How to navigate your way through an era that is increasingly referred to as an era of poly-crises, where disparate crises interact in such a way that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part (WEF, 2023)? Some of the social, environmental and security risks described in the 2023 World Economic …

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Een hogeschool waar participatie van studenten vanzelfsprekend is, dat is de droom die het project Students as Partners bij Inholland hoopt te verwezenlijken. In 2023 kreeg Rutger Kappe, lector Studiesucces bij Inholland, de Comeniusbeurs voor het project Students as Partners (SaP). Samen met de lectoraten …

Klanten positief over sociale robots: gebruiksgemak en plezier wegen zwaarder dan bezorgdheden" (Van de Sanden et al., 2025) presenteren Stephanie van de Sanden, Tibert Verhagen, Ewout Nas, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Filip Otten en Koen Hindriks de resultaten van een grootschalig praktijkonderzoek naar klantpercepties …

With growing environmental concerns, upcycling has become an important theme in literature and practice. Upcycling can help slow and close resource cycles through product life-extension. Cities offer opportunities for upcycling initiatives and seek to tackle challenges in urban solid waste management …

In the face of increasingly complex societal challenges, the field of social design is being called upon to deepen its ability to create long-term, systemic impact. This project, conducted with five experienced social designers and one workshop in our ESConference in 2025, explored how systems thinking, …

Social design is a growing practice field and expected to create impact on socio-technical systems and society at large. It positions designers to commit themselves to long-term visions and coordinate social change accordingly (Tromp & Vial, 2023). This requires designers to have a good understanding …

The visibility of sustainable energy measures is a channel of social influence, a means of conspicuous consumption, and affects the aesthetics of an environment. This study investigates how the visibility of sustainable household energy measures (i.e., installation of renewable energy and energy efficient …

Household food waste has a significant impact on the environment and to diminish this, understanding the effectiveness of different types of interventions, alone and in combination, is key. To better understand what makes waste-reduction interventions effective, we need to disentangle different intervention …

Urban areas, particularly those surrounding universities, can present promising opportunities for small food businesses due to the high concentration of students seeking convenient and affordable lunch options. In Augsburg, Germany, Feinkost Glück, a family-run delicatessen and catering company, has …