Miriam Iliohan Email Address

Founding Fellow and Coach Faculty Innovation Fellows Program

Latin American Student Association

Miriam is co-founder and Manager DesignLab of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her broad (international) network, experience, knowledge and enthusiasm in setting-up experimental ecosystems has brought Miriam many other roles. She is part of the advisory committee for student teams, member of the steering committee for the (social) Entrepreneurial challenge, speaker and moderator at high-level international events/converstations. In addition, she is Founding Fellow & Coach for the Faculty Innovation Fellows at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford University and Mentor for the University Innovation Fellows program. As part of DesignLab's Management Team she focuses on the operations and implementation of the Responsible Futuring approach. Responsible Futuring is DesignLab’s transdisciplinary approach to co-shape desirable futures, by embracing transdisciplinary and stimulating moral imagination. Currently developing a toolkit and experience, as well as an educational program around Responsible Futuring that we are applying with different Dutch and international organizations both in the public and private sectors. Sharing her experiences, she gives her network the opportunity to gain insights into investigating new ways of working, collaborating, teaching, learning and conducting research. In addition by using challenges from partners, she brings viewpoints from (international) scientists, entrepreneurs, students, citizens and government officials together to co-create the futures we want to live in.