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
Popular
Chalk and Walk
Design research,
Children re-design public space, Amsterdam, 2026
Children advise Adults on Life Challenges
Design research,
Children as Experts, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2024