Circularity of the Everyday: A Pattern Language for the Transition towards a Circular Food System of the Everyday Life in Schalkwijk

The current linear food system in the Netherlands has a negative impact on the environment, requiring almost ten times the biocapacity the country has to offer. The food sector plays a big role in generating this inequality - this overconsumption, and of the entire food supply chain up to a third of food waste is generated by the consumer. The...

Space-making, Playing it Forward: Using language in co-creative participatory urban processes to access and value the ‘unconventional‘ while also building citizen literacy

The project aims to develop a co-creative approach to participatory urban planning and design for improved socio-spatial justice through co-creation. The project is situated within a broader context of ‘Them vs Us’ conflicts including rigid social hierarchies of coloniality, caste, class, and expertise that limit the extent to which and what...

Flourishing Foodvalley: Pattern language as a co-design method to approach the transition towards circular agricultural systems in a hybrid landscape.

This thesis explores the possibility of circularity to regenerate the degraded agricultural systems of the Foodvalley region. The Foodvalley is a regional network organization, consisting of eight municipalities situated partly in the province of Utrecht and partly the province of Gelderland. Circularity is used to describe a way in which...