AstroMission: A game that facilitates the emotional connection between children with cancer and their parents

In Turkey, roughly 3000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every year (Kebudi, 2012). Although there are different types of pediatric cancers, their trajectory is similar and filled with various physical and psychosocial challenges for the patients and their families. Moreover, cancer usually causes a drastic life change for the...

When the partnership becomes the journey: Helping sales managers to become more customer-centric through a relational approach

The value of customer relationships appears to be a hot topic at the moment as companies need to move from competition to collaboration, or how I will largely refer to: from transactional to relational. However, the value which current customer relationships generate is far from the claimed collaboration. For many years, transactional...

Reframing loneliness: an intervention proposal for a holistic and preventative approach to loneliness in the high school context

This thesis set out to research the problem of loneliness among adolescents in the high school context. For a long time, loneliness had mainly been recognized as a problem among elderly. Only in the last few years, people have been starting to realize that this is a concerning problem among adolescents too. In order to get a better grip on what...

Reframing Financial Well-being for Adolescents: From Economic Flourishing to Human Flourishing

The goal of this project was to create a new and meaningful product, using Vision in Product design, and Positive Design methods, that could give the Dutch network of financial support organizations directions for improving the financial well-being of adolescents in 2025. The project was hosted by Wijzer in Geldzaken and Geldfit, who both...

Onboarding opportunities for digital transformation: A design that quickly generates and shapes initiatives, and creates insight into their potential value

The European Airline is a big company that focuses on efficiency, sustainability and customer experience. Its department DS strives to make the company smarter and more efficient. They create value by experimenting with technologies and methodologies, delivering products into people’s hands, and transforming the way of working. My project was...

Tackling Reframing: The Development and Evaluation of a Problem Reframing Canvas

The problems of today are increasingly complex in nature. Yet, most support provided by design agencies and innovation consultancies is based on unstructured approaches, guided by the facilitators own intuition. This article presents the Teckel canvas, an approach to guide problem reframing in facilitation to both tackle solution and problem...

Reframing deadlocked airport policy discourse: New perspectives on sustainable aviation in the Netherlands

Travelling without moving: Design vision and roadmap 2030

Triggering new perspectives: A reframing method on problem-solution exploration

This graduation project is about the reframing services that Flatland provide during their facilitation sessions. The consideration within this project is about the reframing activities, abilities and opportunities of the Flatland team. The team of Flatland is unconsciously skilled in reframing, because of their knowledge gained out of...

Reframing the academic Master of Arts Productdesign

Reframing the academic Master of Arts Productdesign Who are you as a designer? How do you design? How is your design built up? A vision on design research in education was developed to bring a fresh perspective on the academic character of the Productdesign. The character was reframed using the Vision in Product design approach in the domain of...

Reframing textiles into architectural systems: Construction of a membrane shell by patchwork

In this paper different qualities of architectural textile techniques and tectonics are explored. By using a reframing strategy micro techniques and tectonics as used in fashion and textile design are evolved into an architectural scale. To reveal the quality of this reframing procedure a case scenario has been executed. By reframing patchwork...