August 27, 2025
Lorenz Herfurth
Professeur
Department
Département de design
Degrees
Ph.D. Design (Lancaster University), M.A. Design Management and Policy (Lancaster University), B.A. Industrial Design (Burg Giebichenstein)
Research axe
- Health Technologies
Research areas
- Service design
- Collaborative design
- Healthcare design
- Transformation design
- Organizational learning
- Organization studies
- Design and entrepreneurship
- Design innovation
- Community-centered design
- Social design
- Studio pedagogy
Publications
- Lorenz Herfurth, Kirsty Sinclair. 2017-10-13 « FutureGov and the Glasgow School of Art - A research experiment ». Medium
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2023 « The dynamics of practice and their relevance for the development of an open studio culture in design education ». Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education vol. 22 , nº 1. p. 89-106
- Lorenz Herfurth, Leon Cruickshank. 2011 « Challenging traditional KT - Co-designing innovative approaches to Knowledge Exchange ». Communication lors de la conférence : IKT International Conference on Challenges for Knowledge Transfer: A Time for Change (Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Apr. 28-May 01, 2011)
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2010 « Experiencing Nets ». Communication lors de la conférence : ESRC Festival of Social Science: Entrepreneurial networks: Impact and business growth (Lancaster, UK, Mar. 12-21, 2010)
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2024 « Exploring the role of design for organizational learning in community interactions ». DRS Conference Boston: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination (Boston, MA, USA, June 23-28, 2024) Design Research Society
- Lorenz Herfurth, Jérôme Elissalde. 2021 « Knowledge as common good - design and the changing frameworks for collaboration between institutions and communities ». Design as Common Good / Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values: Swiss Design Network Symposium: Conference Proceedings (Virtual, Mar. 25-26, 2021) SUPSI, HSLU, swissdesignnetwork
- Lorenz Herfurth, Kirsty Sinclair. 2018 « From user-centred to stakeholder-oriented service design: Implications for the role of service designers and their education based on an example from the public sector ». ServDes 2018: Proof of Concept (Milano, Italy, June 18-20, 2018) Politechnico di Milano
- Emma Murphy, Donald MacLean, Lorenz Herfurth. 2015 « The co-design of organisational artefacts and their role in articulating the aesthetics of organisational culture ». EGOS Conference (Athens , Greece, July 02-04, 2015)
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2014 « Organisations as artefact – a design inquiry into the social activities that shape organisations ». British Academy of Management Conference (BAM) (Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 09-11, 2014)
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2013 « Shaping the socially defined artefact: a design perspective ». Participatory Innovation Conference (Lahti, Finland, June 18-20, 2013) Lappeenranta University of Technology
- L. Herfurth, E. Murphy. 2012 « Participatory designing in organisations ». Participatory Innovation Conference (Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 12-14, 2012)
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2009 « The use of design thinking to enable human centred innovation within the organisation ». IASDR 2009 Rigor and Relevance in Design (Seoul, Korea, Oct. 18-22, 2009) Korean Society of Design Science
- Leon Cruickshank, Roger Whitham, Lorenz Herfurth. 2011 « Creative IDEAS ». : Imagination Lancaster. 43 p.
- Leon Cruickshank, Lorenz Herfurth, Roger Whitham. 2010 « Beyond networking: Knowledge, Exchange and Innovation ». : IDEAS at Daresbury. 78 p.
- Lorenz Herfurth. 2016 « Organisations as artefacts – an inquiry into hidden design activities within situated organisational contexts ». Mémoire de maîtrise. Lancaster, UK, Lancaster University.
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