Faculty

I am a designer, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of strategic design, futures, and social theory. My practice explores how design can contribute to new ways of governing – not only by improving policies and services, but by asking deeper questions about how we distribute power, build trust, and imagine the future of democracy. 

I have collaborated with organizations including Dark Matter Labs, Berggruen Institute, RadicalxChange, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Group, Partners for a New Economy, Deloitte, OECD, and UN agencies. 

As a part-time lecturer in the School of Design Strategies, I use design-based approaches to turn the classroom into a space for collective inquiry and self-discovery. My teaching engages students' heads, hearts, and hands as different but mutually reinforcing ways of learning. 

Currently working on ...

developing a participatory futures film to expand the collective imagination on what democracy can become

designing a social game as a boundary object to connect young people's lived experiences of AI with institutional decision-making

doing research on the infrastructural conditions that enable collective care

experimenting with learning diaries as alternative modes of assessment 

MSc Strategic Design and Management, Parsons School of Design at The New School

MA Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Sciences Po

LLM Law and Politics of International Security, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Kaur, M., Buisman, H., Bekker, A., and C. McCulloch (2022), "Innovative capacity of governments: A systemic framework", OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, No. 51, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Monteiro, B., Buisman, H., Karle, C., and Bekker. A (2022), “Innovation Playbook”, OECD.