Navigating the Heat Transition: Effective Stakeholder Decision-Making in Dutch Low-Carbon Heating Projects

The Dutch government's 2050 initiative to transition all buildings from natural gas to sustainable heat systems underscores the critical role of stakeholder alignment in energy transition projects. Despite its importance, existing literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms required for effective stakeholder collaboration in heat...

Institutionalization of durable multi-stakeholder collaborations: An approach to stimulate durable collaboration in multi-stakeholder projects

The Dutch energy landscape is becoming more complex due to various interacting factors and uncertainties, creating what are known as "wicked problems" that demand collaborative solutions. This study addresses knowledge gaps by developing a collaborative guide for fostering effective Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations (MSCs) that can endure over...

Biodiversity Implementation in a Multi-Plot Context: Enhancing biodiversity in urban area development projects. A project developer’s perspective

Human activities are dismantling ecosystems and eliminating genes, species, and biotopes at an alarming rate. Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanisation and infrastructure is one of the main causes of the decline in urban biodiversity. Despite challenges, project developers can enhance biodiversity in urban areas by adopting nature-inclusive...

Collaboration during the energy transition in urban development: An exploratory research of the barriers and enablers for collaboration with an energy network operator in a cross-sector partnership in new urban area development projects

The importance of climate change is getting increasingly more attention from all stakeholders in urban development. This results in the energy network operator being increasingly involved in the partnerships needed to realize new urban area development projects. Current projects have been experiencing delays due to the electricity grid not being...

Visualization for Better Stakeholder Communication: Design of a visualization strategy tool and an empowering visual tool for multi-stakeholder projects

A Co-Design Tool for Medical Product Development

The client of this graduation project, Dune Innovation, aims to facilitate and execute a structured design process for medical device development. This is a complex task most notably during the early ‘discover’ phase, or fuzzy front end. In medical device development, the first stages of the design process are crucial in ensuring the adoption...

Stakeholders voor de ontwikkeling van geïntegreerde woningrenovatiediensten voor VvE’s: Verklaringen gezamenlijke ontwikkeling van bedrijfsmodellen - Nederland

De VvE-versnellingsagenda wil de verduurzaming van Verenigingen van Eigenaars (VvE’s) stimuleren door besluitvorming aan te passen, het renovatietraject te vereenvoudigen en financiële ondersteuning te bieden aan VvE’s. Het LIFE-project CondoReno omarmt deze visie en streeft bovendien naar meer renovaties en betere energieprestaties. CondoReno...

Design of Co-creation in Rotterdam Central Station (1996-2007): Architecture and urban design roles in the multi-stakeholder collaboration

This article explores the pivotal role of design as a decision-making tool within multi-stakeholder collaborations, focusing on the early phases of the Rotterdam Central Railway Station and its surroundings project. Spanning from 1996, when it gained National Key Project status, to 2007, when construction commenced, this period precedes the...

Fruitful friction as a strategy to scale social innovations: A conceptual framework to enable the emergence of common ground in multi-stakeholder social innovation projects

Social innovations are promising to tackle today's complex global challenges, especially when they scale, leading to a higher impact, which can generate asocietal transformation. The current work elaborates on scaling deep, a specific scaling strategy aiming to shift cultural values, mindsets and beliefs. However, applying this strategy in...

The Use of a Multilevel System Model for Analyzing Stakeholders at Different Levels in Health Care Systems

Participatory design or co-design is defined as the active engagement of all<br/>stakeholders in a design process. However, in many co-design projects, only end<br/>users are involved. Participants are often considered as the traditional<br/>representatives of a generalized stakeholder group, without prior analysis made<br/>on each individual’s...

Sustainable innovation. In search for the value added configuration

The concept of sustainable innovation goes beyond realizing technical solutions. For innovation to be effective, knowledge that is developed during the innovating activity requires to be dispersed to assure benefit of the innovation in production, use, maintenance and disposal. Actually doing so might jeopardize an organization’s competitive...

Sustainable innovation: In Search for the Value Added Configuration

The concept of sustainable innovation goes beyond realizing technical solutions. For innovation to be effective, knowledge that is developed during the innovating activity requires to be dispersed to assure benefit of the innovation in production, use, maintenance and disposal. Actually doing so might jeopardize an organization’s competitive...