Encouraging Speculation in Design Research
For a client in the technology sector who wanted to look 3-5 years ahead, we recently teamed up with design and research studio Superflux to look at how we could encourage…
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How to thrive in the next economy
For the third time STBY will be organising the Strategic Creativity Book Club. This is the idea: read a book and join us in the Spring House library to enjoy the ongoing…
Prototyping helps organisations forward
Many innovative companies can struggle with a ‘meeting culture’ where everyone has a say – it can lead to slow processes with little progress. There is always…
Usign ‘designerly’ ways to think about care
Policy changes, ageing society, rising costs and digitisation… these are just a few of the challenges the healthcare sector faces today. As the complexity of the…
Workshop ‘Ideation Techniques’ March 29
On 29 March 2016, the Dutch chapter of the Service Design Network, of which STBY is one of the active core members, is organising an evening around Ideation techniques.…
You gotta know the rules in order to break them
Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam is hosting a series of evenings wherein presentations and discussions are organised around the topic: “Skills for the next economy”.…
How can cities and refugees adapt to each other?
What can design do to improve the lives of urban refugees? This is the starting point of the “What Design Can Do Challenge”, a challenge aimed at creatives all over …
What STBY can learn from the Eames studio
Visiting the Eames exhibition at the Barbican in London gave some nice inspiration for STBY work. We can learn from the Eames studio, for our efforts to communicate…
Designing ‘collaborative encounters’
STBY hosted a second edition of the book club, featuring Ezio Manzini’s ‘Design, When Everybody Designs’. In this book the author captures 30 years of experience…
Design tools for design thinking
STBY has been involved in the creation of toolkits for several clients, in sectors from education to international development to design. Recently we have finished…
Thinking about Things
Every January, we’re flooded with trend lists and predictions. This year, we learn that the Internet of Things will take off. Again.
The Internet of Things has had…
Design & The City workshop: The experience of cyclists when bicycle parking in smart cities
We will set up a workshop at the conference of Design & the City on 22 april 2016, about bicycle parking in smart cities.
Using insights from previous design research…