STRATEGIC DESIGN SCENARIOS - Key Persons

Christophe Gouache

Job Titles:
  • Senior Designer & Researcher / @Sds Lab
Designer & researcher at Strategic Design Scenarios since 2012, Christophe studied industrial product design and responsible innovation and received his Master from The École de Design Nantes Atlantique, Nantes, France. His focus is on sustainable and social innovation, collaborative and participative scenario building, participatory foresight (prospective scenarios of future sustainable ways of living) and service design. He is working on various projects of public policy design and public innovation with regional authorities and ministries, as well as action-research projects at EU level (H2020). Lately, he has been collaborating with the French Ministry of Justice on the care of youth delinquents under Juvenile Justice, as well as with the French Ministry of Sustainability on designing tools that allow citizens and local elected officials to co-create future visions for local sustainable development programmes (Visions+21 - Agenda 21). Christophe gives trainings at the National Institute for Territorial Studies (INET) (Strasbourg, France) and teaches "Public design and innovation" at Sciences Po (Lille, France). He is also Lead Expert of an URBACT network of European cities (Active Citizens) on participatory democracy and citizen participation.

François Jégou

Job Titles:
  • Director of SDS / Senior Designer and Researcher / @Sds Lab
  • Professor of Design at La Cambre
François Jégou created and leads the Brussels-based sustainable innovation lab Strategic Design Scenarios with 25 years of experience in strategic design, participative scenario building and new product-services system definition. François is active in various fields and research projects from investigating social innovation for sustainable living in China, India, Brazil and Africa with UNEP to European research projects focussing sustainable lifestyles 2050, exploring the future of innovation or building a deliberative platform on nanotech. François is professor of design at La Cambre, Brussels, Design manager of the Laboratory of Uses and Innovative Practices of the City of Design of Saint-Etienne and co-founder of the DESIS international network of Design Schools for Social Innovation and Development sustainable. Its latest publication, Social Innovation in Cities, reviews how the more than 500 cities that have participated in URBACT Thematic Networks are changing their governance processes to better engage with citizens and local stakeholders.