Design Guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration in a Painting Context: Authority, Autonomy, and Delegation

This project focuses on developing design guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration around Authority, Autonomy, and Control in the outdoor painting context. While painting as an activity is something most of us have done and understand, working professionals have a sense of pride and skill in their motions that would be difficult to replace with...

Another Demansion: Insight into the life of people with Young Onset Dementia and their relatives in order to design a care home facilitating them in their well-being

Dementia is a familiar brain disorder, generally seen as a disease of the elderly and care homes are designed as such. However, also people between 30 and 65 can get dementia, called Young Onset Dementia and are overlooked now in architecture. Due to the different life stage in which the disease occurs, these mainstream facilities do not fit...

Nature connectedness through living artefacts: A case study for Urban Reef

Cities have witnessed the disappearance of natural habitats, putting biodiversity at risk and leaving citizens with a diminished connection to nature. Establishing a strong human-nature connection is crucial for sustainable transformations in society, influencing sustainable norms, values, and policy decisions.<br/><br/>Urban Reef, a company...

A sustainable product ideation guide for food manufacturers

In most food manufacturing research and design (R&amp;D) projects, sustainability is not considered until the scalability testing or production phase, when cost reduction is the objective or when many consumers directly request it. However R&amp;D teams are highly focused on their predetermined goals at the beginning of the process. It is...

Robot Code of Conduct for Automated Dairy Farming: Steering the Design of Pleasurable, Cohesive and Appropriate Behaviours for Lely Automated Portfolio

Robot systems are essentially a new species spreading around us, one that we willingly designed and introduced. Neither a natural species nor a mere human artefact. We have limited information about these smart agents. What do they want, what do you need from us, and how can we find a common ground of understanding to enhance each other through...

Park makers: Stimulating the self-management of public parks

The stimulation of citizen participation has led to the upraise of bottom-up citizen communities. These communities grow from idealism but often have a hard time to become a durable initiative when the first challenges arise and the enthusiasm has disappeared. This graduation aims to gather an understanding of how citizen initiatives can be...

Mafundi Expo: Presenting an Alternative Housing Typology to the Informal Craftsmen of Dar es Salaam

Housing supply in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by self-help housing in informal settlements as a consequence of rapid urban population growth in the absence of sufficient formal housing supply, bringing forth sub-standard housing conditions. Government housing strategies have not been able to halt the informal production of housing, as...