Values into Space

Spatial transformations in healthcare, infrastructure, and urban nature are never neutral—they shape how we relate to each other and the world around us. I work from the question: what kind of society do we enable through the spaces we create?
Translating values into spatial strategies, scenarios, and architectural directions. 

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Selected Works

A selection of recent work across scales and systems​, exploring how values translate into space.

future train stations - design research & vision compass

Reimagining urban nature as space of care - Stadsoever Eindhoven

Future Mental Healthcare - scenarios for GGZE De Grote Beek

Playbook for healing environments:
​a spatial strategy for the estate of De Grote Beek

A strategic framework that translates care values into long-term spatial transformation.

The Playbook is the result of a 2-year design research commissioned by GGz Eindhoven and TU Eindhoven. It is designed as a strategic guidebook to inform the transformation of GGz Eindhoven's headquarters into a sustainable healing environment.
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It has become a reference for many decision-makers and designers working on long-term inclusive transformations of communities and landscapes. Reaching beyond its Eindhoven context, across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the USA.

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Mapping care-driven transformations:
What makes transformations in the healthcare sector a success? 

Understanding transformation as a social and spatial process rooted in care.

Visual research into spatial transformations.
​In the healthcare sector spatial transformations go hand-in-hand with organisational changes. All changes, transformations and innovations are first and foremost a social process. That requires a care-based approach, captivating stories and flexibility. The healthcare sector hold many lessons and opportunities for this approach and method of dealing with change.

But what makes a good and resilient spatial transformation in the care sector, and what can we learn from that for other transformations? This visual roadmap answers this question on the basis of 9 extensive interviews with people who've led such transformations in the Dutch care sector.

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