“…SDS is a design studio working at local, regional, european and international levels…”                                                                                                                                                                      

Close partners

Architempo Comediastra, Belgium
Bruxelles Environnement, Brussels, Belgium
Cité du Design, Saint-Étienne, France
Danish Board of Technology (DBT), Copenhagen, Danemark
Égérie Research, Belgium
ENSAV La Cambre, Belgium
ENSCI Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Paris, France
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
IGEAT – ULB (Institute for Environmental Management and Land-Use Planning, Free University of Bruxelles), Belgium
INET – Institut National des Etudes Territoriales, Strasbourg, France
La 27e Région, France
LUC, Laboratoire des Usages Collaboratifs, Brussels, Belgium
Métropole Européenne de Lille, France
NewSchool, Norway
PERL Partnership for Research and Education for Responsible Living, Norway
OneEarth, Vancouver, Canada
Politecnico of Milan, Italy
Quadrant Conseil, Paris, France
Resilia Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
Rives Nord, Lille, France
Sciences Po, Lille, France
UPF University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
URBACT, Paris, France

                                                                                                                                                                      

Partners/clients

Aalborg University, Danemark
Ariosz, Hungary
Arthur Bonnet, France
Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
BELSPO Belgium Scientific Policy, Belgium
Brulocalis, Brussels, Belgium
Bruxelles Environnement (BE), Brussels, Belgium
Centre Georges Pompidou, France
City of Agen, France
City of Brussels, Belgium
City of Choisy le Roi, France
City of Ghent, Belgium
City of Lyon, France
City of St Quentin, France
City of Uccle, Belgium
CCN Consumer Citizenship Network, Norway
CNES, Centre National d’Études Spatiales, France
Conseil Départemental de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France
Conseil Départemental de la Mayenne, Laval, France
Conseil Départemental de la Réunion, France
Conseil Régional Champagne-Ardennes, France
Conseil Régional des Hauts-de-France, Lille, France
Conseil Régional Grand Est, Strasbourg, France
Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes, France
Consumers International, CI, UK
ComUE Lille Nord de France, Communauté d’universités et d’établissements Lille Nord de France, France
CPUT, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Informatics & Design, South Africa
CRIOC Centre of Research and Information of Consumer Associations, Belgium
CSCP UNEP Wuppertal Institute, Germany
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
De Montfort University, UK
Department of Industrial Design and Technology, University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana
DG REGIO, European Commission
Doors of Perception, France
Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, Netherlands
Eco 2006, Japan
Econcept, Germany
Ecores, Belgium
Ecovala, Finland
EDF R&D, France
Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, The Netherlands
EST, Energy Saving Trust, UK
EBN, European Business and Innovation Centre Network
Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta de l’ULB, Belgium
GAFA, School of Design, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
Hedmark, Hamar University Colledge; Norway
HIT Holon Institute of Technology, Tel-Aviv, Israel
IAV, Orléans, France
ICEDD, Institute for Advice and Studies on Sustainable Development, Belgium
ICS, Institute of Civil Society, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Tokyo, Japan
Imagination Landcater, University of Landcaster, UK
INET, Institut National des Etudes Territoriales, Strasbourg, France
IWEPS, Institut Wallon d’Etudes Prospectives et Statistiques, Namur, Belgique
Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC-IPTS, Sevilla and Foresight & Behavioural Insights Unit, Brussels
K3 University of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
KEF, Knowledge Economy Forum, Lituania
La Cambre Design School, Brussels, Belgium
LTDS Technology & Social Development Laboratory at UFRJ – Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil
MAD, Mode Art and Design, Brussels, Belgium
MaDe In Lab, MIP, School of Management, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Manchester School of Management UMIST, UK
Ministère de la Justice, Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse, France
Ministère de l’Environnement, France
Missions Publiques, France
Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles, Belgium
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, TNO, Netherlands
NID, National Institute of Design of Ahmedabad, India
Pantopicon, Belgium
PASS, Belgium
Philips Design, Netherlands
Pro Materia, Belgium
Regeringskansleit, Government Offices of Sweden, Sweden
Rennes Métropole, France
School of the Arts and Design, University of Nairobi, Kenya
School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
School of Political Sciences (Sciences Po), Lille, France
SIFO, Norway
SPW, Service Public de Wallonie, Belgium
Sociotopie, Lille, France
21 Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
SRISTI/HoneyBee, The Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, India
Terra Futura, Italy
TNO Science & Industry, The Netherlands
UEA, Belgium
UNEP, United Nations Environment Program, France
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, UCLAN, Cyprus
University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
University of Surrey, UK
University of Utrecht (Urban Future Studios), Netherlands
UQÀM
, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada
Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus, VTT, Finland
VAP Voitures à Partager, Belgium
VaasaETT, Finland
VEIL, Victoria Eco Innovation Lab, Australia
Wilkhahn, Germany
WU Institute for managing sustainability, Vienna University, Austria
WWF, UK
Z_punkt The Foresight Company, Germany


“SDS is also (sometimes) consulting for private companies…”

Below is a short list of some of the companies we have been working with :

Barilla pasta (product strategy France/Germany/Italy)
Belgacom Proximus (corporate strategy);
Castorama (co-design with users)
Cité du Design (service design scenarios);
EDF Electricité de France (PSS energy saving);
EDF R&D (strategic design office work);
IFEC (packaging foresight club with 20 companies from all the chain),
Indesit (product strategy);
Lyonnaise des eaux (service design);
Merck Generic (product strategy France/Italy);
PSA Peugeot Citroën (strategic marketing & design);
Pierre Fabre Pharmaceutical (new products strategy);
SPA mineral water (business strategy);
Same/Deutz-Fahr/Lamborghini (PSS scenarios);
TNO Dutch Research & Technology Centre (PSS in augmented health care);
UNILEVER