Balder Onarheim

Balder Onarheim is co-founder of CINC, and an Associate Professor in creativity at the Technical University of Denmark. In addition to his courses taught at CINC he has also taught at DTU, CBS and University of British Columbia, as well as lectured at lectured about creativity at numerous other international universities, including Stanford University and University of Cambridge. Balder has a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. During this time his curiosity evolved from army gear to medical equipment. Building on his master thesis 'The Psychology of Design' and experiences with nanotechnology sensors and ambulance aircraft design, he wrote his PhD 'Creativity under Constraints' in collaboration with the Danish medical company Coloplast and Copenhagen Business School. This focused on developing strategies for sustaining creativity in over-constrained domains.