The Mystery Game: Engaging families with children in the mysteries of the Mauritshuis

This projectThe aim of this graduation project was to find out how to make the Mauritshuis, an art gallery museum in the city centre of The Hague, relevant to visiting families with children. Thereby the focus was on how to engage the families as soon as they enter the permanent exhibition of the museum and make the museum more relevant to them...

An evaluation method for exhibitions of the Maritime museum Rotterdam

This project report describes the process of the development of an evaluation process for family exhibitions in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. It is focusing on collecting qualitative feedback from families, consisting out of children between 8 and 12 years old and their parent or grandparents. The Maritime Museum Rotterdam has various...

Engaging millennials around the collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum: The design of a social and interactive experience

This thesis describes a research and design in how to engage millennials around the collection of the Fotomuseum. For the Fotomuseum to shift from a traditional institution to an open and social environment, the public should be involved. Involving the public is necessary to create a high-quality visitor experience. Extensive literature and...

Media treasure box: A media literacy workshop for primary school pupils

In the current medialized world, it has become of great importance for citizens to know how to deal with the media accordingly. Understanding and having a critical attitude towards the media content that we “consume” and being able to work with media devices and platforms has become as important as learning to read and write. Sound and Vision,...

Van Gogh, The other story, A culturally diverse Van Gogh Museum: A framework for a culturally diverse Van Gogh Museum

The aim of this graduation project is to research the current way youngsters, with a diverse migration background (age 18-30 and living in Amsterdam) experience the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (VGM) and to design an intervention that provides them with a relevant and enriching Van Gogh experience to thereby increase its inclusiveness. Over the...

Increasing nurse job satisfaction: Shaping future experiences in a post-merger neonatal intensive care department by using the Design Thinking methodology

In 2018, both of Amsterdam’s academic hospitals(VUmc &amp; AMC) officially merged into the Amsterdam UMC. As part of thismerger two neonatal Intensive care units (NICU) are merging as well. Thisproject aims to increase the job satisfaction of NICU nurses in thispost-merger department. <b>TheNICU nurse</b><br/> A neonatal...

The future of cash: Designing for the continued support of cash

An analysis of the declining use of cash within the Netherlands and the eurozone. Recommendations and a redesign are created to tackle the challenges of both a declining cash cycle and a society with limited cash use.

Making art accessible to visually impaired museum visitors

This is the reporting of the master graduation assignment of Hester de Bliek, Design for Interaction, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft. The main goal of the assignment was to make visual art accessible to people with a visual impairment. This assignment arose from the PhD research of W.S. Elkhuizen about 3D printing and Fine Art...