My name is Femke Schaap and I am a human-centered designer, with a bachelor in Industrial Design from the Eindhoven University of Technology. I am also a sailor and training to become a professional Ocean Racer.

ID graduation project

The complex challenges of our time demand intergenerational and interdisciplinary collaborations between people working on transformation. However, there are often knowledge gaps that complicate the collaboration.

The Transformation Conversation Toolkit is designed to bridge these gaps by facilitating meaningful dialogues between students and professionals, using six ambiguous objects and the Key Transformation Indicator cards created by Rosa van der Veen. These conversations are initiated after participants are paired on a platform called 'The Repository of Transformation' and take place in person. During these sessions, students will use the toolkit to engage in embodied cognition and participatory sense-making, leading to new insights into transformation. These insights are then archived in the Repository of Transformation, increasing the expanding knowledge network on transformation.

Looking ahead, algorithms can analyze this growing data to uncover patterns, inspiring new approaches to future challenges.

The project was approached from a human-centered perspective and to create the final prototypes, I implemented both my aesthetic and technological skills. I created an aesthetic family of artifacts by processing the wood by hand and constructing elements using laser cutting. This multi-stakeholder project encompasses analytical and abstract concepts about societal change and the passing on of knowledge, as well as the implementation of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

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ID graduation project