J.S. Love

Jeff Love is assistant professor of digital design history and cultural heritage at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering within the KInD (Knowledge Intelligence Design) group. He studies and teaches innovative ways to explore & interpret historical phenomena and embedding historical knowledge in design.

Academic Background

Jeff maintains a number of research interests around the themes of culture, digitalization and personalization. For the past several years he has been modelling and building bespoke scholarly resources within the digital humanities, primarily systems aiding people in exploring specific electronic collections of heritage data and knowledge, including the CuratorBot with Heng Gu as part of the Future Libraries Lab and a three-year grant (2014-2017) from the Swedish Research Council to produce a hybrid reference work on historical law. Currently he is looking to better understand how socio-historical narratives are discovered, understood and shaped in a digital society. One active goal of his work is devising novel methods to incorporate complex historical contexts into current and future social planning. He focuses on design for the long term by embedding cultural values into everyday systems as well as creative future visions in the form of speculative fictions.

For six years Jeff served as Data Steward for the IDE faculty, a sounding board for discussions relating to research data practices in design, such as transparency in data usage and dissemination strategies for collected materials. He advocates open and value-driven design and embeds these principles in the course modules he creates and teaches, which include the BSc course on Data as a Design Material and workshops on R for Social Scientists.

Since early 2021 Jeff has been operational lead of the Future Libraries Lab where he investigates the ways people produce and interact with digitized cultural artifacts: 3D scans, maps and especially texts. He is also part of the steering group of the emerging Delft Digital Humanities group whose members explore the intersections of culture, history and technology. Students interested in working on design for cultural heritage, narratives/storytelling or designing with data are heartily welcome to get in touch.
 

Education

• 2012
  PhD, ASNC, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
• 2008
  MSLIS, Library Science, University of Illinois
• 2007
  MA, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois

Experience

• 2024-
  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
• 2022-2024
  Research Fellow, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
• 2018-2024
  Data Steward, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
• 2017
  Data Librarian, Stockholm University
• 2014-2017
  Research Editor of the digital Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
• 2012-2014
  Postdoc, Institute for Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen

For further details about my publications, projects I've supervised, etc., see my personal webpage: https://thorkellmoon.github.io/portfolio/