DesignLab University of Twente has been establishing new connections since 2014: students and researchers joining forces with citizens, governments and the industry,to design opportunities for challenges within and beyond the borders of health, climate and safety. When working with and at DesignLab, different worldviews are equally heard, people become empowered and first tangible steps are made.Dear Future us: let’s feel, think and act when it comes to today’s challenges and potentially those of our next generations.
DesignLab congratulates the community for wanting to be, becoming and being the change makers of tomorrow at DesignLab for 10 years now!We could design a birthday card with our age and write about all the things that we are proud of, but the experimental and collaborative ecosystem we are as DesignLab, we asked the community of founders, UT colleagues, researchers, DreamTeam students and partners outside University of Twente to telltheirmeaningful story.We have asked them to put into words what they are most proud of, when thinking about projects and initiatives in the context of DesignLab. They also shared wishes for our future: actions we should take to co-shape the futures we want to live in. Enjoy the content!
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2024
Sep 2024
Anke de Koning | Firstline Support
Anke's perfect day in DesignLab is when she sees students working together, prototyping, exchanging ideas and more.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Arjen van Assem | MSc Industrial Design Engineering and DreamTeam family member
Arjen tells us about a project he did in collaboration with the National Police: The future implementation of police robotics, using a societal-friendly approach, by considering different points of view.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Barend van der Meulen | Advisory board member Citizen Science Hub Twente
Barend states that we should find new ways to involve citizens in design, knowledge production, research and teaching, as there is so much knowledgein society, that cannot be created at our universities.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Cristina Zaga | Founder Responsible Futuring
Cristina has done a lot as a researcher at DesignLab. She is particularly proud of the development of the Responsible Futuring approach, that she did together with the DesignLab team.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Desirée van Dun | Co-coordinator Master-Insert & Research Fellow, Faculty BMS
Desirée explains how the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert 'Shaping Responsible Futures' helped Green Hub Twente to further sustain changes within the UT.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
DreamTeam family | Daffa, Arash, Roussi, Thijs and Merlijn
DreamTeamers highlight the DesignLab Brew podcast, Batavierenrace, DesignLab Museum in the facility,Wall of Names, and how to keep the community at DesignLab rocking.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
DreamTeam family | Jorik, Riki, Elisa, Pablo and Leon
DreamTeamers prove that DesignLab is truly a student-driven space: Makers Night, Skill Booster, Tosti Talks, Lightbulb chats, Sustainability and a cardboard laser cutting project.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
DreamTeam family | Adorian, Alexandru and Zalfa
DreamTeamers highlight some ofUTs showcases at Dutch Design Week: The Mini Design Ride, Lightbox (part of 'Connecting Worlds for a Better Future') and 'Design for Transition - What's on your menu?' (AKA 'The Cookery').
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Edo de Wolf | MSc Interaction Technology and DreamTeam family member
Former DreamTeam project coordinator Edo explains what was needed to realise theNeura Automata (AKA 'The EyeCatcher') at TechMed Centre: a gigantic art installation,unveiled by His MajestyKing Willem-Alexander.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Emiel Harmsen | MSc Interaction Technology and Dreamteam Family member
DreamTeam family members Emiel and Jorik describe what it was like to build an art installation, exhibited during the Amsterdam Light Festival. It was witnessed by a lot of Amsterdam citizens and tourists!
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Eric Wolkotte | ChallengeLAB Twente
In the ChallengeLAB Twente project, creative makers and thinkers at ROC van Twente, Saxion, AKI ArtEZ and University of Twente work togetherto tackle societal challenges for the Twente Region.
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Erik Analbers | Technician DesignLab
Erik likes to contribute to the student's goals in the workshops at DesignLab facility. He inspires students to teach others new skills in the workshops.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Ferenc van Damme | Innovator Province of Overijssel
Ferenc illustrates that together we are looking at ways to make better use of the powers in society. Let's learn from each other, in the real world. He gives an example ofthe transformation in the village of Boekelo.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Funda Atun | DesignLab Research Fellow, Faculty ITC
Funda talks aboutthe Rising Water, Safer Shores board game, and the'Civic and Citizen Science' projectthat was co-funded by the Province of Overijssel and part of Citizen Science Hub Twente.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Henrietta Lukács | MSc Public Administration and DreamTeam family member
In addition to being a DreamTeam coordinator Operations, Henrietta co-developed the SES tool, enabling multi-stakeholder dialogues. Part of RRI2SCALE.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Humera Fasihuddin | Co-director University Innovation Fellows
Humera states that DesignLab is an important part of the University Innovation Fellows ecosystem. She also thinks that DesignLab has been made possible because University of Twente values interdisciplinary education.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Jamila Blokzijl | Connecting Worlds for a Better Future
'Connecting Worlds for a Better Future' started with a need for a UT narrative at DDW, and has become an interactive and accessible experience that inspires people to reflect on their potential impact and that of others, on possible futures.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Janine Swaak | Safety Region
If Janine would mention one project, it was the one that had a series of workshops, addressing possible futures of the Medical Assistance Organisation in the Region (GHOR), part of the safety regions in the Netherlands.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Javier Martinez | DesignLab Research Fellow, Faculty ITC
Javier and Funda are both Research Fellows who collaborated with DesignLab, to further develop the Rising Water, Safer Shores board game. They co-designed this board game together with children in India and the Netherlands.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Job van Dongen | Industrial Design Engineer and DreamTeam family member
Job was there from the very beginning, whenthe DesignLab facility was built in the Gallery. 10 years later, he went back to DesignLab and reflected on his time here. What did he learn, that he can still apply today?
