Ole B. Jensen

Ole B. Jensen is professor of urban theory and urban design at Aalborg University. He holds a bachelors degree in political science, a masters degree in sociology, a phd degree in planning, and a higher doctorate degree (Dr. Techn.) in mobility. His research is related to human-spatial relationships with a particular focus on human mobility within urban infrastructural landscapes, systems, and technologies. His research has an interdisciplinary focus, often with the use of ethnographical method and always with the aim of linking empirical and situated studies with conceptual and theoretical work. In his research focus is often on social exclusion and mobility injustice. Within that context the normative underpinnings of design and the ways in which design is complicit in shaping injustice and exclusionary human conditions is of interest. But also the potential of design to be a major societal transformative force. Researching design’s role for the human condition is the foundational question. He is a member of the Bevica Foundation Research Network where his interest in Universal Design and critical disability studies is anchored.