Designlab Brew

DesignLab University of Twente is not just celebrating their 10-year anniversary. This year, we can also congratulate Klaasjan Visscher, DesignLab’s scientific co-director and programme director of the Transdisciplinary Master- Insert ‘Shaping Responsible Futures’ (check out episode 3!), as he has been appointed Professor of Innovation in Higher Education & Society at the BMS Faculty. In this...

ChallengeLAB Twente: A programme that connects creative thinkers and makers from ROC van Twente, University of Twente, AKI ArtEZ and Saxion. In mixed teams, they work on societal challenges within the municipalities of Enschede and Hengelo. Project leader Eric Wolkotte informs about how this initiative started on a national and regional level (with EnschedeLAB), and how the current programme is de...

There’s no better way to innovate the educational system than doing so with students and teachers who are part of it. Making the curriculum challengingbased and involving the different societal stakeholders who can also learn and further develop their solutions with the help of education, was the founding idea behind the Transdisciplinary Master-Insert ‘Shaping Responsible Futures’, hosted by Desi...

DesignLab Academy is a programme focused on Life Long Learning. You will both re-engage in education and tackle wicked challenges within your jobs at the same time. Researcher and project lead Responsible Futuring Julieta Matos Castaño and project lead DesignLab Academy and moderator Maartje Huinink explain the approach that DesignLab uses, how it was developed and how the team also learns during...

The international University Innovation Fellows programme trains you as a student in design thinking and empowers you to become a change maker within your university’s ecosystem. UT student and team member UIF Twente Panashe Mangezi, and co-founder and manager DesignLab, as well as Faculty Innovation (Founding) Fellow and coach Miriam Iliohan, proudly explain how this programme is embedded in the...

Join us as we dive into the University of Twente’s presence at Dutch Design Week in 2023. Arash and Riki interview Alexandru, the project lead for “What’s on your Menu?” or “The Cookery” installation. The Cookery was sent to represent our university at DDW 2023. We will see the journey from the inception of the idea to a working installation displayed at Dutch Design Week: everything from the chal...

Are you interested in the intersection of design, technology and the human experience? Then get ready to learn about his groundbreaking work in empowering neurodiverse users through innovative technologies and co-design methodology. Join our hosts Chiara Poli Reghenzi and Gemma Ciabattoni as they explore the cutting-edge research of Jelle van Dijk, a design researcher with a PhD in industrial desi...

What is an artificial womb and how can it reshape our human experience? I n the second episode of the Designlab Brew podcast our hosts Carithea Richards and Gemma Ciabattoni dive in the fascinating speculative design work of Lisa Mandemaker. Lisa studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and was nominated in BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. Her...

What is it like to have been at the University of Twente for over 34 years? What of this experience will you take with you as you move to become Rector Magnificus at the University of Amsterdam? These are some of the questions our hosts Riki Ogawa and Twan Wildeboer asked Peter-Paul Verbeek in the first episode of the DesignLab Brew podcast. Peter-Paul studied philosophy of Science and Technology...

What do Dreamteamers do besides hosting shifts and tours at Designlab? What do Citizen Science, Trandisciplinarity and Responsible Futuring have to do with DesignLab? And how does serious gaming add to these values? For a few years, former DreamTeamer Nefeli Kousi worked with members of RRI2SCALE, a European project, on a serious game meant to give users a chance to role play in societal challenge...

Coming from the center of textile innovation in the Netherlands, this episode dives into smart textiles and where this technology is going. Is it too invasive? Laura interviews Gemma and Assistant Professor Edwin Diertien, making waves with integrating theatre and robotics, while also teaching Mastering Tinkering and Social Robot Design, to add more ideation and creation to a strong technical fiel...

In the first episode 'Dutch Design Week: They built, You Saw, We connected', Laura and Nefeli explore the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, where they both get hands-on experience with the visitors and participants. The episode showcases two of the University of Twente projects in the Dutch Design Week. Together with Naomi van Stralen & Andries Wijnveen, they deep dive into their project: the ge...

We explored DesignLab’s newest approach to creating responsible technologies, developed by our own researcher Cristina Zaga. This approach, Responsible Futuring, is built upon the three focus areas of DesignLab: Citizen Science, Responsible Design by working Transdisciplinary. This time we unravel the story of transitioning from Science to Design for Society to the new Responsible Futuring approac...

Tyrell and Thyne share their experiences during and after the UT Challenge event at University of Twente. One has successfully set-up the start-up Plaex based on an idea that was partially developed in the event. And the other helped co-hosting it in this year’s hybrid (physical/digital) version. We follow along their journeys through success and challenges.

We invite Tyrell and Thyne to share with us their experiences during and after the UT Challenge event at University of Twente. One has successfully set-up the start-up Plaex based on an idea that was partially developed in the event. And the other helped co-hosting it in this year’s hybrid (physical/digital) version. We follow along their journeys through success and challenges.

Pieter Riem and Dirk Wanders share their experiences designing and executing the interior of two unique rooms in DesignLab. By building a large and multifunctional collaborative space, as well as a small-group brainstorming room, Pieter and Dirk faced challenges that a student rarely is entrusted to overcome. Like, for example handling big budgets and hiring contractors.

Pilot - Project leader Operations Nicole Wright and DreamTeamer Chetena Pai will talk us through their experiences as part of DesignLabs’ own social distancing task force. Their efforts successfully kept us all safe while we worked in DesignLab. Now we dive into how it all came to be.