Anouk Geenen
Anouk Geenen works at the intersection of societal transitions, futures thinking, and design research. Her work combines creativity, participation, and critical reflection to explore more just and sustainable pathways for change.
Anouk Geenen is a medior scientist integrator at TNO, where she specializes in futures thinking, system innovation, and societal transitions related to sustainability and digitalization. Her work focuses on how people make sense of complex societal challenges and how participatory and creative methods can support transformative change. Through her research, she explores how people, technologies, and institutions interact in processes of societal change, with a particular focus on energy transition, climate action, and emerging technologies. In 2023, she obtained her PhD in technology ethics and design research with a dissertation on socio-technical controversies in smart cities. During het PhD trajectory, she initiated an art-work emphasizing inclusion and diversity in the portrait gallery. She finds it important to bridge the worlds of research and art, in order to generate new perspectives and richer responses to complex societal challenges.