Embedding Design Practices in a Non-profit Foundation for the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

This thesis presents experiments to integrate design practices for organisational change in a non-profit organisation in Brazil that contributes to the sustainable development of the Amazon rainforest region.<br/>The organisation that hosted this project is the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability (FAS). It is a civil society organisation that...

Adopting a systemic design perspective within a design thinking practice

This graduation project was a collaboration between TU Delft and VanBerlo, a strategic and product design agency based in the Netherlands. The motivation of this project was to understand how the Design for Transitions team, a part of VanBerlo, can start to apply Systemic design within their design practice. This team addresses societal and...

EDN Framework: An Embedding Design Network: Overcoming the barriers of embedding design principles in businesses through the support of an inter-organizational network

As acquiring design thinking by organizations become a lighthouse for long-term competitive advantage for some, its adoption becomes more important. Companies on this journey face different types of resistance and challenges laid out in this thesis. As networks offer a different context and opportunities for learning, this thesis tries to answer...

Capturing the value of design thinking in different innovation practices

Design thinking has become a popular notion in the field of innovation. What is design thinking really and—even more important—what could be its value in applying it in innovation practices? This paper presents four studies that together capture the value of design thinking in different early-stage innovation practices. Study 1 comprised a...