About
Marieke Van Camp (1991) graduated in Product Development at the Faculty of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2014. Following her master’s degree, she pursued a PhD within the same faculty, where she also acted as a design coach for bachelor and master’s students in the User Experience project and Interaction Design project. Her research focused on exploring and developing new interaction possibilities for digital products, primarily toys, through prototyping and research through design. The overarching goal of her doctoral research was to create more compelling user experiences in digital products by seemingly blurring the boundary between the physical and digital worlds.
After completing her PhD in 2022, she joined the AI lab at the Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Here she was responsible for the further integration of artificial intelligence into various bachelor’s degree programs, aiming to make the sometimes complex and abstract concepts related to AI more accessible to non-IT students.
She currently works for FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute, where she manages a small team of developers and designers to develop interactive exhibits that make AI, data and robotics research accessible and engaging for diverse audiences. Her goal is to help people understand often complex, theoretical and abstract research concepts through self-explanatory demonstrators.