A provocative call to engage with social and sensory aspects of touch

The social and sensory aspects of touch are critical for human communication, yet the challenges of haptic technology development and a focus on the technological means that digital touch communication often fails to realise the potential and promise of touch. The Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis responds to this through a call to...

Building a collaborative relationship with a travel buddy for multimodal journey planning

As cities are cutting polluting cars off the picture and promoting the use of sustainable transport modes, the number of multimodal journeys that involve more than one transport mode will grow. Intelligent systems and smart assistants will fill in the gap and take their role to guide travelers along their way on the trail of mobility...

A systemic design approach to tackle money laundering

The goal of almost all forms of crime is monetary gain. In serious forms of crime, like drug crime or human trafficking, enormous amounts of money are made. For criminals, this money is not directly usable. Spending it right away in the economy would be too obvious and attract attention from the authorities. Therefore, the dirty money gained by...

A Manifesto for the Just City: Cities for all

“On Monday 29 MARCH at 18:00 (CET/Amsterdam), TU Delft launched the Book "A Manifesto for the Just City", with texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world.<br/>A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension...

Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis

This qualitative exploratory research paper presents a Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis - a provocative call to action to designers, developers and researchers to rethink and reimagine social touch through a deeper engagement with the social and sensory aspects of touch. This call is motivated by concerns that social touch is in a...

The CERTIFIED approach to Human-Centered AI adoption: A framework for agile policymaking to regulate technology

Policymaking regarding Artificial Intelligence is threatened to lag behind, and the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security stated its desire to catch up. The longer we wait, the wider the ‘gap’ will become between regulation and market development. In order to keep AI technology beneficial, a human-centered design approach should be key not only...

Residence of Reunion: The Inclusive City

Social housing for refugee families focussing specifically on three aspects: <br/>1. Designing suitable housing for families within the typology of the gallery flat, <br/>2. Designing for refugees: social and spatial needs of this target group <br/>3. The multicultural floor plan: what can different dwelling cultures add to the standard Dutch...

Towards a simple complex

The current interpretation of sustainability is rather ego centric. We tend to view sustainability as a tool to merely satisfy our own needs for esteem while the bigger picture is often placed in the background. This unconscious and unintended (mis)usage of sustainability is completely wrong and should be changed. Sustainability should become...

Cracks in the language of architecture: an anti-architectural manifesto

ASSUMPTIONS<br/><br/>Still quite far away from visiting the city of interest, Bucharest, a model was the means to subsume personal stories I heard from friends, media reports and interviews as well as resulting subjective expectations on the trip. At the same time it led to the assumption, that all of these stories, but also historical events,...

The societal impact of the emerging quantum technologies: a renewed urgency to make quantum theory understandable

This paper introduces the special issue The societal impact of the emerging quantum technologies as a contribution to a more inclusive societal debate on quantum technologies. It brings together five contributions. Three are authored by quantum technology researchers who give explorations of the possible impacts of quantum technologies on...

JaJakarta - The anarchistic factory as an alternative for squatting

Jabodetabek, the urban agglomeration consisting of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, is the second fastest growing megacity on the planet (Robinson, 2011). Current projections show that Jabodetabek’s population will reach 38 million people in 2030 (Jakarta municipality, 2014). However, this growth will take place in a city that is...

Jajakarta - Tools and strategies to increase the density of Jakarta’s inner-city kampungs

This project is part of a groupproject called Jajakarta, a manifesto to double the population density of Jakarta. Jabodetabek, the urban agglomeration consisting of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, is the second fastest growing megacity on the planet (Robinson, 2011). Current projections show that Jabodetabek’s population will...

Strengthening the Foundations Underlying the Enterprise Engineering Manifesto

The discipline of Enterprise Engineering aims for enterprises to operate as a unified and integrated whole. This discipline therefore adopts the mission to develop theories, models, methods and other artifacts for the analysis, design, implementation and governance of enterprises in a theoretically rigorous and practically relevant manner. The...