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Welcome to the Collaboration for Impact magazine (CfI). This magazine shows the added value of applying design research in, with and beyond the creative industry. The stories presented here are witnesses of the fact that multiple value creation urgently needs discipline and boundary crossing collaboration. These stories also show that we need to learn more about these collaborations to increase their potential impact and why we should stay curious, step out of our comfort zone, inspire each other, and create the space to do so.

Collaboration for Impact magazine (CfI) celebrates the contribution of applied design research to creating impact on the challenges of our society. How to read “impact”? Impact can be interpreted as multiple value creation (meervoudige waardecreatie), as simultaneously designing different types of value, such as economic, social, cultural, ecological or intellectual value. Applying design research requires a context and a purpose.
Therefore, it needs partners and partnerships as well, to have an impact in the real world. This magazine and the related exhibition at Dutch Design Week ’22 is a shared reflection on these collaborations and partnerships and on the impact of values created for individuals, communities, institutions and organisations.