Making bicycle parking easier and faster
STBY helped the city of Amsterdam and Dutch Rail to make the use of indoor bicycle parking facilities more efficient and convenient through the use of new technology.…
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Empathic Conversations
In this article, we explore our approach to enabling empathic conversations in our design research, between researchers and participants and among the wider client…
Violence Against Femininity – Can Design Deconstruct Cultural Behaviours?
Violence against women is the quintessential wicked problem: seemingly intractable, culturally specific, and as old as humanity itself. What Design Can Do has…
Participatory Painting: A Design Research Method?
The MEDIATIONS Conference took place at the RCA in London, marking the close of the TRADERS project (short for ‘Training Art and Design Researchers for Participation…
How can design help to address violence against women? – Join STBY at What Design Can Do Sao Paulo
The What Design Can Do 2016 conference in São Paulo is coming up on 13-14 December. As the research partner of WDCD, STBY was asked to lead a breakout session exploring…
Using Open Data for Design Research
I attended a workshop at the Open Data Institute in Shoreditch, an organisation with the important mission “to connect, equip and inspire people around the world…
Design for Europe: Powering Social Innovation
The Design for Europe conference is the main way the European Commission implements its Action Plan for Design-driven Innovation. STBY participated in a session…
Service Design Global Conference 2016
On October 27th-28th, service designers from around the world gathered for the 9th Service Design Global Conference in Amsterdam, returning to the city where the…
Celebration and contemplation at the Design & Emotion Conference
This year’s Design & Emotion conference at Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger was a great opportunity to pause for “Celebration & Contemplation” – …
Creating the Future of Public Transportation
How can we learn from and be inspired by innovators in the field of mobility? This is what the core members of the program ‘The Future of Public Transport’ of the Ministry…
Designing for a world where age does not matter
How can we develop products and services for a world in which age does not matter? Intergenerational design was a buzz phrase at the recent Age Does Not Matter festival…
Video of STBY presentation at What Design Can Do refugee challenge
At the WDCD Live 2016 event in Amsterdam on 30 June and 1 July 2016, Marie de Vos and Geke van Dijk of STBY gave a presentation of STBY’s work as research…