Social Innovation Lab
The lab’s researchers bring together a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise, including cartographic methods, participatory design, social sciences, archival research, GIS, and geotechnology.
PROJECTS IN THE RESEARCH-EDUCATION NEXUS
PROJECTS IN THE SOCIETY-RESEARCH NEXUS
PROJECTS IN THE EDUCATION-SOCIETY NEXUS
Output from Collaborations
PRESENTATION MOMENTS AND MILESTONES
OUR PUBLICATIONS
Bueno de Mesquita, N. (forthcoming). Knowledge Systems for Design Research. In O. Merhav (Ed.), Material Driven Practices. Centre Pompidou: Kandinsky Library.
Neef, R., Bueno de Mesquita, N., Leenderste, W., & Boeijen, N. (2024, June). Balancing institutional and participatory space in the management of water imbalance: A dual institutional and participatory design perspective. Paper presented at the WETsus Economy for the Common Good International Conference, Leeuwarden, Fryslân, The Netherlands. https://www.wetsus.nl/app/uploads/2024/08/ECGIC-2024_Papers-Day-1.pdf
Bueno de Mesquita, N. (2024). Mapping als Gestaltungsstrategie: Forschung und transformative Produktion miteinander verweben. In E. Krasny, B, Büscher & L. Ortman (Eds.), Porös-Werden: Geteilte Räume, urbane Dramaturgien, performatives Kuratieren (pp. 211-221). Wien: Tuira & Kant. (Free acces via https://www.turia.at/titel/poroes.php)
Bueno de Mesquita, N. (2022). Manifesto for a Design Research framework. Design Academy Eindhoven.
Bueno de Mesquita, N. (2022). Digital Performative Mapping [Doctoral dissertation, KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts]. KU Leuven Research Repository
Bueno de Mesquita, N., Cila, N., Groen, M., & Meys, W. (2018). Socio-technical Systems for Citizen Empowerment: How to Mediate Between Different Expectations and Levels of Participation in the Design of Civic Apps. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 10(2), 172-195.
Golchehr, S. & Bueno de Mesquita, N. (2018). Data-driven Design for Civic Participation. In O. Devisch, L. Huybrechts & R. De Ridder (Eds.), Participatory Design Theory (pp. 56-70). Oxon: Routledge.
Bueno de Mesquita, N. & Hamers, D. (2017). Mapping Invisibility, RTD Conference, 27, 423-437
Hamers, D. Bueno de Mesquita, N. Vaneycken, A., & Schoffelen, J. (Eds.). (2017). Trading Places: Practices of Public Participation in Art and Design Research. Barcelona, Spain: dpr-Barcelona
Golchehr, S. & Bueno de Mesquita, N. (2015, May 21-22). Introducing Digital Methods For On-going Engagement for Design in Public Space: How Mining and Mapping Social Media Data Can Help Inform Spatial Designers About a Local Context. [Paper presentation]. Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation Conference, Hasselt, Belgium.
MEET THE TEAM
FORMER TEAM MEMBERS
Jaïr Salomon van Dijk
Former Research Associate in Colonies of Benevolence, Design Deal Project. SI–LAB: Feb 2025/Jan 2026
Freja Kræmmer Nielsen
Former Research Associate in Colonies of Benevolence, Design Deal Project. SI–LAB: Jun 2024/Jan 2026
Niene Boeijen
Former Research Associate in GO-CAWH Project. SI–LAB: March 2024/March 2025 and Former Tutor Focus Module Cartographic Explorations Sep 2023/Feb 2024 and Cartographic Explorations: Inclusive Future Studies Sep 2024/Feb 2025
Anne Vader
Former Research Associate in GO-CAWH Project. SI–LAB: Sep 2024/Jan 2025
Olga Korosteleva
Former Research Associate in Colonies of Benevolence Project. SI–LAB: Jun 2024/Jan 2025
Lucas Zoutendijk
Former Research Associate in GO-CAWH Project. SI–LAB: Sep 2023/Feb 2024
Neeltje ten Westenend
Former Tutor of Focus Module Cartographic Explorations Sep 2023/Feb 2024