Projects
The politics of design. Negotiating and creating futures for participatory design Hasselt University
Platform Citizenship - Platform design for a child participatory decision-making culture in Flanders in times of crisis HOGENT
Rethinking Circular Architectural Design as a Participatory and Inclusive practice KU Leuven
Circular Design is a fundamental concept inside Circular Economy (CE) initiatives aiming to achieve sustainability goals, especially in the Architecture field. Nonetheless, many applications of CE are failing to: reduce absolute resource input; address issues in current economic order; and balance the three sustainability dimensions – environmental, economic and social. In addition, users’ participation in Circular Design initiatives remains ...
Child’s play? Opening up Participatory Design processes to children KU Leuven
Children’s participation has become an important priority throughout Europe in areas such as national policy and city-making. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to children as a special user group in design processes. Yet children’s involvement in design has often been criticised as being ‘fast and furious’ or ‘reduced’ participation. Children’s involvement is generally restricted to a particular, short-term phase of the ...
The Other City: a community exhibition project in the city of Hasselt, on the theme of Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy Hasselt University
Advice on the design parameters for a Flemish participatory budget University of Antwerp
Longing for: Addressing intimacy and sexual pleasure in care homes through participatory design. KU Leuven
In Western societies, older people are often seen as asexual, and not in need for intimate relationships in later life. Ageing is often related to a decline in health, especially living in care homes where daily care is provided. However, this does not automatically mean that older people stop having intimate feelings. In care homes intimacy and sexual expression is perceived as a taboo topic that people prefer to silence and ignore. ...
mHealth Approaches in Sub- Saharan Africa and Participatory Design of mHealth app for Self-management of Diabetes KU Leuven
Summary The World Health Organization (WHO) defines e-Health as the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for health. e-Health enables public health and primary healthcare through activities such as disease surveillance, primary health data acquisition and analysis, support of community health workers, tele-consultation, tele-education, research and patient management. Managing a patient remotely using ICT is regarded as a ...