculdade de Arquictectura, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Milene moved to TU Delft, where she completed a PhD on Design Creativity, on the inspiration process of designers and its influence on design creativity and innovation. Since 2016, she became a tenure tracker assistant professor, researching and teaching on creativity, visual thinking and design processes.

Nowadays, Milene continues her research interests on inspiration and creativity, now in the collaborative context, in product and service design. She is also pursuing the topic of co-evolution of problem and solution, framing and innovation.

Education

2010 – 2016
Ph.D. in Design Creativity, Industrial Design Engineering Faculty, Technical University of Delft
2008 – 2009
Master in Product Design
Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FA-UTL), Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

2003 – 2008
Bachelor in Industrial Design
Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FA-UTL), Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Experience

2016 – present
Assistant Professor of Creativity in Product and Service Design
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
2014 – 2016
Researcher and lecturer
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft

Specialisation/Field of research

Creativity
Creative problem solving
Inspiration
Design Cognition
Design methodology
Design thinking
Visual communication

Lectures and/or coaches students on

SPD Media
SPD Research Projects
Creative Facilitation
Graduation projects
BSc Final Projects
Research elective

Involved in the research project(s):

Inside the black box

Research on the cognitive, social and emotional determinants of the design process and its outcome.

Milene Gonçalves

"If you take the same road everyone else takes... you will get stuck in traffic."