As interaction designer and urbanist, I design interactions within cities rather than with screens. I enjoy researching patterns of behaviour in context - and use the insights to inform design decisions.
My projects are often a combination of strategy, digital and physical design. I believe in participatory processes and inter-disciplinary collaborations, as building together is the only way towards more human-scale, bubble-breaking and nature-inclusive environments.
Current engagements
I’ve recently founded Bits of Space, a design and consultancy studio giving shape to the relations and interactions between people, technology and the built environment. I also enjoy speaking about urban technologies and participatory city making. For speaking engagements, please contact The Next Speaker.
Previously
At UNSense, I worked as an experience designer within the architectural design process. As an in-house service designer at the City of Amsterdam, I set up a lab for redesigning local democracy, exploring what digital tools could do for collective decision making. Earlier, I worked as a designer and maker at Umbrellium, and as a coder at Relational Urbanism. I received my BSc degree in Industrial Design from the TU Eindhoven, and graduated from the AA School of Architecture’s MSc Emergent Technologies and Design programme.