Smart Bench: A Speculative Design to Create Critical Awareness of Data-driven Nudging in the Smart City

The Smart Bench is a speculative design aiming to create critical awareness about the social implications of Data-driven Nudging in the Smart City. The project originated from a critical perspective on Smart City as a leading urban development paradigm. Many cities labelling themselves as smart cities competitively implemented advanced...

Participation in Speculative Design

There is a more than ever need to be critical of the present and imagine future possibilities. Several critical approaches to design place its efforts in creating artefacts for critical reflection. As part of the spectrum, speculative design is an approach that, through speculation into the possible, aims to challenge the status quo, explore the...

Escape the Smart City: Critical pervasive game to question the AI-surveillance infrastructure in the smart city

Escape the Smart City is a critical pervasive game for creating awareness about the implications of AI-surveillance technology in the smart city. It responds to growing concerns over the mass deployment of surveillance cameras that are enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) which are turning the cities into digital panopticons (Sadowski &amp...

Redefining wine retail experience for the Chinese Wine Illiterates

Fastest growing wine market “Chinese wine market has been growing steadily between 2008-2012, by a constant growth rate of 137%” (Wang, 2018). The importation of wine is expected to grow from 2 million cases in 2007 to 50 million cases in 2017. The potential market is estimated at between 50 million and 250 million Chinese drinkers (Hays, 2015)....

Experiencing the City: Towards a more pigeon inclusive Smart City

This graduation thesis critically reflects on the Smart City. It critiques certain values embedded in the technology used to source and analyse data, and manage the city, when it comes to the world of human experience. The theoretical critique is eventually expressed in a critical design. Applying the values of the Smart City to the feral pigeon.

Value driven mobility design for future cities: a vision for 2040

After it’s invention in 1886, the car has left us with amazing opportunities and progress. But it has become very clear that today’s degree of car use is not sustainable in terms of land and energy use and emissions. Big developments are about to shake up the automotive world, but they do not bring the change that is needed. A traffic jam of...

Diastole Systole: Designing a gamified online health ckeck platform, that persuades users to improve their lifestyle with tailor made challenges and humorous characters

This project is originated from a starting business relationship between &ranj and NIPED, under the management of &Samhoud. In this project &ranj is in the task of gamifying the Persoonlijke Gezondheidscheck (PGC), an online health check platform designed by NIPED, to better persuade their users to change their behaviour and improve...

Design for social cohesion: Design to reduce polarization - A design intervention to increase social cohesion

This country will be hugely polarized by 2050, if we do not act. The focus of the public debate is shifting towards differences between groups and people. Politicians exploit popular sentiment for their own success, they polarize in an attempt to give every group a voice. If we keep repeating and emphasizing our differences, it becomes a self...