Vera van der Burg

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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands5 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Ph.D. candidate researching Reflective AI
  • Experience in interdisciplinary design and AI
  • Work featured at major design events
Stackforce AI infers this person is a design researcher specializing in AI and creative practices.

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Skills

Core Skills

AiDesign ResearchArtistic ResearchHuman-computer InteractionCritical Design

Other Skills

Design thinkingResearchCreative practicesCeramic practiceMachine learningArtistic practiceAI systemsCritical perspectivesDesign practiceEngelsNederlandsPsychologieManagement

About

I am a designer, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at TU Delft's Designing Intelligence Lab, where I develop Reflective AI: a design practice that treats artificial intelligence as material for creative reflection rather than a tool for automation. My research investigates how training AI models can become a reflective practice, how subjective datasets reveal our own perspectives back to us, and how we might use AI to examine ourselves rather than extract from others. I strive to develop slower, smaller, and more intimate approaches to working with AI in creative practices, and I combine working with AI tools with an active making practice. I hold a bachelor's in neuroscience and a master's from Design Academy Eindhoven. My work encompasses publications, workshops, and installations, featured at Dutch Design Week, Salone del Mobile, and conferences like DIS and DRS. I also make installations, video work, photography, and sculpture, and have developed workshops for students from different art and design schools.

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Ekwc

Artist in Residence / Resident Researcher

Jan 2025Apr 2025 · 3 mos · Ойстервейк · On-site

  • Three-month residency exploring the intersection of AI and ceramic practice. Developed work investigating how machine learning models can be trained on subjective, personal datasets, translating digital outputs into physical clay objects. This research formed a key chapter of my PhD on Reflective AI.
AICeramic practiceMachine learningArtistic research

Sorbonne université

Visiting researcher / artistic researcher

Apr 2024Nov 2024 · 7 mos · Parijs

  • Visiting researcher at ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique) in Baptiste Caramiaux's team investigating the intersection of human-computer interaction and artistic practice. Contributed to research on how AI systems can support reflection rather than optimization in creative contexts.
Human-computer interactionArtistic practiceAI systemsArtistic research

Nieuwe instituut

Researcher in Residence

Feb 2024Sep 2024 · 7 mos · Роттердам

  • Research residency in Nieuwe Instituut's -1 program, exploring critical perspectives on AI and design practice.
Critical perspectivesAIDesign practiceCritical design

Tu delft | industrial design engineering

PhD Candidate

Nov 2020Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Делфт

  • This five-year research position investigates how designers can use AI as a material for reflection rather than automation. Through five practice-based projects, including collaborative work with professional designers, workshops with design students, and a three-month ceramic residency, I developed Reflective AI: a design practice where training AI on personal, subjective data becomes a way of examining your own ways of seeing. The thesis, titled The Material Gaze: Reflective AI as a Design Practice, will be defended in 2026.
AIDesign thinkingResearchCreative practicesDesign research

Design academy eindhoven

Coördinator Master department Contextual Design

Sep 2019Feb 2020 · 5 mos · Eindhoven

Aequi - evaluatiebureau voor het hoger onderwijs

Pannellid Accreditaties Hoger Onderwijs

Jul 2019Mar 2020 · 8 mos

Education

Design Academy Eindhoven

Master of Fine Arts & Design - MFAD — Contextual Design

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Utrecht University

BSc — Liberal Arts & Sciences - Cognitive Biological Neuropsychology

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam

VWO — C&M/E&M

Jan 2005Jan 2011

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