Hello!
I am a Dutch-born, Swedish-based researcher. My interests and passion lay in learning together for a more just and flourishing world for everyone.
I am an Associate Senior Lecturer at Malmö University at the School of Arts and Communication. My focus area is Design for Sustainability and Social Change. I am part of the Malmö Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (CICF), The Collaborative Future Making platform, and the K3 Olfactory Research and Design Group (ODR. I use participatory design and research-through-design approaches to respectfully bring together different knowledge systems and worldviews.
In my current research project, Indigenous Climate Observatories – Local knowledge for Local action, I collaborates with Indigenous communities in Eswatini, Lesotho and Borneo (Malaysia) to facilitate discussions around climate change and biodiversity loss through community-specific indicators of change. I also worked at the Energy Design studio of RISE Interactive (Sweden), where I focused on supporting democratic debate on climate action through stimulating climate goal/science literacy in (young)citizens. I did this through different approaches such as participatory theatre and speculative design. I have a PhD in Participatory Design with Indigenous communities from Northumbria University (UK) and a Master’s and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from the University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands
News
- Blanket-making Mingle
- Indigenous Climate Observatories at SANORD
- Plurality and Accessiblity Chair at DIS 2024
- Southern Swedish Design Days
I was part of the Southern Swedish Design Days exhibition of Care for Design Research by Malmö University with the project Indigenous Climate Observatories. It was exciting to show our project to other people and to have deep conversations about it. It showed to be the importance of creating strong connections to the places where… Read more: Southern Swedish Design Days