Costas Bissas co-tutors product design Studios III, V & VI at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. He holds an MA in Industrial Design from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London and is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece.

A design consultant based in Greece, his research interests lie between design, technology, wellbeing and culture, focusing on the use of design as a creative tool for the development of innovative products and services.

He has collaborated with companies and cultural organizations such as DeBalie Centre for Culture & Politics in Amsterdam, FutureEverything in Liverpool, the Barbican Centre in London, the SENSEable city Laboratory of MIT in Boston and the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens. He organizes workshops to develop creative thinking for children and adults alike and designs products for local batch production. He holds the position of Innovation Methodologies Strategist at Found.ation and often organizes Hebocon Athens tournaments, the robot-sumo competitions for the technically ungifted, where the winner might not always be the best!

His work has been acclaimed by the European Innovative Games Award, the Greek Graphic Design & Communication Awards, Mikser Festival of Creativity & Innovation and Athens Startup Weekend Sustainability.

Although he has lived 2.5 years next to the Loch Ness, he never managed to locate the monster.

Research Interests

• Creative thinking & idea generation
• User Research
• Prototyping
• User feedback
• Critical Design
• Critical Making