Eating and drinking in Dutch hospice care: Coping difficulties and conflicts

People with a life-limiting illness, and everyone closely involved, face many struggles throughout the illness. One of those struggles is related to the diminishing appetite for food and drinks. In Dutch hospice care institutions this struggle has also become apparent with their residents. When they see those near and dear urge their loved one...

Design for attitude-behavior consistency: A study on sustainable meat consumption

This research and design graduation project revolves around two topics: sustainable meat consumption and the impact design can have on attitude-behavior consistency. The project is a collaboration between Wageningen UR Livestock Research (WUR) and Delft University of Technology. WUR is currently seeking solutions to increase the sustainability...

A delicious time at Hills & Mills

This thesis is the result of a master graduation project for the master Design for Interaction at Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. For the café Hills & Mills (located in Delft) a concept was created to solve the problem of getting customers at quiet times, e.g. between 3-5PM. After having done customer research it...

Food for thought: Designing emotional goal engagement using paradoxical concerns

The project consisted of recurrent research and design cycles during which a tool has been developed to communicate the inspiring nature of conflicting emotional concerns and suggest ways on how to adopt them in specific design projects. Within this process, a design assignment given by Studio Katja Gruijters has been used as a case study to...