How can the stewards of our planet be rewarded and become an existential part of a brand-experience? Is our “Consumer mindset” actually able to always take our planet Earth’s viability in consideration while we’re consuming or buying products? Erwin van Woudenberg is a professor at HAS University of …

A vital element of liberal democracy is the relationship between a government and its citizens, which is often characterised by the concept of political support or its reverse, political alienation. Ideally, this relationship should display political support since this indicates a high level of trust …

At the age of a failing economic system and undeniable evidence of the effects humankind has had over the planet, it is necessary to look for alternatives to the way we live locally. This article explores the use of designing narratives and metanarratives to co-create imaginaries serving as the needed …

On the outside, working online is mainly like working on-site. As a result, the switch was made quickly and relatively easily when on-site work was temporarily not an option. Initially, the biggest issues were technical in nature (bad connection). But technical issues are solvable, and the potential …

The Netherlands encounters an increasing amount of greenhouse gas emissions. One way to decrease those emissions is the improvement of sustainability. The subject area of the research is “sustainability in the agricultural sector in the Netherlands”, as well as using production planning as a solution …

This thesis was written for Kenniscentrum Nelles. This company is an expertise centre for local food. Kenniscentrum Nelles focusses on bundling knowledge and experiences about local food in the Achterhoek. The company gains knowledge and insight about local food in practice and applies this in new and …

This project leaves from the fundamental conviction that the transition towards more sustainable futures is not only a transition of businesses, technology or design – but fundamentally happens in our inner worlds, our values, mindsets and worldviews in relation to our connection with others and reported …

Our planet’s ecology and society are on a collision course, which manifests due to a contradiction in the assumptions of unlimited material growth fueling the linear economic paradigm. Our closed planetary ecosystem imposes confined amounts of space and a finite extent of resources upon its inhabitants. …

How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing identity on input data, in order to filter—that is, to discriminate—signals from …

This research was conducted to be able to advise THE ORGANISATION on how to strategise its communications to accomplish its goals of creating more awareness for the problems and the solutions in the ocean. The starting questions of THE ORGANISATION were as follows: • Whom should we target and how should …