Bas Baccarne
Assistant Professor Design Methodology Imec-MICT-UGent & Design.nexus at Ghent University
Merelbeke, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolBas Baccarne is an assistant professor and sociotechnologist with 11+ years of experience researching and teaching human-centred and inclusive design at Ghent University and imec-MICT. He focuses on urban HCI, living labs and civic technologies, developing and evaluating novel interfaces to address wicked urban challenges from a citizen-centric perspective. Active in long-running collaborations with local governments, SMEs and start-ups, he blends participatory design methods with rapid prototyping to explore crowdsourcing, civic crowdfunding, hackathons and digital citizenship. His work sits at the intersection of design methodology and urban social informatics, bringing empirical rigor from a PhD on collaborative urban innovation into classroom and field projects. Colleagues know him for turning complex socio-technical problems into pragmatic, participatory experiments that reveal hidden participation inequalities and actionable paths to inclusive urban innovation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Communications - New Media & Society, Grootste onderscheiding, Master, Communications - New Media & Society, Grootste onderscheiding at Universiteit GentDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, SOCIAL SCIENCES at Ghent UniversityProfessional Bachelor, Audiovisuele technieken - Geluid, Grote onderscheiding, Professional Bachelor, Audiovisuele technieken - Geluid, Grote onderscheiding at Erasmushogeschool Brussel
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Github Skills (5)
robot6
scanning6
robotics4
r-package3
text-analysis2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
basbaccarne/crowdfunding
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 33 pushes in 27 days
basbaccarne/mict
Dec 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch, 5 issues in 6 years 10 months
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