Sustainable behavior change towards short-haul flights for business trips: Applying the Fogg Behavior Model to determine how to change the mindset towards flying for business with the aim to reduce the impact of flying

Companies let their employees take short-haul flights for business trips while there are alternative, more sustainable, modes of transport. Understanding the motivation of the company and their employees for flying is essential to create a design solution which could change their behavior. To reach the goal of a maximum global temperature rise...

Individual and contextual barriers to solar self-consumption: A qualitative and quantitative assessment of laundry loadshifting behavior in Dutch households

To use solar energy efficiently, reduce emissions and net congestion problems, prosumer households should substitute grid-consumed energy with self-consumption. Loadshifting is a low-cost measure to increase self-consumption, shifting energy-intensive behaviors (such as running the laundry machine) to periods of time when energy is produced....

Green Parenting in 2030: exploration of systemic & sustainable innovation with Philips

Context within Philips: <br/>This thesis is part of a new project track within Philips with the goal of developing a roadmap of tangible and practical sustainable solutions, integrated in the Philips portfolio and inspired by a long-term vision. The case study of this project track and therefore thesis is the MCC business (Mother and Child Care)...

PROMOTIVATE: Design for social dynamics to promote sustainable behavior in secondary schools

ENERGE is a research project working on managing energy consumption at the school level for sustainability. It is looking for solutions that extend data interactions to the field of behavioral change while taking both energy use and people’s comfort into account. <br/>This graduation project explores how to communicate information related to...

A Recipe for Sustainable Living: An Architectural Recipe for Nudging Towards Pro-Environmental Behavior in Housing

The rapid change in climate change and negative impact on the natural environment is attributable to human behavior. The current demands on nature are compromising the well-being of humanity’s future and putting the existence of mankind at risk. The current unsustainable way of living can be changed into a more desired, sustainable lifestyle by...

Food Waste Prevention: a design intervention for Households

Globally one-third of all food that is producedfor human consumption is wasted (FAO, 2013). Although it happens across theentire Food Supply Chain, 53% of all food waste in Europe takes place withinconsumers’ households (Stenmarck et al., 2016). All this waste has seriousconsequences for the environment and if we want to...

Jacquerie Mimesis: The transformation of life during the Anthropocene concerning the build environment

This thesis is made during my graduation project within the studio Explore Lab at the Technical University of Delft on the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences. Since the writing of my first master thesis, the fascination for the topic arose. At the Architectural Theory department under guidance of Andrej Radman I wrote; ...

Big Data Visualization and Context Management

This thesis explores different perspectives on the added value of data and data visualizations in context management practices and argues that organizations can have a valuable role in the space between bottom-up and top-down approaches, as individuals’ lack of control over a context becomes an opportunity for encouragement of a sense of...