Grappling with Diversity in Research Through Design

Since its introduction, Research through Design (RtD) has taken on a wide variety of forms. Currently, there is a lack of clarity about what connects and separates different RtD approaches. Several attempts have been made to clarify these matters, often in the form of a top-down categorization. Here we start on a different path, one that is open...

Ambiguity and Open-Endedness in Behavioural Design

Design is increasingly concerned with changing people’s behaviours. A common characteristic to behavioural design approaches is their directionality: products<br/>provide clarity about or guidance towards the designer’s intended behavioural outcome. In this paper we propose an alternative perspective that emphasizes<br/>ambiguity (i.e. affording...

Atmospheric methane removal by methane-oxidizing bacteria immobilized on porous building materials

Biological treatment using Methane Oxidizing Bacteria (MOB) immobilized on carrier materials is considered as the best solution to mitigate methane emission at low concentrations (e.g., in animal houses). The porosity of the support is one of the most important factors for an efficient removal of methane. In animal houses, building materials...

Reducing uncertainties in a wind-tunnel experiment using Bayesian updating

We perform a fully stochastic analysis of an experiment in aerodynamics. Given estimated uncertainties on the principle input parameters of the experiment, including uncertainties on the shape of the model, we apply uncertainty propagation methods to a suitable CFD model of the experimental setup. Thereby we predict the stochastic response of...

Releasing the potential of BIM in construction education

When setting out to teach a group of construction students the lecturer is faced with a class who have a variety of learning style preferences and have brains with a variable ability to process information and that ability varies further with the type of processing required. They also come to the class with varying previous experience and...

Plasmas for Transition Delay

This paper describes the experimental investigation of the properties of Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) actuators aimed at transition delay techniques. A wide range of geometrical configurations are tested as well as several electrical operational conditions. For the majority of the measurements statistical data for the induced flow field...

Net scantlings and structural reliability

A plea for large-scale testing

Barrierewerking van infrastructuur: A2 en Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal barriere voor inwoners can Utrecht-Leidsche Rijn?

Sociale effecten van verkeer: Een overzicht

Agreements on sustainable building and development in the urban planning process

System reliability analysis of Jack-Up structures possibilities and frustrations