Milene Gonçalves is an associate professor of Design Creativity, at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands. She holds a MSc degree in Product Design from FAUL (Lisbon, Portugal) and a PhD in Design Creativity from TU Delft, on the inspiration process of designers and its influence on design creativity. 

For more than 15 years, Milene has been investigating creativity, creative confidence, design processes, reflection and framing, co-creation and participation, visual thinking and other design representations and how they support the development of creative ideas. 

Milene is the director of the Delft Design Lab Connected Creativity, a platform where research, education and industry come together to explore the transdisciplinary value that creativity can bring to tackle complex issues.

research interest

• Design creativity
• Creative confidence
• Design processes 
• Co-creation and participation