Tools for Proximity: Helping designers to make sense in the boardroom

This thesis presents a toolkit that aims to increase cognitive proximity among strategic designers and senior decision makers. In keeping with the general aim of the research program CRISP - PSS 101, these tools aim to establish a shared language and shared understanding (overlap in mental models) among these disparate actors. Such sharedness is...

Make space, make place, make sense

a problem due to a lack of space, a group of 50 design students had to move to another building. Having a dedicated space in an historical building turned the initial setback into an opportunity. Design students usually do not have the luxury of having their own design studio. By observing and interviewing the students over a period of 5 months,...

From gut feeling to a structured summative assessment of design competencies