Youth participation in the energy transition: Designing a new approach

In 2015, due to decentralisations in the social domain, municipalities became the key public authorities for youth participation in the Netherlands (RAND Europe, 2021). One year later 66% had made youth participation a policy goal, while 18% was planning to. At that time most municipalities involved young people to some extend in their policy...

Kabelfabriek 2.0: Working and living cabled in the factory

The research booklet presents the topic chosen for the graduation year of the masters of Architecture & Heritage at the Technical University of Delft. The first two quarters of the graduation year were set up as a research phase, which was used as the starting point for the design phase of the second half of the year. “Heritage 4all: Univer...

A Sustainability Roadmap for Derako: The road to a circular future

Derako is a company specialized in designing and manufacturing wooden suspended ceilings, wall panels and façade panels. Derako faces the challenge of high production of waste, over 50% of their bought wood ends up as waste, additionally over 6500 kilograms of plastic waste is being produced. In their industry, Derako is not alone. The...