Work

In our projects we design concrete yet bold solutions that are vehicles for social change. We work in a wide range of domains, from mental health to restoring biodiversity and everything in between.

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Rijkswaterstaat • Deltares • Wageningen Environmental Research

Envisioning flood resillient landscapes with value for society

Redesigning Society Foundation

How will new generations of biomedical engineers be trained for their future roles in society?

Food Hub, RVO, TU Delft, Wageningen University & more

Shaping the transition into a fair and sustainable food system

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Some of the projects we are working on right now.

GEM

With GEM (ecosystem mentale gezondheid – mental health ecosystem) we are setting up a new way of organising mental healthcare: centralising the patient perspective and promoting collaborations between healthcare providers and social players. Initiatives are taking root throughout the Netherlands – from Deventer to Amsterdam and from Harderwijk to Doetinchem.

Reframing Welfare

To ensure a healthy and fair future in the metropole region Amsterdam, for this generation, for future generations and for ecosystems, Amsterdam Economic Board aims to reframe our current view on welfare. Therefore, we developed a new perspective on prosperity and quality of life together with a group of 25 stakeholders. The result is an overview of nine challenges that will help strengthen quality of life in the region and can spark new ways of collaborating. Currently, we are investigating what this can mean for the theme ‘health and prevention’.

Future of parenting

Commissioned by the Bondgenoten we explored the future of parenting and growing up in the Rijnmond Region of 2030. Based on this exploration, the Bondgenoten defined their joint ambitions. With the Garage 2020 and the Bondgenoten as our partners, we are now working on their ambitions and shaping the future of raising and growing up, through concept development, prototyping and user evaluations. After working on a play free state (in collaboration with Villa Zebra), to enhance free play, we are now dreaming about the future of inclusive education (in collaboration with Cult North). Our last project in this series is about designing the equal dialogue between youth that got stuck in life and their (formal and informal) caretakers.

Redesigning relapse

In this project, funded by the Agis innovatiefonds, we are exploring how adolescents struggling with addiction can be supported. In this new perspective we shift the focus from preventing relapse to strengthening the resilience of youngsters and their social network to deal with the ups and downs that are part of the journey to recovery. This project is done in collaboration with Brijder Jeugd.

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Redesigning Society Foundation

Redesigning the Dutch mental healthcare sector

Redesigning Psychiatry is an innovation network aimed at redesigning the mental healthcare system for the 21th century. The project rethinks the core concept of what a mental illness is, while at the same time developing a system that better addresses the grand challenges we face as a society. The wide ranging program combines interview and desktop research with systems thinking, reflective design practices, intense stakeholder collaboration and the testing of new solutions.

Team
Femke de Boer
Beatrijs Voorneman
Matthijs van Dijk
Lotte Jacobse

Partners
David van den Berg
Prof. Gerrit Glas
Nina Schouten
Nynke Tromp
Eddo Velders
Sander Voerman
and many others

Publications
Redesigning Psychiatry vision (in Dutch)

Further information
Redesigning Psychiatry

Background

The Dutch mental health care system yearly serves almost a million citizens. Increased employment rates and improved levels of happiness of the Dutch population repay the investment in the system. Still, many improvements could be made. The mental health care system has a long history and evolved into a complex system. It is currently facing economic and demographic challenges, while its basic paradigms on diagnostics (e.g. DSM5) and treatment (e.g. too much focus on symptom reduction) are debated. Our society, in which the system operates, is changing rapidly and many mental health care organizations struggle to survive.

Stakeholder collaboration

Embassy of Health

Rp Publicatie Credits Redesigning Psychiatry

One of the publications

Challenge

The situation we are facing also brings opportunities. There is a felt sense that we can improve our mental health care system and a sense of urgency among organizations to ensure their meaningfulness in the future. The new technologies and media that are transforming our social environment also offer new possibilities for smarter care solutions. Yet so far, innovations in e-health hardly ever move beyond translations of existing practices to digital applications. It is difficult for mental health care experts to look beyond the current characteristics and boundaries of the system. Moreover, a shared vision for the future is lacking.

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Frame

In the first two years of its existence, Redesigning Psychiatry (RP) has focused its attention on creating a vision on the role of mental care in both our society as a whole and in people’s daily lives. Key of this frame is the hypothesis that mental health problems are best characterized as interaction problems instead of individual disorders: they rise in interactions. In these interactions patterns or vicious cycles can arise. In that case, we talk of ‘problem-sustaining-interaction patterns (psi-patterns)’. This implies that, instead of focusing on disorders, we suggest to focus on the development and characteristics of psi-patterns –that can only be partly understood by biological and psychological factors and require inclusion of economic, cultural, organisational and even societal factors to be completely understood.

Design

Based on this new frame we are working on a wide range of interventions. From mental gymnastics at primary schools to a podcast platform for adolescents and from new visions on healthcare facilities to new procedures for diagnostics. We also organize a yearly summerschool where we teach health care professionals the basic principles of reframing and the Redesigning Psychiatry foundations.

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