Future life stories: The neighbourhood Nieuw Waldeck in 2040 from the perspective of the aging society

Societies are aging. This means the older population is not only growing in size, but also in proportion. Apart from this, generations are changing. The elderly of the future will in all probability not have the same needs as the elderly of today. These changes lead to new challenges for society and ask for new solutions spatially and socially....

Designing Comfort for People Dealing with Alopecia

This Master Thesis describes a graduation project developed to investigate how to help people when disrupted life events occur and how to create strategies to empower them in coping with the situation. It is in connection with the research developed by the PhD candidate Patrizia D’Olivo. To date not many strategies were developed to empower...

Plezant: Improving the social interaction between elderly in institutional care settings

Activity plays an important role in maintaining health and avoiding excess disabilities in later life. This is not only true for physical activity, but also for mental activity and the according mental health. Example of a beneficial activity that keeps the brain healthy and preserves mental functionality is social activity or in other words...

Design for Integration

Design for Integration; How Heineken can become a design-led brand.

Design a sustainable and future proof service-portfolio roadmap for I-Plus to adopt future technological and innovative developments in the next 5 years

In the world of communication a lot of developments are emerging and consumers have the need for faster communication. There are increasingly more ways of communicating with each other and the developments for these new ways of communicating are not stopping. What will be the way of communicating in the upcoming five years? That is a question...

Ontevredenheid in de Nederlandse bouw: Een onderzoek naar het sociale interactieproces tussen partijen