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Veldgids Studio

With the Veldgids Studio, I am exploring how good facilitation and process guidance can become accessible to more people. And how experienced facilitators can get more powerful tools to discover new possibilities.

How might increasingly capable AI help us guide change more effectively?

That is the question I want to test. I come from design, work on change from the ground up and see technology changing fast. In the Studio I explore what happens when those three come together.

I am developing a digital workspace that helps people design a process around its purpose, understand conversations and prepare the next meaningful encounter. I am building and experimenting with it. It is not yet a finished, working application.

From purpose to meeting

What do people want to make possible together, and what does that ask of the next meeting? In the Studio I look at how AI can help map possible routes, sharpen questions and prepare a gathering. What happens there can be a reason to look again at the purpose or the process.

  1. The change
  2. The process
  3. The meeting
What happens can change the direction again.

A project memory you can question

A report preserves one meeting. In a longer process, I also want to see how statements, questions and decisions relate to one another. I am building a project memory that keeps sources, analyses and provisional insights connected.

A hand lifts a translucent sketch sheet with a tentative connection. The separate source cards beneath remain visible.

AI helps retrieve material and explore possible connections. With every reading, I want to be able to return to the words it is based on. When the reading changes, the source remains available.

The approach I am developing

  1. A question from the ongoing work. What do we need to look at again to move forward?
  2. Back to earlier sources. What was said, by whom and in what context?
  3. A provisional reading. What seems connected? What challenges that reading?
  4. A next judgment. What do we want to explore or try with the people involved?

This describes the approach. It is not a completed project record.

Trying things in real settings

The research into conversations over time in Doesburg is one of the strands this development grows from. There, I placed separate analyses alongside one another to explore what becomes visible across several meetings.

I develop and test these ways of working in my own practice. Their shape changes as I learn what helps with preparation, perspective and next steps. What proves useful and can be shared becomes part of the Social AI Field Guide.

About how I design and make

DoesburgCare shaped by the neighbourhood itself.In Doesburg, I co-facilitate how residents and professionals shape care in their community, and develop a way of reading conversations alongside one another.Read the case Mental Health NetworksPeople first, then AI.What I contributed to mental-health network sessions through session design, recognisable drafts and prompts that had to learn from practice.Read the case Published perspectiveThe Social AI Field GuideThe Social AI Field Guide is about using AI thoughtfully when people work on change together: in workshops, co-creation and long-term change processes.Read about the Field Guide

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