
Mark Vanderbeeken, Contributing Editor
Mark Vanderbeeken is one of four founding partners of the young and dynamic international experience design consultancy Experientia, based in Turin, Italy.
Mark, who worked in Italy, Denmark, the USA and Belgium, is a specialist in visioning, identity development and strategic communications.
He was communications manager of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Ivrea, Italy), European communications coordinator for the World Wide Fund for Nature (or WWF, Copenhagen, Denmark), marketing director of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (New York, USA), and chief press officer of Antwerp 93, Cultural Capital of Europe (Antwerp, Belgium).
He is the author of Experientia.s successful experience design blog Putting People First, set up a professional blog on e-democracy, and writes for Core77, the well-known USA-based online design magazine.
He studied visual and cognitive psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and obtained a Masters Degree in cognitive psychology at Columbia University, New York.