Marcel Befort Managing Partner / Design Strategy

Strategic implemen­tation of Design

Marcel Befort

Managing Partner
Design Strategy

Dipl. Des. Design Management
Conseil en Design (GD Luxembourg)
Assistant professor for Design Theory, Wuppertal, Germany

Languages: German and English
Phone: +352 27 40 24 97
Sensity Office: Luxembourg

marcel.befort@sensity.eu

Marcel supports companies by implementing design in their organisation. He is a good relator, a strategic thinker and supports your organization with individual knowledge.

He completed his design studies at KISD (University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany) with a specialization in Design Management in 2006. He then moved to Munich and worked for the BMW Group in the area of Brand Management and Corporate Identity for two years. He is an assistant professor and doctoral student in the department of Industrial Design in the field of Design Theory for Methodology, Planning and Strategy since 2009 at the Wuppertal University. A preliminary study »Global Design« related to his doctoral thesis is published on the website of Wuppertal University: Download PDF here

Additionally he studied Organisation and Marketing at Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Wuppertal, related to his doctoral thesis on cultural diversity in design processes. In 2012 he founded Sensity together with Guido Wolff. Marcel is an Alumni of the German Merit Foundation, registered »Conseil en Design« in Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, official councel for Design in Rhineland Palatinate and a jury member of »Luxembourg Design Awards« and a former jury member of »Design Preis Rheinland Pfalz«. In cooperation with yellow-design, Cologne, and as an assistant professor as well as a free consultant he worked for global brands such as BMWMINIRolls-Royce or Deutsche Telekom on research and experience-related projects.