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Brain Bar Edition: “How May I Help?”
An Interview with Luc van Hoeckel
Visitors and guests from all over the world debated futures at Brain Bar Budapest in 2016. On the second day of the event, we sat down with Dutch designer Luc van Hoeckel, who gave an inspirational talk on social design when presenting their project realised in Africa, to discuss the purpose of design.
First of all, congrats! The work you’re doing is remarkable and inspirational to us all.
Thank you.
One of the greatest things about your projects is that you work with local people and grassroots organisations. This can be quite difficult sometimes due to the fact that you need to earn their trust first. This applies to your project carried out at hospitals in Malawi as well. How did you approach the locals with this project?
The question is how we can involve the end-users in our projects. Concerning this particular project, the end-users were the hospitals we were about to work with, and we got the locals trusted by involving them in the project. We didn’t know anything about hospital equipment, since we are designers and researchers, so we gave them the…
