SIG on Designing Technology for Mental Wellbeing Talks: Healthy Start Colloquium ‘Mental Health Awareness: Check! – What’s Next?!'
2026-03-30 13:30 - 17:30 UTC | Oase, Schiehaven 15-A, Rotterdam, Oase, Schiehaven 15-A, Rotterdam, Netherlands
What happens when mental health awareness among young people increases and becomes the norm? And how can we ensure this translates into positive change? On March 30th, we will engage in this dialogue. Register now for the thought-provoking colloquium “Mental Health Awareness: Check! – What’s Next?!”.
We are proud to share extra names with you for the panel discussion. Wanda Tempelaar, Maartje van den Essenburg, Pim van den Dool and Amine Bakkali will share their insights in an interactive discussion. Find out more information about them here: Healthy Start Colloquium ‘Mental Health Awareness: Check! – What’s Next?!’ – Convergence.
Additionally, keynote speaker Prof. Anette Wickström (Linköping University, Sweden) will share thought-provoking insights in her talk ‘Between metrics and meaning: Survey practices, young people’s perspectives, and looping effects of psychiatric labels’, examining how the ways we measure and talk about mental health shape young people’s experiences.
Excited to join? Please register here: Healthy Start Colloquium ‘Mental Health Awareness: Check! – What’s Next?!’ – Convergence

EdSIG DDfV session | Student Responsibility and Value Awareness through Portfolios
2026-03-31 12:45 - 13:45 | TU Delft Teaching Lab, Arena / Forum, Landbergstraat 19, Delft, Zuid-Holland, 2628CE, Netherlands
EdSIG Session | Student Responsibility and Value Awareness through Portfolios
31 March 2026 | 12:45–13:45 | TU Delft Teaching Lab
We warmly invite the education community to join our upcoming reflective session about portfolio trajectories to foster responsibility and value awareness in engineering education.
About this session
In this session, we will reflect on a concrete example from practice: the portfolio trajectory developed at Mechanical Engineering. Pim van der Male will present this case and walk us through how the portfolio approach has been implemented to support students in developing responsibility and value awareness throughout their studies.
Together, we will explore how portfolios can serve as a tool for students to recognize, articulate, and reflect on values in their academic and professional development. We will also discuss the challenges and opportunities that emerge when integrating such approaches, and what lessons can be drawn for other educational contexts at TU Delft.
By examining this specific case, we aim to uncover insights that can inspire Design for Values in education more broadly, whether you are already working with values in your teaching or are just starting to explore the possibilities.
A new meeting series
This reflective session kicks off a new meeting series in which educators share, discuss, and learn from each other’s practices on Design for Values across the University. The series is organized by the Education SIG of the Delft Design for Values Institute in collaboration with the TU Delft Teaching Academy.
The goal of these sessions is to create a space for open exchange, bringing together educators, support staff, and students to reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and how we can strengthen value-thinking in TU Delft education together.
Practical information
12:30 walk-in & lunch (vegetarian)
12:45 session starts
13:45 end of session
Location: TU Delft Teaching Lab, Arena / Forum
Target audience: Educators and Education Support Staff
To make sure there is enough lunch for everyone, please register in advance via the link below.
Register here
Get involved
Have a teaching activity you’d like to discuss or explore in a future session, whether past, ongoing, or still just an idea? Write to edSIG-ddfv@tudelft.nl. We are preparing an interesting schedule for upcoming sessions, and your contributions are very welcome.

