Jan Albert Eckert PhD is a design researcher, lifelong learning expert and author based in Switzerland. He is the founder of hortopia.org—a regenerative business scaffold aimed at prototyping better human-planetary relationships.
He has held various positions in the field of design. He was the Head of the Living Lab at the Swiss Center for Design and Health, Head of the Design Unit at the University of Gothenburg, Full Professor and Head of the Master’s Programmes in Design at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Senior Researcher at Lucerne’s Competence Center for Typology & Planning in Architecture, Senior Strategy Consultant at Mint Architecture in Zürich, and worked as an Interior Architect in both Switzerland and Germany.
He has a PhD in Design Sciences from IUAV University of Venice and an international Master’s Degree in Interior Architectural Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, the Edinburgh College of Art, and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Before that, he studied Interior Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
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