Sustainable Assessment Tools for Higher Education Institutions: Developing Two-Hierarchy Tools for China

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play an increasingly significant role in the practice of sustainability. For HEIs in their early stages of sustainability, they are still in need of sustainable assessment tools (SATs) that are suitable for their local context and also lead international sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is...

Know-me: A toolkit for designing personalised dementia care

Personalisation is a crucial element in providing person-centred care for people with de-mentia. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a design toolkit to facilitate the work of designers and healthcare professionals in personalising dementia care. This toolkit, named “Know-me”, was grounded in the findings of Ergonomics in...

Delta Center Design: San Francisco Bay: Resilience by Design. Designing for uncertain delta-landscape futures

The interventions around old industrial areas are based on a landscape design, which can also be regarded as an introduce of the nature. The green land protects the heritages and absorb rain water. On the green land are renovated factories, which in a different environment, are given new identities. Connecting those old buildings are wooden...

MSc3-4 Complex Project Havana Studio Alamar Group| The Design of Urban Farming Vocational School: Learning by Doing in Cuban Idyll

The thesis is a urban-research-based architectural design in Alamar, Havana, Cuba. Due to the special historical condition and cultural background of Cuba, the intervention into the urban context is generated from the analysis and anatomy of the specific community in Alamar. The design is a vocational school of urban farming, which is a sector...

An E-learning Platform for Career Development of International Talents in the Netherlands

HoiTalent is a young start-up to help international talents with their career development in the Netherlands. The company has its job portal hoitalent.com with thousands of openings for internationals and HoiCoaching to offer tailored and face-to-face career coaching service. Currently, the company is going to launch a new project as an e...