Principles

  • Care and responsibility
    → ethics, safety, and ongoing consent;

  • Challenging power relations
    → critical pedagogy, design justice, redistribution of voice and influence; Critical pedagodgy (Freire, 1970) & DeSchooling Society (Illich, 1971) & Design Justice principles (Sasha Costanza-Chock, 2021);

  • Agency through participation and reciprocity
    → lived experience, collaboration, relationality, and participant influence; Convivial toolbox generative research for the front end of design (Sanders & Stappers, 2014);

  • Creativity as a universal capacity
    → participation through making, experimentation, and expression;

  • Convivial tools and materials
    → accessible infrastructures that support agency, adaptability,
    and self-determination; Tools for Conviviality (Illich, 1973)

Care & Responsibility

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Agency

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Challenging power relations

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Creativity is Universal

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Convivial Tools

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Care & Responsibility ✳︎ Agency ✳︎ Challenging power relations ✳︎ Creativity is Universal ✳︎ Convivial Tools ✳︎

Adults re-experience a child’s play zone

Design research,
Flipping adult and child roles, Marcipanis Creche, Amsterdam, 2025

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Chalk and Walk

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Children as Experts, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2024