I turn complex, multi-stakeholder problems into visuals, strategies and solutions people act on.

A data commons for circular communities

The Grondstoffenstation in the south of Rotterdam processes market waste. It shows how a circular economy can grow bottom-up: neighbourhood initiatives are full of knowledge and passion, but much of the value they create stays invisible. I collected material, financial, social and ecological data and diagnosed the gap between the multiple values the station creates and what is actually seen and taken seriously by the municipality.

I captured that gap in an iceberg analysis, mapped the flows with the Circular Value Flower and built interactive data prototypes. When initiatives can show their value, their collaboration with the municipality grows stronger. That is how my work helps systemic change in rigid, linear systems.

The internship grew into my MSc graduation project: co-developing a community-governed data platform so circular initiatives — in the Netherlands, Kenya, Indonesia and the Galápagos — can evidence the value they create, on their own terms.

≈585 tonnes of yearly material flows mapped · financial result turned from −€14k (2024) to +€6k (2025), made visible to the municipality

Individual internship project, supervised by Design & Publics.

Circular communities along the Nairobi River

Five weeks of fieldwork with two community initiatives — a river-cleanup waste collective and an urban farming group. I mapped the value they create with field versions of the Circular Value Flower, ran co-creation workshops, and left behind branding, fundraising and action-plan tools they still use.

This project grew into my graduation research on data commons for circular communities.

5 weeks of fieldwork · 2 grassroots initiatives · branding, fundraising and action-plan tools still in use today

Team project — my role: value mapping in the field, co-creation workshops, branding and templates.

Luisterhuis — residents' voices in decision rooms

The energy transition in Delft-West kept stalling on distrust: residents felt unheard about mold, bills and cold homes. I designed the Luisterhuis, a listening installation that records residents' stories and plays them back inside institutional meetings — plus a mobile outreach truck to meet people where they are.

Tested with real residents' recorded stories · presented to Gemeente Delft and energy cooperative 015Duurzaam

Studio team project — my role: concept design and visual storytelling.

Tearbox — packaging that ditches the tape

Airplane catering trolleys travel in cardboard boxes held together with tape and staples — slow to open, hard to recycle. My redesign is a folded, double-corrugated box with a tear strip and starch glue: no tape, no staples, and CO₂ per box down from 3.64 to 2.15 kg.

A complete product cycle: research, prototyping, user testing, technical drawings and a production-ready design.

CO₂ per box: 3.64 → 2.15 kg (−41%) · tape and staples fully eliminated

Individual Bachelor End Project for client Driessen.

Exercise Hub & Rising Water

Designing for society in Delft's Poptahof neighbourhood: an enclosed outdoor space for short app-guided workouts, prototyped and tested with residents in a tent on the neighbourhood field. Alongside it, "Rising Water" — a hand-drawn infographic imagining daily life with sea-level rise in 2050.

Prototyped full-scale and tested with residents on location in Poptahof

The future of travelling for Gen Z — vision & roadmap

Vanderlande automates baggage handling at airports worldwide. Our seven-person team asked what Gen Z — the travellers of 2040 — will demand from that journey, and what Vanderlande should build to stay ahead. From trend research and value studies we built six future personas and mapped today's passenger journey against tomorrow's, phase by phase.

The vision comes together in three artefacts: a passenger journey map — the part I made myself — connecting Gen Z values to interventions across ten travel phases, a hand-illustrated storyboard of the 2040 journey from home to hotel ("Travelling from A-Z"), and a three-horizon strategic roadmap — Automate (2025), Innovate (2032), Integrate (2040+) — linking each horizon to concrete products, services and technology enablers.

Three-horizon roadmap to 2040+ · 10-step future journey storyboard · journey map with 6 personas across 10 travel phases

Team project (7 students) for client Vanderlande — my role: the passenger journey map, setting today's journey against the 2040 vision across ten phases. The roadmap and storyboard were made together as a team.

Creative sessions, designed like products

For entrepreneur Robert Veljacic of Delft Brand Strategy, I co-designed and facilitated a 135-minute creative problem-solving session around his real business question: how can small companies feel confident about investing in branding? I structured the session as three diamonds — problem finding, idea finding, solution finding — each with its own diverging and converging techniques: hidden presumptions, chain association with forced fit, a C-box with dot-voting, and brainsketching.

Every material in the room was designed, not improvised: hand-drawn method posters, a code of conduct, a parking lot, energisers timed between blocks. The group left with a reframed problem statement and three concept posters the client could act on the next day.

One 135-minute session → a reframed problem statement + 3 actionable concept posters