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 …
Nina Stegeman
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 …
Can a robot become your best friend?
There is no escape: our futures will be more and more digitalised. What position are you taking towards the fast growing digital world we live in? While technology…
GOOD is coming to London again!
As the founder and partner of REACH network, STBY is happy to announce that following on the success of previous related events around the world, GOOD is coming to …
STBY case study on experiencefellow.com
A STBY case study is published on the website of ExperienceFellow. STBY used the mobile ethnography tool ExperienceFellow in order to get a better understanding…
Changing the role of plastic in our daily lives
Most people living in today’s society find it hard to go without the use of plastic, or even to reduce their use of plastic. Various media have recently shed a spotlight…