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Joost Kuiper | Policy advisor Province of Overijssel
The Province and DesignLab have been partners within projects for quite some time. Horizon-2020 projectRRI2SCALE and Transforming of policy are two examples, to increase societal impact of research and to give various actors a voice.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Julieta Matos Castaño | Researcher and project lead Responsible Futuring
When you apply to a trajectory within DesignLab academy, Julieta might present to you some inspiring examples within the topics of smart cities and sustainability transitions. She was also part of the research team of Responsible Smart cities.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Klaasjan Visscher | Scientific co-director DesignLab
Klaasjan mentions educational innovation and the impact the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert 'Shaping Responsible Futuring'makes on students and their stakeholders. The programme also received the Dutch Higher Education Award!
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Kris Pals | Project manager DesignLab
Kris highlights theSenior Maker Movement, an assignment from ActiZ. Elderly people were introduced to maker spaces and how these could help to improve their daily lives. It also generated new insights in how elderly peopleperceive it.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Leticia Britos Cavagnaro | Adjunct professor Stanford University
Leticia's words show that it is noticable that students are making the DesignLab, which is similar to the UIF programme at Stanford d.school. These two are proud to be partners, also within the Faculty Innovation Fellows network.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Lowie te Dorsthorst | Innovation manager Sensire
Healthcare organisation Sensire had been a stakeholder for the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert 'Shaping Responsible Futures'. Lowie gained new ideas based on the different perspectives presentedin'Who cares in the future?'
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Maartje Huinink | Moderator Responsible Futuring and project lead DesignLab Academy
TheResponsible Futuring approachis used within the DesignLab Academy. It enables participants from different backgrounds to work together on complex challenges, to gain new insights and to look at the challenge in unexpected ways.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Magdalena Ionescu | Visiting Researcher Tokyo, Japan
Magdalena spent time at DesignLab to get to know more about transdisciplinary innovation. During the UIF meet-up, one of the activities she organised was a walk-shop, where people relied on others and learned to reflect on how they feel about it.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Marcos Montero Grande | MSc Industrial Design Engineering and DreamTeam family member
Marcos co-designed a renewed, high fidelity prototype of theDesign Your Life-toolkit, enabling young autistic adults to design, create and adapt their own supportive environment, promoting independence and autonomy in everyday life.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Mascha van der Voort | Scientific co-director DesignLab
Maschaillustrates how the cleaning industry could act when it wants to embed technology in their business process: bring all the different parties involved, employees-managers-employers, and share insights on this point.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Mats van Dalen | Transdisciplinary Master-Insert 'Shaping Responsible Futures'
Mats tells us about students at the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert 'Shaping Responsible Futures', who go beyond learning skills and theories, and learn more about themselves and the world around them.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Maya van den Berg | Program manager DesignLab
RRI2SCALE was the first European project DesignLab contributed to, together with the Province of Overijssel. The DreamTeam was also involved in this collaboration: the students developed the Scenario Exploration System-tool.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Michael Nagenborg | Designlab Research Fellows, Faculty BMS
DesignLab supports Research Fellows who conduct new research that connects with our focus. Example: the creation of an interface that allows researchers and the public to interact with data from the MX3D bridgein Amsterdam.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Miriam Iliohan | Co-founder and manager DesignLab
Miriam is convinced that a combination of ingredients makes DesignLab whole. From small experiments with external organisations to partnerships with educational institutes worldwide.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Pep Canyelles Pericàs | DesignLab Research Fellow, Faculty EEMCS
Research Fellows of the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) group were supported in further development ofan automated monitoring system, that distinguishes wound types and monitors the healing process over time.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Petar Vučković | MSc Electrical Engineering and DreamTeam family member
DreamTeam students prove commitment to meeting sustainability goals on aEU-level and SDG-level. They even received a Green Certificate from Green Hub Twente for making sustainable efforts during the UIF Meet up in 2024!
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Peter Paul Verbeek | Co-founder DesignLab
Two magic ingredients of DesignLab according to Peter-Paul: the freedom that academics received to start something new, and: students being the foundation of what we do. The PHTR-conference: one of many DesignLab projects he is proud of.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Roy van Zijl | Former EngD candidate DesignLab
Roy emphasises the importance of connecting academic and non-academic stakeholders and using each other's knowledge, skills and lived experiences to help make lives easier.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Sabine Wildevuur | Fourth Generation University
Thanks to INCENTIVE, four European expertise centres within citizen science strengthen connections between science and society, which is essential to deal with the big challenges we are facing. But this is just one of many projects!
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Sami Auji | MSc Industrial Design Engineering and DreamTeam family member
Together with the Province of Overijssel, Sami and his fellow DreamTeamers worked on a tool to simplify the difficult context of the energy vision for 2050. For this, they used the Responsible Futuring approach.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Saskia Oude Hilbert | Project leader Marketing & Communication and Interim coordinator Citizen Science Hub Twente
Citizen Science Hub Twente (CSHT) results from efforts within the INCENTIVE project. This expertise centre connects researchers with citizens to projects focused on health, climate and safety. The MEEDOEN platform is part of CSHT.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Vanessa Evers | Co-founder and scientific co-director DesignLab
Vanessa thinks that DesignLab went through a wonderful transition: It's not only researchers from UT that meet each other: we actually reach out to people from all over the world that join us, to work on the great challenges that we are facing today.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Vinod Subramaniam | President Executive Board University of Twente
DesignLab's integrative way of working, pulling together research, education and innovation, helps address University of Twente's ambition of being a fourth generation university.
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Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Wiro Kuipers | EnschedeLAB (Now ChallengeLAB Twente)
When Wiro worked as coordinator EnschedeLAB (now ChallengeLAB Twente), and he experienced that a transdisciplinary way of working works on different educational levels.
Sep 2024