Documentary Premiere: "Re-rooting" at Sonnenborgh Museum, Utrecht
2026-04-10 14:00 | Sonnenborgh Museum, Zonnenburg 2, Utrecht, Utrecht, 3512NL, Netherlands
Documentary Premiere: “Re-rooting”
Thursday, 10 April 2026 | 14:00 | Sonnenborgh Museum, Utrecht
Free event. To attend, send an email to pact@hetkin.nl.
A documentary screening organized by the Indigenous Liberation Month x Just Transitions Network working group, part of Klimaatonderzoek Initiatief Nederland (KIN).
View the full programme
About the documentary
Re-rooting is the result of a co-creation process between Myra Colis, Anna Melnyk, Laure Herpain, and the KIN PACT working group. The documentary explores a central question: what if the energy transition was led by Indigenous principles?
Through the voices of twelve contributors from Indigenous and academic backgrounds, the film shows how reciprocity, responsibility, intergenerationality, and interconnectedness can help re-root our approach to the future.
Featured contributors include Sarah Pardede (Toba Batak), Semuel Sahureka (AlifURU), Myra Colis (Igorot), Dr. Carolina Sanchez De Jaegher, Skylar Joseph (Sicangu Lakota), Diana Vlet (Lokono & Warau), Cesar Taguba (Igorot), Audrey Christiaan (Kariña), Yvonne Belen (Igorot), Etta James (Arawak), Fatima (Lecturer & Researcher), and Anna Melnyk (Climate Ethicist).
View the full programme
About the creators
The documentary was made by Laure Herpain and organized by Myra Colis, Anna Melnyk, and the KIN PACT working group Indigenous Liberation Month & Just Transitions Network.

Call for Participants: Theater of the Techno-Oppressed
2026-04-21 09:00 - 13:00 | TU Delft – Campus
Call for Participants: Theater of the Techno-Oppressed
Tuesday, 21 April 2026 | 9:00 – 13:00 | TU Delft
Coffee and sandwich lunch included.
A participatory workshop with Dr. Frederick van Amstel, organized by the Delft Design for Values Institute’s Special Interest Group “Design for Justice.”
Register here
About the workshop
Despite the promises of digital innovation, many technologies, including those created in university settings, shape everyday life in ways that reinforce inequality, exclusion, and exploitation.
This 4-hour interactive workshop uses theatrical techniques inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed and incorporates embodied interaction design practices to explore how technologies such as social media, platforms, and apps can mediate power, inequality, and resistance.
Participants will:

Act out technology-mediated situations
Reflect on power relations in digital systems
Imagine alternative and more liberating technologies

The workshop is open to students, researchers, and other members of the TU Delft community interested in technology, society, and social justice.
This activity is open to all human bodies, including those who think they have no talent for acting. Special accommodations can be provided for people with disabilities, people with limited mobility, racialized people living with racial trauma, survivors of sexual assault, and others who wish to disclose specific needs to the organizers before or during the workshop.
Register here
About the facilitator
Find more about Frederick van Amstel and the Theater of the Techno-Oppressed on his website.

Design for Digital Autonomy - DDfV impact day
2026-06-09 12:00 - 17:00 | TU Delft – The Hague Campus, Spui, Spui 5, Den Haag, 2511 BL, Netherlands
Recent geopolitical developments show that the Netherlands is vulnerable when it comes to its dependence on digital infrastructure and services from other countries and large technology companies. This is also reflected in TU Delft’s position paper on Open Strategic Autonomy. It has led to an increasing call for digital autonomy, in politics, in advisory reports and in scientific research. But what exactly do we mean by digital autonomy? And what can organizations, such as municipalities, universities and companies, do to advance digital autonomy?

The event focuses on the question of how we can foster digital autonomy and what choices this entails. What is needed to foster and operationalize digital autonomy? Which policies effectively contributes to this? What knowledge is needed? Digital autonomy is a broad theme for organizations and to act effectively, cooperation, effective policy and clear (design) guidelines are crucial.

During this event, we strive for cross-pollination between policy, practice and science, and between different domains (municipalities, implementing organisations, universities). We investigate where the shared challenges (cross-sectoral) and obstacles lie, what central values play a role in the design of digital technology in combination with digital autonomy, where value tensions occur and how we can put digital autonomy into practice.

