Exploring cross-cultural design through a concept on value exchange: How redefining public space can create socio-economic space

This graduation project takes place in Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with Design without Borders Africa (Dwb).<br/><br/>The aim of the project is threefold:<br/>Create social impact in the domain of value exchange in the public space of Kampala,<br/>Apply the Vision in Product design (ViP) method for the first time in the designer’s career...

A future vision and concept for NS train stations

This report presents the process of defining a future vision and concept for NS train stations in 2030. This graduation project, in partnership with NS, seeks to explore the future context of NS train stations, taking into account various factors, including societal themes. The ViP method (Hekkert and Van Dijk, 2011) guided the process of...

Finding vision in a melting landscape: Sustainable outerwear in 2040

New studies state that climate change is projected to harm snow reliability in ski resorts, resulting in shorter ski seasons, increased snowmaking demand and low-lying ski areas may cease to exist. Open Wear is a sustainable outerwear brand that uses sustainable materials and ethical production to produce clothing from 100% recycled plastic. The...

Design for Youth's Flourishing: Intervention design strategies to enhance teenagers’ mental resilience and well-being

The urge to promote mental health and well-being is gaining increasing importance and attention in recent years. Adolescents, who are among the most vulnerable under this aspect, are experiencing an increase in mental health complaints and need of youth care in the Netherlands. In addition, they perceive current means of care as inappropriate to...

Migration, Social Polarization & Socio-Political Stagnation: How to Shape Meaningful Relationships Between Refugees and Europe in 2030.

By the end of 2019, 79.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide and 26 million were refugees. Over the last years migration has become an urgent political issue in Europe and more people are moving and crossing country borders due to wars, poverty and political instability. Migration is currently one of the main driving forces in...

2030: A Future Vision and Concept for Vanmoof

The foundation of this graduation project lies in the future mobility sector, and will be performed in collaboration with Vanmoof Bicycles. Within this thesis the future context of mobility will be considered with respect to the changing societal landscape. The project will be concluded with a concept and prototype for Vanmoof. This physical...

Future mobihubs as social connector for the neighbourhood: About positive friction, quantum mechanics, and your mother.

This project revolves around redesigning the future mobihub for the context of the Netherlands. A mobihub (or mobipunt in Dutch) is a brand of mobility hub. In this report, a mobility hub is defined as “A recognizable, physical place where different context-driven functions and services (mostly shared mobility-related such as shared cars) that...

Social Mobility Europe 2030: Presenting a framework to help upgrade the future of social mobility in Europe 2030

Mobility is becoming a crucial factor to define contemporary social life. It
 has changed the relationship between government and economy, public and private, work and life, shaping a world that promotes unconstrained movements of people, products, consumption and working subjects. The fundamental redefinition of established social, political...

When the journey becomes the destination: Proposing a mindset-based vision to rethink and create multi-modal mobility solutions

The mobility industry is facing a disruptive transformation. A large number of social, economic and technological trends are shaping the way we will move in the future. In this fast-changing environment, mytaxi becomes FREE NOW due to the joint venture in 2019 between its mother company Daimler together with BMW. While joining forces to become a...

The future cool chain: Business model design for the smart cool lane of the Air floriculture supply chain

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Designing a new lighting product for Fatboy: Fatboy O-deer: a new way to make atmospheric lighting flexible and tactile

The aim of this project was to design a new lighting product for the company Fatboy. In Figure 1 an abstract overview is shown of the project process, consisting of three main phases. <br/><br/>Fatboy is a Dutch design brand that provides accent furniture products which bring more (fun) to living. The company is especially known for its...

A future vision of Eindhoven Airbase: Giving growth a strategic direction towards 2050

This Master thesis is about a future vision of Eindhoven Airbase, where growth is given a strategic direction towards 2050. As a result, a strategic innovation roadmap and the detailed implementation of this is evaluated. Eindhoven Airbase is part of a complex decision-making system, where multiple stakeholders are involved. The research in this...

Last mile connectivity for Urban India 2020

This report is a compilation of the 6 months of Graduation project executed in India. It is based on the Vision in Product Design (ViP)-design methodology. At the end of this project, a proposal was made to the client for Urban India 2020. From the initial design brief, a suitable planning was put in place by combining research methodologies...

Down the rabbit hole: A starter kit for collaborative creation

Starting point of this project was human interaction in relation to technology and the project goal to design a relevant product that contributes to people’s lives. Explorative user research was used to set the domain for the project on collaborative creation. Next, a vision on the domain was developed, using the ViP-method. The vision proposes...

A Mobile Communication Concept to Enhance Perceived Proximity

This thesis project is completed as part of the Product Planning and User Experience team at Vodafone Netherlands. The main objective is to create a new mobile communication concept based on the vision to make people feel closer to each other. This report proposes a context-aware communication called Airmail that enables people to send messages...

Youth meeting point of the future

Introduction You only have to read the paper or watch the evening news to understand the problems local hang-out youth is causing recently. Last year, Mayor Mr. Cohen called youth-molestation one of the biggest problems of the city of Amsterdam. Humiliation of the youth, safety cameras, the Mosquito1 and gathering restriction orders; in recent...