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N. Tromp

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Let's get flexible

Exploring adaptable consumption toward reducing household food waste in the Netherlands

Food waste remains a critical global challenge, undermining sustainability and straining food systems. This study investigates adaptable consumption as a transformative strategy for reducing household food waste, emphasising its role in enhancing resilience within food systems. A ...

Problem-sustaining patterns

Redesigning the concept of mental disorder

We propose the concept of a problem-sustaining pattern as a revision of the established concept of mental disorder. The proposed concept preserves valuable features of the established concept, such as recognition of the client’s hardships and scientifically informed justification ...
Reframing is key to mitigating the risks of implicit and inaccurate assumptions when dealing with complex, open-ended problems. While behavioural designers regularly face such problems, reframing is overlooked in current behavioural design guidance. Therefore, there is a need to ...

Framing Across System Scales and Timeframes

Supporting designers in reasoning toward transition design interventions

In recent years, designers have been increasingly active in dealing with societal transitions, using design and social innovation to drive systemic change. Transitions are long-term processes of systems change toward more desirable alternatives. In transition design, designers co ...
In recent years, designers have increasingly engaged with sustainability transitions, using design and innovation activity to drive systemic change. However, we still have a limited understanding of how designers can best frame complex system dynamics to understand which innovati ...
One of the emergent approaches towards designing (for) transitions and transformations is the application of systemic design: the integration of systems theories and practice with design theories and practices. Within this field we identified two dominant perspectives and associa ...

What do designers bring to the table?

Identifying key design competencies when designing for societal challenges in the public sector

There is an increasing interest in the public sector for the repertoire of designers and the value it can bring when working on complex societal challenges. However, what constitutes this repertoire is often not articulated clearly, or it is explained in such generic terms that i ...

Design capability when visioning for transitions

A case study of a new food system

In recent years, more designers have been engaging in transitions, for which design expertise is used to develop visions of long-term desirable futures. However, little is known about how design expertise is positioned in transition visioning processes. In this case study, we fol ...
Background: Temstem is a smartphone app developed with and for clinical voice hearing individuals with the aim to reduce their voice hearing distress and improve social functioning. Methods: A randomized controlled trial with adult outpatients suffering from distressing and frequ ...

Framing for the protein transition

Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design

Excessive animal protein consumption has led to calls for a plant-based protein transition. Plant-based diets can be fostered by design interventions, yet their effect on dietary choices depends on the framing that is chosen. The aim of this study was to understand which transiti ...

Bouwen aan synergetische samenwerkingen

Een onderzoek naar werken over grenzen in complexe veiligheidsvraagstukken

In de Nederlandse veiligheidssector spelen grote, complexe vraagstukken zoals ondermijning, georganiseerde criminaliteit, cybercriminaliteit en toenemende (online) radicalisering en polarisatie. Dit type vraagstukken vereisen nieuwe manieren
van kijken, denken en handelen om ...

Designing adaptable consumption

A new practice to foster food system transitions.

In recent years, more designers have been engaging in transitions for which design activity is used to develop innovations that steer change. However, little is known about how designers develop innovations to foster change along a desired transition path. In this short paper, we ...
Wie bel je als het maar niet lukt om verandering teweeg te brengen op een lastig vraagstuk? Weinig mensen zullen bij deze vraag spontaan “deze ontwerper” of “die kunstenaar!” uitroepen. Op het eerste gezicht lijken ontwerpers, kunstenaars en andere makers namelijk geen logische s ...

Een wankel evenwicht

Gedrag van personen met een arbeidsongeschikheidsuitkering

Al jaren zijn mensen met een arbeidsongeschiktheidsuitkering in mindere mate aan het werk dan de rest van de beroepsbevolking. Dit verschil is groter dan op grond van hun beperkingen verwacht mag worden. Een groot deel van de ZW-, WGA- en Wajonggerechtigden kan immers nog wel (ge ...

Five components of social design

A unified framework to support research and practice

Although the term social design is being widely adopted around the world, conceptual clarity is still lacking. The way social design is understood and executed can vary greatly. Without a shared conceptual foundation, knowledge exchange and development are restricted, and so is t ...

Designing appropriate things

An experiential perspective on the effectiveness of artefacts in contributing to behaviour change

Behavioural design is an emergent discipline that aims to harness design’s influence on behaviour in an intentional way. However, there is limited knowledge on how to translate knowledge on behaviour and its determinants to specific design properties in ways that can maintain suc ...

Designing for value-behaviour consistency

Ethical choice architecture to stimulate sustainable meat purchase

Many of our daily behaviours, e.g., our choice for transportation and our consumption behaviours, need to change in the light of the pressing sustainability issues we are facing. Yet, while many people value the environment, they do not always engage in the behaviours that are in ...
How will we consume food in the future? How will our food system meet the rising food demand while mitigating the negative consequences of food production and consumption? These questions drove the Food Waste: From Excess to Enough (FETE) research team to envision a new food syst ...

Momentary effects of Temstem, an app for voice-hearing individuals

Results from naturalistic data from 1048 users

Background: Temstem is a mobile application developed in cooperation with voice-hearing persons to help them cope with distressing voices. After psychoeducation about voice hearing, Temstem offers two functions: Silencing is a mode designed to inhibit voice activity through the p ...