More information & Registration

EdSIG DDfV session | Teaching Values with Q-Sorting
2026-06-10 09:45 - 11:30 | TU Delft Teaching Lab, Arena / Forum, Landbergstraat 19, Delft, Zuid-Holland, 2628CE, Netherlands
Teaching Values with Q-Sorting
by Maurits Ertsen
We warmly invite the education community to join our upcoming session about Q-Sorting.
This session is part of a series of meetings in which educators share, discuss, and learn from each other’s practices on Design for Values across the university. The series is organised by the Special Interest Group on Education of the Delft Design for Values Institute in collaboration with the Teaching Academy.

In this session
Compared to traditional list-based surveys, Q-Sorting is typically seen as more suited to show diversity of ideas. Maurits has used Q-Sorting quite extensively in courses and projects in BSc and MSc programmes.
The workshop will focus on two aspects.
First, a recent Q-Sort shows the ideas of students at CEG and outsiders about what engineering should focus on in the next ten years. These ideas are diverse and thus allow discussion on how goals and values are determined in the first place.
Second, using Q-Sorting in class – for example by defining a research setup together with students – allows engagement with questions of data, claims, and ideas in both research itself and the topic of the survey, whether this concerns where to go on holiday or which study activities are preferred.

Timeline
09:45 Walk-in & coffee10:00 Start of session11:30 End of session

Location
TU Delft Teaching Lab, Arena

Target audience
Educators and Education Support Staff

Registration
Please register here.

Future sessions
If you have teaching activities you would like to discuss or explore in future sessions – whether past, ongoing, or still just ideas – please write to:edSIG-ddfv@tudelft.nl
We are currently preparing an interesting schedule for future sessions, and contributions are very welcome.
Find more on this event on this website.

Closing Event: Design for Values and Critical Raw Materials: Decolonial Justice Perspectives
2026-06-26 12:00 - 17:30 | Frans van Hasselt Hall, Aula, TU Delft, Mekelweg 5, Delft, 2628 CC
What ethical challenges emerge from the growing demand for critical raw materials, and how can Design for Values contribute to addressing their social and environmental impacts? How can perspectives that are often marginalized in discussions of technological innovation, climate change, and resource governance be meaningfully integrated into design processes?
These questions have guided the Delft Design for Values Seed Project Design for Values and Critical Raw Materials: Decolonial Justice Perspectives. The project explored the ethical, political, and epistemic dimensions of critical raw materials, examining how resource extraction and supply chains are intertwined with broader questions of global justice, colonial legacies, and climate transitions.
Drawing on decolonial justice perspectives, the project investigated how dominant development paradigms can reproduce unequal power relations and forms of green colonialism. The project sought to expand Design for Values by engaging with questions of global justice, value pluralism, Indigenous knowledge, and alternative understandings of human–nature relationships on methodological, conceptual, and social engagement levels. Methodologically, the project combined collaborative engagement with Indigenous and artistic partners with emerging approaches such as LLM-assisted text analysis to examine narratives surrounding critical raw materials and climate transitions. Conceptually, the project explored the intersections between Design for Values, decoloniality, extractivism, and global justice. Socially, it fostered new co-creative engagements among researchers, Indigenous organizations, artists, students, and civil society actors, creating a foundation for future research and allyship initiatives.
An important objective of the project was to build bridges with partners whose voices are often underrepresented in discussions of technology and energy transitions. Through these efforts, the project established partnerships with Indigenous organization MABIKAs Foundation, laying the groundwork for the NWO-funded Indigenous Liberation Month × Just Transitions initiative within the Klimaatonderzoek Initiatief Nederland (KIN) network. Bringing together Indigenous leaders, researchers, engineers, artists, students, and civil society organizations, this initiative resulted in a range of public engagement activities, including the co-created documentary Re-rooting: Indigenous Perspectives on Just Transitions.
The project also fostered co-creative engagement with the Ecuadorian arts collective SolipsisArt, whose work covers themes of territory, extractivism, memory, and social justice. These exchanges informed the development of the VSD Envisioning Cards: Global Extension Set, an extension of the Value Sensitive Design toolkit that introduces themes such as extractivism, colonial histories, power and privilege, positionally, global inequalities, and plural knowledge systems.
The closing event presents these interconnected project outcomes through a combination of presentations, documentary screening, and interactive engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the project’s findings, explore new tools for Design for Values practice, and discuss future directions for integrating decolonial justice perspectives into engineering, design, and climate transitons research.
Programme
12:00–12:30 – Welcome and lunch
12:30–12:50 – Introduction and project reflections
12:50–13:30 – Presentation:
Exploring Biases in the Western Development Paradigm: Traces of Green Colonialism in Engineering and Policy Discourse
13:30–13:45 – Break
13:45–15:15 – Documentary Screening:
Re-rooting: Indigenous Perspectives on Just Transitions
15:15–15:30 – Break
15:30–17:00 – Interactive Workshop:
VSD Envisioning Cards: The Global Extension Set
17:00–17:30 – Final discussion and closing reflections

