R.A. Price
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Design education plays a crucial role in preparing students for professional practice, equipping them with the right tools to navigate the broadening field and practices of design. However, design education falls short when it comes to supporting design students in their personal
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Amplifying the propositional learning using LLMs
Design process augmentation
Current literature that aims to describe the use of (Gen)AI in the domain of design is hindered by the lack of conceptual integration of design theories which in turn blurs the connection between the design process and human-AI interaction and collaboration frameworks. This thesi
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A place to care
A design exploration of community care
This graduation project investigates the relationship between care and community and reflects on the possible impact of these learnings on design practice. Care is a complex dimension of life, which entails the act of providing everything that is necessary for the maintenance and
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Nature connectedness through living artefacts
A case study for Urban Reef
Cities have witnessed the disappearance of natural habitats, putting biodiversity at risk and leaving citizens with a diminished connection to nature. Establishing a strong human-nature connection is crucial for sustainable transformations in society, influencing sustainable norm
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Meeting Akila
Creating Local Empowerment Through Organisational Transformation
This master's thesis collaborates with the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC) and their Water and Innovation team. The aim of the team is to foster greater engagement with local communities and establish a power balance that empowers the partnering country, rather than being centralize
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Beyond conscious and premium
A strategy to unite sustainability communication of low-cost brands and retailers in the denim industry
The production of denim harms the environment, and given the industry’s size, the negative impact is significant. Therefore, denim must be produced more sustainably. In order to bring about change in the industry, an increase in demand for eco-friendly jeans is necessary to incen
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The Future of the Urban Forest
Exploring the systemic granularity of the urban green domain to navigate towards a new paradigm
With nearly 70% of people living in cities by 2050 (United Nations, 2018), our urban environments are being put to the test, with more severe and frequent heat waves, droughts, floods, ongoing biodiversity loss, air pollution, and land subsidence. To sustain and increase the live
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Fostering Red Cross youth innovation
A Human Centred Design curriculum with an emphasis on problem framing
The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, ‘The Movement’, is the world’s largest humanitarian network. More than 50% of the 14 million active volunteers are youth volunteers. These youth volunteers play vital roles in humanitarian action and development around the world
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This thesis aims to find a new collection method for post-consumer denim garments that fits the future context and the needs of ecosystem stakeholders. The thesis is aimed at all who want to work on a circular fashion industry from a business- or ecosystem perspective. The design
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Inculcating a sense of stewardship and responsibility towards urban trees amongst citizens
Using i-tree technology as a means to facilitate active participation of local communities in urban forestry
Cities are in an urgent need to adapt to the impacts of climate change, particularly, high temperatures and heat stress. Urban Forests are the most effective means of climate adaptation. However, the multiple benefits of urban trees are highly undervalued in the urban contexts. T
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Don't let the box out!
A holistic approach to capturing material with recycling potential in the e-commerce sector
The explosion in e-commerce has been undeniable. Our current global situation has urged the different industries to adapt the way they provide their services & products, creating a higher demand for home delivery.
With 66% of Europeans claiming to have shopped online more si
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Public organisations are shifting their focus towards the implementation of sustainability into their projects through sustainable public procurement, but recent studies indicated that the implementation is still lacking. Sustainable public procurement is only implemented in arou
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Data science in design innovation
The integration of data science in design innovation at digital consulting firms
For organisations, the capability to exploit data for innovation efforts has already become imperative to their survival in an ever more competitive market. However, many organisations are currently still struggling with how, where and when to use data science for innovative purp
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Ecosystems in transition
Designing collaborative ecosystems to accelerate transitions
In the current moment in time, there are large societal transitions happening, such as the transition to sustainable energy or the transition towards a circular economy. Design-led transitions are societal transitions towards more sustainable futures, led by designers (Irwin, 2
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Families versus Machines
On how a startup can improve digital well-being in the family life
The goal of this project was to find a way to improve digital well-being in family life through design for the startup Unpluq. In this thesis, the designer combined a design approach called Value Sensitive Design with the list of requirements methodology taught at Industrial Desi
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The Strategy of Life
How The School of Life Amsterdam can make self-development a norm in society
This graduation project aims to change the way people look towards self-development, and make self-development a norm in society so that people will be leading more meaningful and fulfilling lives. The School of Life Amsterdam is an organisation that aligned with this personal vi
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Supporting consumers to make sustainable food choices
Changing the consumption behaviour of consumers from a system perspective
The daily consumption of food influences the health of society and the planet. The current food consumption of an average Dutch consumer could be described as unsustainable behaviour (Muilwijk et al., 2019). Especially the intake of animal proteins should decrease and be replaced
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Designing a more inclusive museum experience
A strategic service concept to contribute to inclusion in the museum sector, by facilitating a mutually beneficial relationship between museums and their audiences
This project is about inclusion in the museum sector. Concerns around inclusion and equality are rapidly increasing. And, due to these societal dynamics, museums are in times of fundamental change towards inclusivity.
At the start of the project, a theoretic framework de ...
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Plotwise is a tech scale-up that offers continuous planning for last mile delivery. By providing data-driven AI planning software as a service, the company strives to improve the delivery planning process of its customers and thereby allowing them to handle the growth in demand f
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Overcoming the Valley of Death in a Service Organisation
Designing Innovation Implementation
Large and mature organisations, with their access to knowledge, capital and customers, are perfectly positioned to walk the road from invention to innovation; to turn promising breakthrough technologies and creative concepts into profitable and scalable business opportunities. Ho
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