Anthropologist and futurist.Founder of "Users Matter" (user-centered innovation agency), co-founder of the "Making Tomorrow" collective (foresight through design).
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Founder & ManagerUsers Matter May 2016 - PresentNamur Area, BelgiumWe are a User Centric research and development agency. We help you innovate meaningfully.Human, systemic, technological or resilient, innovation is multiform. Uses are the keystone that makes the convergence of these issues possible.We intervene when your innovation project requires a demanding and unique approach. To invent a new offering, rethink a range or market segment, test and develop an original concept, improve a service for citizens. And many other reasons as well. -
Founding MemberCollectif Making Tomorrow Jun 2017 - PresentParis, Nantes, NamurWe are a bunch of designers, makers, anthropologists, futurists and economists that love playing with the future(s)Because what is going to happen is never really new, but rarely what we expect, we help organizations imagine and prototype their future in order to test its frontiers. And be ready, as of tomorrow.We believe that popular culture’s imaginings are a unique source of inspiration. We use games and fast prototyping to produce fiction that we confront with real life to detect the coming breakthroughs. We believe that popular culture’s imaginings are a unique source of inspiration. We use games and fast prototyping to produce fiction that we confront with real life to detect the coming breakthroughs. -
Lecturer "Anthroplogy & Design" And "Test & Explore Workshop"Ecole Nationale Des Arts Visuels De La Cambre Jan 2016 - PresentRégion De Bruxelles, BelgiqueTeaching “from ergonomics to ethnography of uses” ; “test & explore tools” and "on-site design sprint" to industrial design students (2nd and 3rd year) -
Part-Time Professor, “Consumer Needs” And “Prototyping”Audencia Sep 2012 - Nov 2023Région De Nantes, FranceMaster's courses specialized in the field of "User needs" (ethnographic approaches and co-design tools) and "prototyping" (user tests and development of survey tools); thesis supervision. -
Part-Time Professor “Anthropology & Design”Pôle Supérieur De Design Villefontaine Sep 2011 - Jun 2022Région De Grenoble, FranceTeaching “design anthropology” methods and running ethnographic workshops in an interactive product design approach. Course for DSAA-master students in interactive & product design. -
Part Time Teacher "Anthroplogy For Innovation"Ecv Digital Sep 2015 - May 2017Région De Paris, FranceTeaching and field supervision on the practice of ethnography in a user-centered design approach. Courses for UX master students. -
Senior ConsultantThe Creativists May 2015 - Jun 2016Région De Paris, FranceExpert in consumer behavior.Project management of user-centered and foresight innovation.Leader of the R&D on user-centered innovation methods
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Anthropologist - Innovation Project Manager At Groupe SebGroupe Seb Aug 2011 - Apr 2015Selongey (21, France)Anthropologist innovation project leader in the "Kitchen Electrics" Business Unit of Groupe Seb. Implementation, monitoring and analysis of ethnographic work. Transformation of this material into concepts adapted to cultural constraints and to the identification of criteria for improvement and adaptation of existing equipment to local practice (including Brazil, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Turkey, ...).Missions are split between project management in the short term and long term work about cross-use categories and identification of segments of the population. -
Post-Doctoral FellowInstitut Paul Bocuse Dec 2009 - Aug 2011EcullyEthnographic studies of professionnal and domestic cooking in natural and semi-eperimental settings. Integration of ethnographic material into concepts (numeric world into the kitchen), co-conception and test of prototypes by users. -
Scientific ResearcherLyfe Institute (Formerly Institut Paul Bocuse) Jun 2008 - May 20093 missions of setting up, monitoring and carrying out ethnographic studies in the field of professional and domestic practice of culinary activity. These missions contributed to the integration of the digital issue in cooking within the Seb group -
Research Assistant ProfessorNice Sophia Antipolis University (Member Of Université Côte D'Azur) Nov 2003 - Jun 2007Région De Nice, FranceTeaching (TD, TP, lectures) and supervision of student work in the field of sociology and general anthropology. Specific focus on everyday ethnography and cognitive approaches to culture
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Olivier Wathelet attended Université De Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Université De Montréal, Université Libre De Bruxelles.
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