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<\/a>Carney is, “like all designers,” optimistic by nature. “Philips determines the future and we as designers will\u00a0deliver it. We do this, certainly in the last three or four years, in cooperation with our engineers and business people. No longer are we operating in isolation to create a product, but constantly building new prototypes, testing them in real life, ask for feedback and then iterate on the further development. Only so you get valuable and meaningful solutions.”<\/p>\nCarney stands in a long tradition of chief designers at Philips. It all started around 1925, when Anton Philips offered the young Louis Kalff the opportunity to literally design<\/em>\u00a0his vision for\u00a0the Philips brand. He would stay\u00a0until 1960, when\u00a0successively Rein Veensema, Knut Yran, Robert Blaich and Stefano Mariana took over the baton. Philips Museum currently displays an exhibition of their 90-year tradition<\/a>. “That legacy gives us a strength unfamiliar to\u00a0many other technology companies, especially the ones in Silicon Valley. But”, Carney rapidly adds, “it is the future that counts. We design the future.<\/em>”<\/p>\n A global team of trendwatchers headed by Claudia Lieshout assists Carney in his choices. Then there is his own team, 500 designers spread across 19 studios in 9 countries. “A motley collection of design disciplines. Where design used to be\u00a0just\u00a0graphic design, we now\u00a0distinguish more than thirty different competencies. Data visualization designers, interaction designers, human factors specialists, trend analysts, service designers, to name just a few… And on top of that\u00a0we always look for cooperation with others. Always co-creating and never stop\u00a0listening to the user, that’s our\u00a0key to success.” A success which is recognized by others as well:\u00a0“Last year we were honoured with no less than 156 design prizes, including RedDot and iF awards.”<\/p>\n Co-creation also works with the major hospitals, both in the Eindhoven region\u00a0(with the Maxima Medical Centre for example Philips is conducting neonatology lab) and\u00a0elsewhere. Carney: “For instance, look at Westchester Medical Center in New York and MacKenzie Health in Ontario. Both are great examples of what cooperation can bring – in time, in human beings, but also in money. The whole process is one of co-creation, together we are working to find the\u00a0solutions that are needed. 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The designs are as\u00a0remarkable as they are recognizable: every Dutch home, from the early 1900’s until recently, has elements of Philips design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":501613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[490,484,2521,5614],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-48578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-design-en","tag-innovation","tag-philips-en","tag-sean-carney"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Schermafbeelding-2016-02-12-om-01.35.32.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["design<\/a>","innovation<\/a>","Philips<\/a>","Sean Carney<\/a>"],"unlinked":["design<\/span>","innovation<\/span>","Philips<\/span>","Sean Carney<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2016","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2016 3:02 pm","modified":"Updated on February 13, 2016 3:02 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=48578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>At Philips, this future is largely dominated by the search for a healthier world. And with success, Carney tells\u00a0with pride. “In the museum, the counter is currently still at 1.7 billion, but it needs to be adjusted because now I can say that we improved the lives of two billion people. Two Billion! And all thanks to our devices, our technology and our design. We create a better world. If we are looking for new staff to help us with that, I always ask\u00a0them this kind of questions: how do you really want to use your talent? By saving\u00a0babies allover the world\u00a0or just by creating something fashionable?”<\/p>\n<\/a>