From binary to singular: The AGN PSO J334.2028+1.4075 under the high-resolution scope

Context. PSO J334.2028+1.4075 (PSO J334) is a luminous quasar located at redshift z = 2.06. The source gained attention when periodic flux density variations were discovered in its optical light curve. These variations were initially interpreted as the variability due to the orbital motion of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) residing...

Towards a Design (Research) Framework with Generative AI

This one day workshop will explore the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in design research and practice. Generative technologies are developing rapidly and many designers are using them. Yet, there remains little published work on the use of GenAI in design. Our goal is to not only showcase the potential of GenAI for design,...

Design Inquiry Through Data

The emergence of the internet and subsequent massive data collection and storage is creating vast opportunities for design research and practice. In this dissertation, we investigate the interrelationship between design and data science practices and explore data as a new creative lens for design inquiry. While digital data has been increasingly...

Sustainable Assessment Tools for Higher Education Institutions: Guidelines for Developing a Tool for China

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in both early and mature stages of sustainable development (SD) have been moving toward sustainability. Methods for assessing SD have been developed from global and regional contexts to support sustainability efforts. The purpose of this paper is to formulate guidelines as input to develop a sustainable...

Developing a Design Inquiry Method for Data Exploration

The increasing availability of large-scale datasets such as sensor data or social media data and increasingly accessible data science tools create unique<br/>opportunities for design. However, the relationship between data science practices and design methods is still underdeveloped. In this paper, we propose that data exploration activities can...

Hacking, Making, and Prototyping for Social Change

Even though emerging city-makers are increasingly organized to trigger social changes, it is still hard to apprehend their real power to transform space and the way we live together. In this chapter, we explore how designerly approaches, such as hacking, making, and prototyping, can empower emerging city-makers to trigger a broader change and...

Data Exploration for Generative Design Research

The current work elaborates upon a Generative Data Exploration method, which is a design technique aiming at supporting designers in integrating data in their design activities. Digital data offers new opportunities in all sort of professional domains, yet existing approaches and tools to manipulate data are predominantly targeted at data...

Prototyping for Citizen Engagement: Workshop outcomes Design and the City Conference, 22 April 2016

This document aims to bring together snippets from the Prototyping Citizen Engagement workshop that happened at the Design and the City conference in Amsterdam, on 22 April 2016.<br/><br/>We wish to have this document be a summary of the workshop, consisting of snapshots of the discussions that went into several directions along citizen...

From quantified self to quantified neighbourhood

Future developments of vessel traffic services in the Chinese Waters. 2nd version

Future developments of vessel traffic services in the Chinese Waters. 1st version