Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and interiors and other applications. Yet, 25% of the annually used wood turns into waste, which is mostly incinerated or - in much smaller proportions - turned into particle board. Attention for wood recycling …

On the Open Research Amsterdam website, the Digital Production Research Group presented its main projects and achievements. -- Dutch: Verbinding onderwijs, onderzoek en praktijk In 2017 is het Robot Lab van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) opgericht. Zij transformeren onder andere sloophout tot nieuwe …

Students of the Minor 'Robotic Production and Circular Materials' designed and created a modular outdoor structure suitable for the Green Mile Initiative. The structure fills in one parking lot, along the streetside of the Stadhouderskade. In 2022, this street is one of the most polluted and dangerous …

The Future of Design Education working group on sustainability developed recommendations for integrating sustainability into higher education design curricula. The recommendations provide a foundation for design instruc- tion, using well-established evidence-based tools, methods, and mindsets that apply …

The ‘dirt diary’ is a do-book that was used to interact with residents to gain a clear view on the true waste journey in households. The do-book is contains several assignments for residents around different types of waste, for example plastics, organic waste, paper and textile. Assignments include drawing …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam doet met het project BASSTA onderzoek naar het verbeteren van het scheidingsgedrag van huishoudens. Middels doe-boeken is onderzocht hoe mensen thuis met hun afval omgaan. Op basis van deze analyse worden gedragsinterventies ontworpen.

We examine how a multi-stakeholder collaboration (MSC) in the emergent issue field of circular textiles in The Netherlands gains legitimacy as field coordinator. Drawing on our preliminary findings from rich, qualitative data, we present a process model that highlights three objects of legitimacy – the …

The European Commission aims for a full circular economy (CE), an economy that aims to reuse all resources in 2050. CE is a promising way to increase welfare and wellbeing while decreasing environmental footprints. Industrial symbiosis, in which companies exchange residuals for resource efficiency, is …