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.
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
Restoring Balance Together
Grassroots
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.
Innovating our defense with society
Safety is a responsibility of society as a whole. It is important that people feel the urgency and have a concrete way to contribute to peace and safety in society, because after all, it concerns our future together. In this Co/Lab, the Ministry of Defence, together with design studio Muzus, is looking for ways to reveal and activate the hidden potential of collaboration with society.
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.