Fernando Secomandi

Tagline:At the interface between centre and periphery.

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About Me

Assistant Professor at Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft.

Vice-Chair of Design Research Society.

Managing/Senior Editor of Designing.

Associate Editor of Journal of Human-Technology Relations.

Director of Justice by Design lab.

Co-lead of Healthy Start Ambition “First 1000 Days.”

My current research investigates designers’ contributions to social justice in emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) through form-giving practices. Specifically, I develop conceptual frameworks for designing technology-mediated human freedom, drawing on the Hegelian concept of mutual recognition.

Education

  • PhD

    from: 2008, until: 2012

    Field of study:DesignSchool:Delft University of TechnologyLocation:Delft, The Netherlands

    Description

    Cum laude

  • Master of Science

    from: 2005, until: 2007

    Field of study:Strategic Product DesignSchool:Delft University of TechnologyLocation:Delft, The Netherlands

    Description

    Cum laude

  • Bachelor

    from: 1998, until: 2003

    Field of study:Industrial DesignSchool:State University of Rio de JaneiroLocation:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Publications

  • Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn

    BookPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingDate:2026
    Authors:
    Fernando SecomandiPeter-Paul Verbeek
    Open access version

  • Design philosophy: Amplifying the unheard

    Journal ArticleDate:2026
    Authors:
    Fernando SecomandiDaniel PortugalVirginia TassinariPhilippe d'Anjou
    Open access version

  • Coerced Recognition through the Service Interface: A Design Ethics Framework for Revealing User Oppression

    Journal ArticlePublisher:Journal of Human-Technology RelationsDate:2025
    Authors:
    Fernando SecomandiFrederick MC Amstel
    Open access version

  • Designing equity: Reflections on structural inequities in research publishing

    Journal ArticlePublisher:DesigningDate:2025
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi
    Open access version

  • Collective embodiment in service interfaces

    Book ChapterPublisher:The Bloomsbury Handbook of Service Design: Plural Perspectives and a Critical Contemporary AgendaDate:2025
    Authors:
    Frederick AmstelFernando Secomandi
    Open access version

  • Systemic oppression in service design

    Book ChapterPublisher:Systemic Service DesignDate:2025
    Authors:
    Frederick MC Van AmstelBibiana O SerpaFernando Secomandi
    Open access version

  • Equipping Designers for Democracy: Mock Trials in Design Education

    Book ChapterPublisher:Design and Democracy: Essays Toward Democratic ImaginationDate:2025
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi
    Open access version

  • Service design as formgiving: Breaking free from the marketing-dominant logic

    Journal ArticlePublisher:Design IssuesDate:2024
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi
    Open access version

  • Service Interfaces in Human-Technology Relations: A Case Study of Self-Tracking Technologies

    Book ChapterPublisher:Postphenomenological Methodologies: New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human RelationshipsDate:2018
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi

  • Digital images and multistability in design practice

    Book ChapterPublisher:Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World RelationsDate:2017
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi

  • Bodies as technology: how can postphenomenologists deal with the matter of human technique

    Book ChapterPublisher:Postphenomenological investigations: Essays on human-technology relationsDate:2015
    Authors:
    Fernando Secomandi

  • Interface design in services: a postphenomenological approach

    Journal ArticlePublisher:Design IssuesDate:2013
    Authors:
    Fernando SecomandiDirk Snelders
    Open access version

  • The object of service design

    Journal ArticlePublisher:Design IssuesDate:2011
    Authors:
    Fernando SecomandiDirk Snelders
    Open access version