Enabling family connections through fluid play

Smartphones and digital devices are ingrained within modern family life. While they provide many benefits they also create a social gap between parents and children. Interests of parents and children often do not align, as parents tend to prefer physical activities, showing a reluctance towards the prefered digital play of children (Hoika, E.,...

The Future Retail Experience: Engaging shoppers through experiential retail concepts

The aim of this project was to propose several explorative experiential retail concepts which could strengthen and/or induce the value of the physical retail environment for millennials within developing omnichannel strategies. Additionally, such experiences desirably enhanced the bond between consumer, brand, and product through immersive...

Developing an outdoors game for children

One out of seven primary school children is suffering from overweight and sometimes even obesity. This is caused by a lack of physical activity and unhealthy food diets. Children playing outdoors is positively and significantly associated with the child’s physical activity. Peerdrops is a small Dutch company that creates product, graphic and...

Stimulating elderly in care homes to move using Tovertafel games

As the pressure on elderly care is strong, preventive policy for health care is therefore essential. The goal of prevention for elderly is to keep older adults healthy, autonomous and independent as long as possible, even when they already need daily care. A preventive measure which is increasingly gaining popularity over the past few years is...

On the modelling of installation effects on laterally cyclic loaded monopiles

Monopiles are being used more extensively for offshore wind turbine foundation. Current guidelines on the construction of fixed offshore foundations still base the design of laterally loaded piles in sand on empirical data (p-y curves), originating from the oil and gas industry, from field tests executed in 1974 on 0.61 m diameter piles. However...

Creating the perfect outdoor game experience

What if you mix (indoor) gaming with outdoor play? Nowadays children spend much more time indoor instead of outside, playing with friends. Outdoor play is good for both physical as mental development of children, and this problem was the foundation of this design project. Two years ago the idea was risen by Auke Ferwerda to develop an outdoor...

Spatial-social solutions for Dutch post war neighbourhoods

A research for the effects of interventions in Dutch post war neighbourhoods from a physical as well as a social and economic point of view. The The Hague neighbourhood Mariahoeve is used as a case to make a design for improvement.

ARCHTCTR 2.0: Phyrtual Space: A personal fluid architectural interface between the virtual and the physical

Everything is getting more and more connected nowadays. Information in all kinds of different media are being digitized and made available increasingly global and widespread by the development of computers and the internet in the last three decades. This enabled the explosive growth of a hyperlinked network of information. By the increasing...