Scaling food sharing initiatives

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17:15-17:30 Welcome and introduction
(Ingrid Mulder)
17:30-18:00 Lessons on scaling from Designscapes
(Chiara Marradi)
18:00-19:00 Interactive Panel – Scaling “Food Sharing” Delft
(Elisabeth Tschavgova)
19:00-19.15 Wrap and Closure

Our speakers

Ingrid Mulder, PhD is an expert in transformative and social design. Her background in policy and organization sciences (MA, University of Tilburg) and behavior science (Ph.D., University of Twente) together with an early-stage research career anticipating future technologies impacting society within the national Top Technology Institute on Telematics has reinforced her ongoing transdisciplinary research addressing complex societal challenges at a systemic level. She has been (co-)principal investigator in a dozen of national and European projects that share their focus on design methodology in relation to digital, social or urban innovation and established among others the European Network of Living Labs and the Designscapes capacity building program. Currently, as an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology and director of the Delft Design Lab Participatory City Making, she further builds design capacity in the public realm through local design experiments and developing methods and strategies for social sustainability and systemic change.

Elisabeth Tschavgova is a MSC Strategic Product Design student (TU Delft) who focuses on social transitions at a policy and a sustainability level. Elisabeth is working in her honors project of her master studies on the transitional role of design in democracies, exploring how participatory design can restructure the democratic process through bottom-up citizen involvement within the EU.
Currently Elisabeth is also involved in the Dutch Red Cross in the context of her internship, implementing strategic and human centered design in global projects focusing on humanitarian issues in the Netherlands and developing countries.
Through internships at VanBerlo and DS Smith, Elisabeth has explored the classical business context of Design which gave her the needed skills to empower sustainable startups in Austria and Germany and support grass root petitions for stronger sustainable regulations within the Austrian government.
Elisabeth believes that design has great potential to transition society towards a stronger democracy and a more sustainable future. Keeping this in mind throughout her journey as designer, she is eager to dive deep into the possibilities of design and challenge its current boundaries.

Chiara Marradi is an enthusiastic Strategic Visual Designer with a passion for Social Innovation. She graduated in April 2021 with a MSc in Strategic Product Design at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). For her graduation project she collaborated with the Participatory City Making Lab and the EU funded project DESIGNSCAPES researching ‘How to scale social initiatives from one urban context to another to achieve larger impact’. Through her positive energy and enthusiasm, she’s willing to bring different stakeholders to collaborate together. She believes that empowering people relationships lead to successful social and positive outcomes. Previous to her Master studies, Chiara worked for 1 year at Abitare In in the context of urban regeneration as Graphic Designer and Content Creator. She had several years of experience as a Visual Designer freelance. She graduated with a Bsc degree in Communication & Graphic Design at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA), Milan.
Before moving to the Netherlands, she worked and studied in Milan where she was born in 1995. In September, she will move to Brussels where she will start a new job as Service Designer Consultant at IBM iX.
She is interested in using participatory and HCD approaches to tackle complex urban challenges and she aims to use design to facilitate change starting bottom-up and reaching to the policy level.

As part of the DESIGNSCAPES Un-Conference, TUDelft has organized a session to focus on the topic of scaling food initiatives across Europe. In this session, Chiara Marradi will share the lessons learnt from the DESIGNSCAPES project on scaling social innovation initiatives. Afterwards, Elisabeth Tschavgova will guide you through a co-creative activity that aims to explore how to scale a food initiative (taking the case study of Food Sharing Delft) and reflect on the relationship between citizens, policy makers and designers.