How can a smart ‘upcycle wood factory’ (powered by industry 4.0 technologies and principles) help create meaningful and viable applications out of residual wood applicable to the hospitality sector? This video gives the answers.

Urbanisation and climate change intensify urban heat stress, threatening public health, urban liveability, and equity (IPCC, 2022; Ebi et al., 2021; Böcker & Thorsson, 2014). Vulnerable populations—such as those with limited mobility, low incomes, or health conditions increasing heat stress susceptibility—bear …

Demonstration project with the Robot Lab wall panel, made from residual wood It is the true eye-catcher of the restaurant at Bowling Leeuwarden: the wall with the wooden panels. The panels were designed at the Robot Lab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and are entirely made from …

In today’s retail landscape, in-store technology is rapidly transforming how consumers interact with physical stores (Grewal et al., 2023). One such innovation is the interactive kiosk, which is an in-store, digital, self-service system employing hardware such as a computer, tablet or larger touchbased …

As designers, we often use annotations to add information and reflection to our work. We would like to suggest that these annotations let personal design languages emerge. We experiment with the materiality of the pictorial format itself to show how such languages emerge from a particular body of work, …

Factsheet waarin de resultaten zijn gevisualiseerd van het tweejarige praktijkgerichte onderzoek 'samen zien, samen doen, jongerenwerkers aan zet tegen armoede en schulden' , uitgevoerd door de lectoraten Youth Spot en Armoede Interventies van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in samenwerking met 15 jongerenwerkorganisaties. …

Manifest dat voortkomt uit de resultaten van het tweejarige praktijkgerichte onderzoek 'Jongerenwerkers aan zet tegen armoede en schulden', uitgevoerd door de lectoraten Youth Spot en Armoede Interventies van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in samenwerking met 15 jongerenwerkorganisaties. Het onderzoek is …

Book Review of S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263 p.

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …