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Christian Boucharenc is an Associate Professor at the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore. In his academic and professional career as an architect and designer, Professor Boucharenc has immersed successively in French, Finnish, Danish, Japanese and Singaporean culture. He studied architecture in Paris, completing his education by specialising in product design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, at the Royal Danish Academy and subsequently gaining his PhD at the Kobe Design University.
His main teaching expertise is in Design Fundamentals, based on three teaching principles, namely, parameter controls (design variables and constraints, economy of means and time), descriptive dimensions (syntactic, pragmatic and semantic), and finally intuitive approach (no copying, no fixed rules and no imposed forms). In parallel to his teaching, he wrote the book, Design for a Contemporary World, about the pedagogy and practice of Design Fundamentals.