Beyond Human Centred Design
COVID19 has given the world the time to rest, and the opportunity for us to rethink the way we live. It has also revealed how inseparable we are with the natural world.…
Nina Stegeman
Emerging new rituals at STBY
In times of uncertainty people have a greater need for rituals, anthropologists have long observed. Covid-19 drastically changed the way we live and work around…
Our latest publication: Explorers
Lockdown has been tough in many ways, but it has also allowed us to put our heads down and pull together our latest publication, Explorers: Thoughts on Mapping in Design…
Speculative design with MSF
In collaboration with our Indian REACH partner Quicksand, we helped Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to rethink their role as a global organisation within the future…
Update on the Clean Energy Challenge
The Clean Energy Challenge by What Design Can Do called on start-ups, designers and students from all over the world to rethink how we produce, distribute and use …
Farmers’ perspectives on water and soil management
STBY was asked to carry out an exploratory research to better understand the perspectives of farmers working in water catchment areas on the management of water …
GOOD19: a different type of gathering
People interested in the transformative power of design research around the world gathered at the GOOD19 Conference in Londen on the 27th of July. GOOD19 was the …
Making do and getting by with the climate
More and more members of Spring House in Amsterdam are involved in climate related projects. Does their increasing knowledge about the climate influence their …
Paper: Transformative Learning as Impact in Social Innovation
Measurable impact is an often expected and required outcome of innovation programs, and yet is particularly challenging for trying to understand social impact.…
Discovering new opportunities for financial services
STBY was asked by a Dutch financial institution to carry out design research to support the creation of new service concepts in relation to housing. Our exploratory…
Paper: Learning and practicing in service design
At the ServDes2018 in Milan, the global academic Service Design conference, Bas Raijmakers was invited to be Chair of the Learning & Practicing track, with …
Paper: Imagining speculative care and support futures
MyFutures was a 2-year academic-public-private project (2016-2018) to create services and tools that take the future thinking and making skills of designers …