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Applying Design with Van Veldhuizen Stichting & Gemeente Rotterdam

Innovative Design Lab with prototypes as the foundation

Design Thinking with Social Marketing as a process to develop a concept that promotes positive parent-child interactions, with a minimum reach of 500 parents.

About this project

Many parents in Rotterdam struggle to find time and attention for positive interactions with their children. Being A Designer developed a process to create an intervention in seven days with a group of professionals to address this issue.

During this process, 165 Rotterdam parents were involved through qualitative research conducted by the social marketing agency W&I group. Between the sprints, the concepts were regularly presented to field experts. At the heart of the process was the rapid testing of assumptions through prototypes. In two iterations, 5 prototypes were developed and tested each time.

The final result is a concept focused on "quality time" between parents and children. Over the next few months, this will be further rolled out.

Goal

Designing a concept with a group of experts in 7 days to promote positive parent-child interactions, with a minimum reach of 500 parents.

Results

  • Concept & Development Plan.
  • Connections between different professionals.
  • New approach combining Design Thinking & Social Marketing.

The city as a studio

"The final concept is truly a combination of insights from all the prototypes."

Co-designing together?

Do you have a challenge where creative collaboration can make a difference? We’d love to help you design a process that brings all stakeholders to new insights and concrete solutions.
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Company details

Being A Designer
Kerklaan 52
2912CK Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel

CoC/KVK 70871000
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Expertise

  • Creative process design
  • Design thinking
  • Visual thinking
  • Concept development
  • Creative participation
  • Action research
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