Michael Krohn

Background

About Michael Krohn

With more than 25 years international design experience, Michael Krohn is a Professor for Design at the Zurich University of the Arts and Head of the Center for Sustainability. As a trained industrial designer, with a strong technical and entrepreneurial background, he focuses on design strategy, design research, crossdisciplinary innovation, and application of future solutions for a broad range of sectors. Parallel to that, he runs as partner the Zurich based design agency FORMPOL. Clients are served with experience based and solution oriented design processes - from innovation to realization. This leads to pleasing, user centered, and inventive results, with change maker potential. Various industry- and service sectors benefit from case based design thinking workshops, highlighting the "what","for whom" and "how" questions. This results in convincing creative concepts and striking design solutions, focusing on succesfull implementability for futures markets. His broad network, especially in Europa and Asia, offer a global perspective on markets, sourcing and distribution.