Yoni Lefévre, Design Researcher

Yoni Lefévre is a design researcher and her work mainly involves challenging ageism, unpack taboos, and spark new ways of imagining how we want to grow older through participatory practices. Currently pursuing a PhD, Yoni explores how design can be used to navigate the complexities when addressing intimacy, sexuality, and sexual health together with residents and staff in care homes. She has a background in communication design (Design Academy Eindhoven, NL), in health and well-being research (The Glasgow School of Art, UK), and worked as a design research consultant at STBY (NL) where she contributed to innovative and strategic design projects for local and international clients. Blending her background of social design, industry, and academic research, she creates interdisciplinary research projects that’s always grounded in people's everyday experiences, using design as a tool to reframe ageing—not as a decline, but as a space for playfulness, curiosity, and vulnerability.