June 8, 20265 min
#66 - Meet our new host: Eva Faes
A new voice, same Service Design Podcast! Laurens Somers is passing the mic to Eva Faes, service and social designer at Knight Moves.
Episodes
69
Latest episode
Jun 2026
Language
EN
About the show
In this podcast Laurens Somers and Jeroen Depuydt, Service Designers at Knight Moves Belgium have conversations about Service Design with practitioners from around the world. This podcast is produced in collaboration with the Service Design Network.
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April 14, 202655 min
#65 - Modernising digital services at scale with Hefen Wong
What does it take to modernise a live government system? Hefen Wong from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower shares how an 18-year-old Employment Pass platform was transformed into a user-centred digital service: through prioritising user value, smart use of research, and agile ways of working.
March 9, 202647 min
#64 - Building customer experience with Sheila Kesselaers and Tomas De Preter
We visit Sheila Kesselaers and Tomas De Preter at Reynaers Group HQ: how do they grow the shift to a Customer Experience mindset at a systems company in the world of building elements?
February 2, 202649 min
#63 - Service Design for NORCS with Mia Mo, Robyn Carino, and Samiha Essakhi
We talk with Mia Mo, Robyn Carino, and Samiha Essakhi as they take us through the innovative model they co-created to integrate health, social, and physical supports directly within Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCS).
November 17, 20251 hr 0 min
#62 - Making waves with Maarten Raemdonck and Lien Dewitte
We talk with Maarten Raemdonck, Head of Innovation at Aquafin, and Lien Dewitte from Leap Forward, about how innovation takes root in a large, technical organisation. From bold early experiments to building lasting change, they share honest lessons from Aquafin’s journey to make innovation part of everyday work in a company that treats the waste water of 5 million people daily.
September 17, 202554 min
#61 - Innovating healthcare with Brian Desplinter and Jurgen De Klerck
In this episode, we visit AZ Groeninge in Kortrijk to meet Brian Desplinter and Jurgen De Klerck, the duo behind a unique collaboration between healthcare and telecom. From private 5G networks to co-designed care services, we explore how design thinking is driving real change in a clinical setting.
June 3, 20251 hr 11 min
#60 - Digitizing Buildings with Sun Ah Hwang
What if your home had a memory? In this episode, PhD researcher Sun Ah Hwang joins us to explore Digital Building Logbooks — the “health cards” of buildings. From DIY dreams to data-driven renovation advice, we discuss how DBLs are reshaping our approach to sustainability, ownership, and building design across Europe.
January 15, 202559 min
#59 - Prototyping for the planet with Dr. Samuel Huber
Dr. Samuel Huber shares his takes on how to design better futures from a planetary perspective. Being both a design entrepreneur and researcher, he utilises his academic side for real-life prototyping of strategies.
December 23, 20241 hr 8 min
#58 - Building strong local communities with Djoera Eerland
How do you engage active neighbours in saving energy together with the rest of their neighbourhood? How can you improve social cohesion in local communities? Djoera Eerland shares the challenges and learnings of kickstarting neighbourhood collectives at scale, with Buurkracht.
November 12, 202446 min
#57 - Regenerating the future with Coral Michelin
“All of Latin America is on fire at the moment. We’re losing thousands of hectares of ecosystems…”This is how Coral brings us to Brazil at the start of our conversation. She is currently working for re.green, an organisation that restores tropical forests at scale, and she recently published her book on Ecosystemic Design.
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