Design For Impact

Jasper Bloemen is an impact entrepreneur and co-founder of GLIMPS.bio, a Ghent start-up that wants to shape a sustainable future based on biotech, design and circular economy.
Together with his team, he helps companies, governments and starting entrepreneurs and creatives to make the sustainable transition possible, for example by helping to develop scalable solutions for waste streams in the city and to find connections with social impact. He is also specialised in giving talks and workshops on nature-based innovation and connecting entrepreneurs, designers and scientists around social challenges. In addition to his years of experience in the academic world, he has also helped set up two non-profits around making science and STEM inclusive.

Lore De Clercq is a top do-gooder. This translates into social passion and enthusiasm. Fascinated by behavioural change, she has helped build awareness campaigns and projects that encourage healthier living. Because she believes that people should always be at the centre of development processes, she found her niche at iDROPS. After a Masters in Design Thinking at MIT, she became fascinated by participatory processes that start from real needs, dreams and wishes. She now works as a project assistant and coordinator in the Care and Welfare team. Among other things, she wrote the toolkit for the Mantelzorghub.

Lien De Ruyck is a creative strategist who helps organisations, brands and individuals to think differently. Entrepreneur, possibilist & adventurer who believes in a makeable future. Specialised in communication strategy, disruptive design and social innovation. Particle accelerator in the interface between activism, creativity and sustainability. Tribe Chief of We Are Tribe, a collective that uses an activist impulse to create impact through strategy, content and design.

Inge Ferwerda is an independent communication designer. Her message is 'as creatives we have the power'. Inge is a driven and experienced communication designer, she gained her experience in many leading advertising agencies, where she used every opportunity to contribute to designing a better world. She has been a teacher at LUCA for more than 15 years, first in Brussels in the Bachelor of Graphic Design and the Master of Social Design, now in Visual Design in Ghent. As a practitioner, her focus is on coaching and working with interdisciplinary teams to design smart solutions that have impact. Check out her latest project that aims to get the UN's Sustainable Development Goals on every design table > http://www.creativesforgoooooooooooooooood.be

Polish writer Igor Walszborszki ate raw herring every morning and drank vodka with it. He wrote his first poem after a dip in the fresh ice. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize four times. Jill Mathieu was not. She is nevertheless a woman of words. And when she gives someone her word, she wants it to mean something. That is why she and her goodcopy.ink collective of copywriters for brands who use its vowels, oxymorons and Oxfordian commas to make the world a little better.

Fabienne Beernaert is the source of energy of the Design for Impact team: her enthusiasm is absolutely contagious, she brings people together, she is never out of ideas. As a teacher and researcher at Sint-Lucas Ghent, she has really found her niche. She guides students in a personal way in an attitude of lifelong and collaborative learning. This is how she contributes to innovation in this rapidly changing society. Her basic attitude is one of equality, a genuine belief in the student's potential. Impact, purpose, creative activism, design thinking, research, soft skills. This melting pot of content areas fascinates her. She fully believes in the cross-fertilisation of disciplines, in empowering the student, in co-creation, in the cross-over between education, the professional field and research. That cross-over is also the bath in which she will teach you the ins and outs of design research and design thinking.

Edith Goddeeris strengthens the team from her expertise in coaching and communication skills. Communicating with impact, that is her focus. She will teach you the necessary soft skills to work together smoothly and fruitfully by creating a coaching climate with a constructive feedback culture. In addition, she will coach you in concretising and clarifying your objectives. Besides teaching Communication at LUCA, Edith is also active as a career coach at Kessels & Smit and as a (training) actress and communication trainer at Klein Barnum. She also gives theatre lessons in part-time art education. https://edith.works

We Are Tribe is a collective that uses an activist impulse to create impact through strategy, content and design.

Altruïs wants to boost well-being in the digital society so that the digital helps us to live a better life, for society and planet.

Creatives for goooooooooooood 's mission is to put the SDGs on the desk of every creative, and in every meeting room they enter.

Sociale InnovatieFabriek accelerates and promotes social innovation and ditto entrepreneurship in Flanders and Brussels.

Impact Shakers tackles complex social challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship.

iDROPS guides innovation processes around six societal challenges: Care, New Learning, Sustainability, Superdiversity, Global Innovation and Community Building.

GLIMPS.bio is a Ghent-based start-up that wants to shape a sustainable future based on biotech, design and circular economy.

Goodcopy.ink is a copywriting collective. They write good copy for good people.

Ministry of Makers links, as an innovation broker, research, creativity and design to ethical and sustainable entrepreneurship in the East Flanders region.