Registration
Please register via this link.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact the project lead:
Anna Melnyk
We warmly welcome researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone interested in Design for Values, climate transitions, environmental justice, and decolonial approaches to technology and design.
We look forward to reflecting together on the project’s outcomes and future directions for Design for Values research and practice.
With gratitude to Verónica Alvear (@vero_tifa), @SolipsisArt, for the artwork featured in this event communication.

2nd Symposium: AI and the Future of Mental Healthcare
2026-07-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Comissiekamer 3, Aula TU Delft
About the symposium
The 2nd Symposium: AI and the Future of Mental Healthcare brings together perspectives from artificial intelligence, clinical psychology, ethics, and value-sensitive design to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of AI in mental healthcare.
The symposium is organised by the TU Delft SIG Mental Health and Tech and includes keynote lectures, a workshop, and a poster session for PhD students and postdocs.

Programme highlights
Albert Ali Salah (Utrecht University)
Designing computational tools for behavioral and clinical science
Claudi Bockting (Amsterdam UMC)
Between Therapy and Threat: AI’s Complex Impact on Mental Health
Lavinia Marin (TU Delft)
Workshop: Mind the Bot! A Value-Sensitive Design Workshop for Mental Health AI Chatbots

Poster session
PhD students and postdocs are invited to participate in the poster session.
Abstract submission deadline: 12 June 2026

Participation & registration
Registration and the call for posters are available via the symposium registration page.
Find more information here.

Questions
For questions about the symposium, please contact:Iulia Lefter: i.lefter@tudelft.nl

Workshop: Let’s (Re-)Imagine Designing for the Value of Dignity
2026-10-07 09:30 - 12:30 | Comissiekamer 3, Aula TU Delft
About the workshop:
Dignity is a fundamental human value, described in design literature as the principle that ultimately grounds and justifies our actions. Yet there is no shared understanding of what dignity means in practice, making its translation into concrete design decisions difficult and contested.
This lack of conceptual clarity is precisely why the Special Interest Group – Design for Dignity (SIG-D4D) was established. We see dignity as a dynamic, context-dependent, and underexplored value that requires collective reflection and experimentation.
That is why, in this first workshop, we invite you to join us in exploring how dignity can be understood and applied within and beyond design contexts. Through reflection, discussion, and exchange, we aim to connect diverse perspectives and begin shaping a shared foundation for future work.

During the workshop, participants will:

Reflect on their own understanding and interpretation of dignity
Explore how dignity is expressed across languages, contexts, and experiences
Explore dignity and designing for it in one of the following cases:

Dignity in education
Dignity in public transport services
Dignity in migration

Identify and discuss other application fields where dignity is at stake
Exchange perspectives across disciplines to surface shared challenges and opportunities
Contribute to identifying areas of interest for future collaboration within SIG-D4D

Registration:
Please register here.

Workshop Details:
Audience: Researchers interested in or curious about considering dignity as a value in their design practice.
Date: Wednesday 7th of October 2026.
Time: 9h30 – 12:30 including Lunch time.
