PREQUEL: A tangible storytelling tool for building a family culture

This report describes the development of the tool PREQUEL, a tangible storytelling tool to build a family culture. The tool is intended to support meaningful conversations between two parents. Through conversation and storytelling, the tool encourages them to explore the world of parenting and everything that comes with that. <br/><br/>Parenting...

Game-based learning of multi-cultural team competencies: The effects of playing BAFÁ BAFÁ on attitudes and skills of future engineers

Learning multi-cultural team competencies is important for engineering students to prepare for an increasingly global workspace. We evaluated the game BAFÁ BAFÁ with groups of Master students from varying engineering programmes using a mixed methods approach. The game experience of 118 participants was measured. These participants experienced...

Cultura: Achieving intercultural empathy through contextual user research in design

In today’s globalizing world an increasing number of companies design products and services for overseas markets and users. Designers face the challenge of creating solutions that fulfil users’ needs, and this becomes more important as the cultural distance between them continues to grow. Unsuccessful international endeavours which resulted in...

Culture and value trade-offs for successful entrepreneurship in Africa

In Africa slowly but steadily a transformation is taking place in the management styles of enterprises. There is a trend towards more precise time management, more precision in dealing with increasingly sophisticated technology, more feedback from the bottom to the top in order to manage the processes properly, more professionalism and...

Another Shenzhen: Towards an Urban Regeneration Model for Intercultural Integration

Shenzhen has long been seen as the ‘World Factory’ and a ‘Cultural Desert’. However in the era of knowledge based development, it is urgent to explore new strategies on urban regeneration in the perspective of intercultural integration. The migration of multiple sub ethic groups in the history as well as the migrant workers from nationwide since...

Inter-Cultural Brand Design for French Wine in China Market

This project came into being in response to the growing appetite in China for grape wines. Alterego has an expertise business in food & drink, culture and marketing, and it is also eyeing the emerging Chinese market, therefore the mutual understanding between the Chinese and the grape wine needs to be addressed, and this will be accomplished in...

One Thousand Flowers in Delft: A Bottom-up approach to improve teaching international students

Delft University of Technology (DUT) is becoming more and more an international community. Since lectures on master level are all conducted in English, the numbers of students from foreign countries attending DUT are rising and international cooperation within educational projects is a necessity. To prepare educators for the continuing...

Project screening as a basis for succes: Towards an efficient screening policy of potential projects for PSI-tendering application