Facilitating beginning sewers in making the clothes that truly fit them

This IPD master thesis describes the process of developing the product-service of Maki. Maki is a startup with the focus of making the life of a beginning sewer easier. Currently, beginning sewers have a learning journey full of struggles. <br/><br/>In this project, a design process is described that attempts to design an online learning...

Towards an inclusive and circular HUB: A communication approach that strengthens the relationship between residents and the circular center

Current consumption and production patterns require drastic changes if we want to transition into a circular economy. Accordingly, the Dutch government has set up a nationwide programme that aims to achieve a completely circular economy by 2050 with an interim objective of a 50% reduction in raw materials by 2030. This includes creating a...

An interactive pole for Crooswijkers: Designing low-threshold participation and rebuilding trust

Crooswijk is a neighbourhood in Rotterdam that has been dealing with issues regarding trust in the municipality, and residents have not been participating much anymore. Crooswijkers feel unheard and left in the dark whenever plans are developed and executed. The main challenge that the design should solve: Improve the low level of trust...

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...

Supporting green urban initiatives in local biodiversity improvement: Creating a toolkit for the green pioneers of Rotterdam

The green pioneers of Rotterdam are actively making the city a greener living environment. Through the infrastructure provided by the municipality of Rotterdam, citizens can apply to take over a green space from the municipality or to introduce green elements to the predominantly grey streets in which they live. They not only improve the...

Scaling citizen participation through local energy initiatives: Insights in the roles and contribution of the local energy initiatives in The Hague and a strategy and action repertoire for the municipality of The Hague

Within the Energy Transition, citizen involvement is essential. In the end, we have to change together to succeed within the Energy Transition. Because of the local character of the Energy Transition and a responsibility shift, the municipalities have got the challenging task to increase citizen involvement. Local energy initiatives can be a...

Designing for a circular network: supporting socio-economic initiatives in a local circular community

We have come to a point in time where we can no longer just vision, but must act. We are talking about the transition from waste to material. The normal course of business around raw materials is a heavily environmentally polluting business, which contributes to global warming. In 2015, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement, agreeing to a...

A service design toolkit for a more inclusive energy transition

In project Reyeroord Aardgasvij Service designers work together with the municipality and other stakeholders to stimulate the energy transition in the neighbourhood Reyeroord in Rotterdam. Their goal is to develop interventions in the form of neighbourhood meetings, campaigns, and other activities that aim to activate the residents of Reyeroord...

Fruitful friction as a strategy to scale social innovations

New approaches to overcome complex societal problems of today are the need of the hour, especially to enable the transition to a sustainable future (Concilio &amp; Tosoni, 2019). Here, social innovations present new ways to tackle global problems on a local scale; that when put together, can create a transformation on a systemic level while...

A Design Tool-Box to Scale Social Innovations from one context to another: Unfolding the Scaling Journey of Designscapes Initiatives

In the last decades, more and more complex societal and environmental challenges are rising. Social Innovation is an emerging and promising framework to tackle complex global challenges at the local level of urban contexts. These projects are socially, culturally and contextually embedded and highly dependent on the local ecosystem of resources....

Governance Processes in Smart City Initiatives: Exploring the implementation of two Dutch Smart City Projects: TRANSFORM-Amsterdam and TRIANGULUM-Eindhoven

The Smart City concept is becoming a new urban development strategy. Dutch cities, like Amsterdam and Eindhoven, are trying to develop Smart Urban Districts, driven by European funding. In this effort Practitioners and academics notify many barriers towards successful implementation of Smart City initiatives. Apart from financial, technical,...

Ik ben ster(k): A peer-to-peer talent development platform empowering young adults

Globalization and the boom of new media technologies have rapidly changed the social dynamics of contemporary cities: increased mobility and migration waves determine new relationships between diverse ethnic groups who now share common urban spaces and facilities, while new mobile technologies allow the formation of hybrid (between virtual and...

Hybrid zones the ideal place for contact: Design for communication in streets with no a hybrid zone

Contact between neighbours is a logical starting point for making a neighbourhood a pleasant place to live. A scientific research has shown that the area in streets where most contact between neighbours takes place is the hybrid zone. Hybrid zones are the zones between one’s private space (ones house) and the public space (the street); things...

An application as a platform for a Street of the Future

Creating a platform to inspire collaboration and communicate sustainable solutions in a sustainable street called the Street of the Future.

Participation and Co-creation in the Public Domain

This master thesis report with the topic “participation and co-creation in the public domain”, represents the final project of the master Design for Interaction at the faculty Industrial Design Engineering, University of Technology Delft (TUDelft) and was executed for the STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends in The Hague (STT). The...

Users Inspire Innovation: Understanding the user to inspire innovation in the telecom sector

Innovation is a procedure by which the thought process is changed through the introduction of new ideas, useful applications or new discoveries. In product (or service) development this means devising a product or service concept that satisfies the customer’s unmet needs. The goal of this project was to show how understanding the user will help...

Social Media Framework to support client-company relationship

Companies have started using Social Media, but in many cases without knowing its benefits and what kind of commitment it requires from them. As a consequence, in many cases, businesses are not dealing with their Social Media presence in a structured way. So despite the availability of all kind of communication tools and applications, a structure...

Decipher the Magic of Visual Thinking in Sessions and Design a Physical Toolkit for JAM visual thinking

The graduation project is a collective project between TUDelft and JAM visual thinking. This study is devoted to unveil the potential of Visual Thinking in business sessions and to eventually improve the effectiveness of the method. JAM visual thinking, a consultancy company based on the Netherlands, features in providing various products from...