Co/Labs
Co/Labs are guided design collaborations where challenge owners – from governments to businesses – and experts collaborate with creative thinkers and doers. We help them translate challenges into concrete design questions and facilitate their collaboration. At the same time, designers have the opportunity to immerse themselves in ambitious complex issues and receive support throughout the process.
Samenredzaam Mierlo-Hout
Savant Zorg, Compaen and Dutch Design Foundation are launching Co/Lab: Samenredzaam Mierlo-Hout. In this trajectory, we explore how design can contribute to a new way of living together — one where care is not only something provided by an organisation, but something a neighbourhood creates together.
Healing Bridge
Water is essential to life in the city, yet this realisation often remains invisible in our everyday actions. Together with the Water Embassy, this Co/Lab explores how design can foster a new relationship between people and water. The aim is to create a place where encounter, engagement and care for water come together.
Drinkable Nature
How can we make the invisible visible, so that people reconnect with water and nature and take shared responsibility for a healthy living environment?
Building for Wellbeing
In the Netherlands, various social and demographic developments are impacting experienced wellbeing. These challenges are leading to steadily increasing healthcare and societal costs. Health and wellbeing represent the largest expenditure in national and many municipal budgets. There is therefore a strong urgency to prevent healthcare costs: prevention. We see the transition from care to prevention as a highly urgent challenge. In this, the living environment — buildings and areas — can play an important role.
Restoring Balance Together
This Co/Lab explores, together with Heijmans and relevant system partners, how we can engage stakeholders in the water challenge in a compelling and tangible way.
Grassroots
Grassroots maps Minimal Viable Ecosystems around start-ups in the agri-food sector. It explores how these ecosystems create societal impact within the food transition, where they encounter obstacles and where new perspectives are needed to increase that impact. Designers and other partners are invited to contribute to solutions that help start-ups move forward and support systemic change.
Connected Energy
In this Co/Lab, Vattenfall explores together with designers, thinkers and makers how energy can be organised at neighbourhood level in a collective, affordable and connecting way.
Silent wisdom as a foundation for tomorrow
The Netherlands has around 63,000 national monuments, and at least as many provincial and municipal monuments. These places contribute to the beauty, history, and identity of our country. But their value does not lie in the past alone.
Circular Energy Grid
Alliander invites designers to join a new Co/Lab to explore how circular thinking and doing can become the norm within the energy infrastructure of the future.
Tech Talent Unlocked
In collaboration with Stichting Jeugd & Beroep, we are exploring in this Co/Lab how young people (ages 9–14) can be introduced to a future in technology in a positive and engaging way.
Caring Neighbourhoods
With increasing demand for care and limited growth in the care workforce, a new approach is essential. This lab focuses on the role of care professionals in the future where communities where residents support one another take more shape.
Rethinking Waste
In samenwerking met Wahu verkent dit Co/Lab nieuwe mogelijkheden om het afvalinzamelingssysteem in Indonesië te verbeteren.