Social Innovations
Wina Smeenk | InHolland
Systemic Safety Dialoques
Wina Smeenk started a collaborative collective of four universities of applied sciences – the Expertisenetwork Systemic Co-design (ESC, 2022) - to further develop methods for systemic co-design. At DRIVE she talks about a recent study that 4 researchers conducted into the systemic structure, approach and culture of the safety culture at Chemelot (Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands) and how to translate the findings to other places for Safety Delta Netherlands.
In this research they made use of the co-design canvas and the innovation with labs process of the Hague University of Applied Sciences: 2 instruments that stimulate and stimulate collaboration. And they developed a new systemic security dialogues toolkit. Knowledge has been collected from various layers, resulting in 1) richer insights and examples in the field of safety; 2) it taught us researchers to scale up dialogues and use them strategically; and 3) we can share and combine the learning experiences within social earning capacity. It confirms Wina's premise that only when the different perspectives are represented you can design and realize meaningful ideas together.
Wina Smeenk works as a lecturer in Societal Impact Design at University of Applied Sciences Inholland. She is chair of the Network Applied Design Research (NADR), a joint initiative of Dutch design lectorates. She obtained her PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology (2019) with her dissertation Navigating Empathy, Empathic Formation in co-design, in which she takes a step towards formalizing empathic formation in co-design as a legitimate design research methodology.
Wina also runs her own innovation and co-design consultancy WiEN's designership (since 2010) at the intersection of service design, experience design, product design and interaction design. Here she works with the empathic co-design canvas and empathic co-design compass she developed, her mixed-perspectives methodology and the empathic hand-over method. The aim is to create an inclusive society.
