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Christophe Gaubert is an Associate Professor, and Director of the Design Incubation Centre at the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ting with the Taiwanese Interior Designer Hueiting Chang. He started his career within famous design studios such as Governor (Jean-Michel Wilmotte) or Tim Thom (Thomson Design Team under the art direction of Philippe Starck) then worked for major companies (Alcatel, EDF, Philips, Christian Dior, Lanvin, Guerlain) and European industrial companies (Erreti, Camiva).
Developing a global approach to design, his care goes as much to the punctual conception of products, as to broader considerations for project strategies inside companies, dedicating an important part to the prospective research and the methodic analysis of phenomenons which generate new kinds of uses and design opportunities. With Studio Ting, he participated many architecture projects, corporate identities and museography in Taiwan, for National Taiwan Museum which opened in November 2017 as a major permanent exhibition.
He was teaching design in top-ranked french schools, particularly in ENSCI–Les Ateliers in Paris for over 15 years where he created the Design Fiction Studio and developed a particular approach dedicated to breakthrough innovation and visionary design. His teaching leads the students to fully explore the problematics to identify impactful Design opportunities, more than just solving short-term problems. He believes in Design as a new kind of philosophy for training visionary people where designers are able to analyse and anticipate societal, cultural and technological mutations.