Berit Godfroij

• ir
• Researcher at University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

In the past decades, industrial design practice has broadened from designing (mass-)products towards e.g. the design of services, experiences and systems. With this broadening, it is questionable how models of design processes still fit todays' industrial design practice. By means of process research, this study investigates new roles that designer...

Increasingly, Design Thinking has influence beyond the confines of traditional design disciplines and expands its’ role in connecting domains and integrating resources. This study focusses on the changing role of design researchers involved in interdisciplinary research projects, following a Research-through-Design (RtD) approach. The research cont...

The book 'Create Health Ways of Working: Insights from ten eHealth innovation research projects' presents insights from the meta-research project 'Create & Health Innovation Ways of Working Analysis' (CHIWAWA). Within this meta-research project, researchers from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Research Centre Learning and Innovation) invest...

Industrial design practice has broadened from designing (mass-)products towards more open, complex, dynamic, and networked design. Organizations are increasingly hire design professionals and turn their attention towards design as an important capability that can help them generate innovation and improve business outcomes. Organizing design beyond...

Creatieve onderzoeksmethoden in de zorg zijn veranderd door de komst van COVID-19. Bij (het ontwerpen van) innovaties moet steeds gekeken worden of en hoe deze in de praktijk toegepast kunnen worden. Een nieuwe situatie zorgt voor nieuwe kansen, maar vraagt aan de andere kant ook om een verandering in de manier van werken. Al decennialang duikt in...

This presentation explains which mode-shift practices related to design ability healthcare professionals involved in co-design projects develop and adopt over time. Based on a mixed-methods research approach consisting of interviews with healthcare professionals and a multiple case study we discuss mode-shift practices related to rivers of conversa...

In solving systemic design challenges designers co-create with professionals from various fields. In the context of innovation in healthcare practices, this study investigates design abilities that healthcare professionals develop by participating in co-design projects. We conducted a mixed-methods research approach consisting of five retrospective...

This presentation shows how the triangle of client, relative, and professional caregiver together co-create better care and support in long-term care for people with intellectual disability. Two communities of development resulted into four prototypes of tools that enhance more equal communication in the triangle. Three prototypes are produced and...

In the Netherlands, client and family participation in care for people with intellectual disabilities has been in vogue for a long time. However, the perspective and experiential knowledge of clients and relatives is often still insufficiently used for the co-creation of care. The project 'Inclusive Collaboration in Disability Care' focusses on enh...

Inclusief Samenwerken in de Zorg - Samen leren en creëren in een ontwikkelwerkplaats

Steunend Relationeel Handelen (SRH) is een methodiek waarmee je mensen met een bepaalde kwetsbaarheid ondersteunt bij de door hen gewenste kwaliteit van leven. In dit boekje gaat het over mensen met een verstandelijke beperking.

Increasingly, Design Thinking's influence reaches beyond the confines of traditional design disciplines and expands its role in connecting domains and integrating resources. This study focused on the changing role of design researchers involved in interdisciplinary research projects, following a Research-through-Design (RtD) approach. The research...

Intensive collaboration between different disciplines is often not without obstacles—healthcare and creative professionals come from different worlds that are not automatically aligned. This study investigates the research question: how do project partners in Create-Health innovation collaborate across boundaries, and how does it add value to inter...

Research through Design projects in the health domain often involve collaborations of design and healthcare researchers. All partners have their own ideas and expectations with regard to what they consider valid ways to support their work. The evidence-based approach that dominates healthcare research differs from the ways that are common in design...

The ever-increasing specialization of scientific research, combined with the complex challenges that health in society is facing calls for more interdisciplinary design research. However, healthcare and creative researchers come from different worlds that do not automatically align and intensive collaboration between different disciplines is often...

Making design work in the field of dementia requires interdisciplinary research. However, obstacles are likely to occur when healthcare and creative researchers work together. Analyzing the startup phase of ten interdisciplinary projects in the field of dementia, overweight and loneliness we found seven strategies to overcome these barriers: use bo...

In service design projects, collaboration between design consultant and service provider can be problematic. The nature of these projects requires a high level of shared understanding and commitment, which providers may not be used to. We studied designer-provider collaboration in multiple real-life cases, in order to uncover determinants for succe...

Service design is literally the design of services. Service designers improve existing services or design completely new ones. Nothing new so far. Services have been around for centuries, and every service was conceived and designed by someone. However, service design takes a different angle; a different perspective as its starting point: it is a p...