Henri Baudet Institute

The ‘Henri Baudet Institute’, founded in 2003, is a centre for design historical research and consultancy, operating from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (Delft University of Technology).

The Institute is centred around the faculty’s unique collection of historical consumer products, and is named after Prof. Dr. Henri (‘Han’) Baudet, a pioneer in design history, who was affiliated with the faculty from 1965 to 1987.

The activities of the institute are intended to promote the scientific study of design history from a explicitly multidisciplinary point of view, aimed at the integration of socio-economic, cultural, technological, and art historical approaches. In that respect the institute hopes to contribute, not only to the development of the discipline design history itself, but also to the theory and practice of the design discipline proper.