Mickey Ackerman

Mickey Ackerman currently serves as director of BIF’s Experience Lab platform.  A professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ackerman has spent decades teaching designers how to define problems clearly and then solve those problems through multidisciplinary teamwork. During his 15 years as head of the RISD industrial design department, Ackerman established a portfolio of sponsored projects where students used their skills to create real-world design solutions for industry leaders such as Intel, Rubbermaid, Frigidaire and General Mills.  Ackerman also established strategic partnerships between RISD and the Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Age Lab and the Brown University School of Engineering.  Ackerman also created partnerships with NASA, the NASA Center for Space Medicine at Yale University and Boston’s Center Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology.

• Overview
• Phase I: Understanding the Current Elder Experience
• Phase II: Active Experimentation
• Team