is a PhD candidate in the Youth & Family team at the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies (DPECS). In her research, she is examining the effectiveness of interventions for families living in a context of poverty in Rotterdam. Her research project is a collaboration between the municipality of Rotterdam, Kinderhulp, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Dominique was introduced to systems thinking in 2020 when she was a master’s student at KU Leuven doing a transdisciplinary course in which students worked in teams on wicked problems. Her team ended up developing a video game that teaches players the importance of approaching wicked problems from a systemic and transdisciplinary perspective. In 2021, Dominique became a coach for this course, and the group of students she coached wrote a manifesto in which they also highlighted the importance of systems thinking in order to prepare young people for the uncertainties that the future will hold.

is an Assistant Professor of Design for Sustainability at Delft University of Technology (TUD). She is an active member of the Transition and Systemic Design communities. In 2019 she co-founded the Delft Systemic Design Lab, she is currently acting co-director. The Delft Systemic Design Lab collaborates across Europe (Antwerp, Turin, Oslo) with other systemic design communities. A focal point in jotte her research is understanding under what conditions co-creation can be an effective approach for transitions and how our current approach to co-creation needs to be adapted to fit long-term multi-stakeholder processes.