Lieke Lenaerts, Designer-Researcher

Lieke is a Belgian designer-researcher working at the intersection of design, care and education. Her practice explores how design can function as a tool to inform, engage and create shared experiences. With a strong belief in participatory and inclusive design, she develops research-based interventions, objects and methods that invite interaction and dialogue.

Since 2019, Lieke has been affiliated with the Caring. And Design Research Group at LUCA School of Arts, where she combines research, education and project development. Her PhD research focuses on capturing experiences of living with dementia and translating them into accessible tools and artefacts that foster understanding and empathy. Alongside her doctoral research, she contributed to the set-up of European and Belgian Living Lab initiatives and she teaches in the Productdesign department and the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Response_Able Futures.