Urban planning and design offer opportunities to nudge people towards more active behavior. This is a popular topic among urbanists and health professionals, with several guidelines and best practices already developed. However, a gap exists between theory and practice and the complex realization process …

Novieten leren nieuwe probleem-oplostaken op een effectieve manier door het bestuderen van voorbeelden, zoals stap-voor-stap uitgeschreven oplossingsprocedures of een docent die (op video) voordoet en uitlegt hoe je een probleem oplost. Steeds vaker worden (video)voorbeelden en oefenproblemen ingezet …

Computational thinking (CT) has become a necessity in many professional domains. As such, scholars argue that the acquisition of CT and application should be embedded in existing school subjects. Within the CT literature, a tax-onomy distinguishes CT practices in STEM education into four categories: …

As the two prime examples of sport light, running and walking have become very popular sports activities in the past decades. There are references in the literature of similarities between both sports, however these parallels have never been studied. In addition, the current digitalisation of society …

Although ISO25000 claimed in 2011 that “the characteristics defined … are relevant to all software products and computer systems”, by now ISO is working on an specific SQuaRE version for AI systems. While waiting for that update I took (grey) literature on quality of AI systems as a starting point to …

The scope of this research justification outlines plastic reduction and circularity efforts by the Schwarz Gruppe and focuses on aligning these practices to stakeholders. In fact, the research explores strategic possibilities to enhance communication among political stakeholders, media representatives, …

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered governments and designers to revalue and redesign public spaces. This paper focuses on the various design responses to Covid-19 proposed and implemented in public spaces. In particular, we identify the kinds of challenges that such design responses address and the strategies …

My recently started Civic Prototyping research group aims to develop new tools and methods enabling urban residents to exploratively research and develop applications of new technologies. This allows them to improve their everyday lives by taking their own initiative in creating valuable services, products, …

For this book, we chose the term Applied Design Research. “We”are the Network Applied Design Research: a learning community of professors and researchers at various universities of applied sciences. Within this community, we share our experiences with the many forms of applied design research. We consciously …

Talking about the built environment can be a bit like discussing the national football team. Most people are interested in the subject, and almost everyone has an opinion about it. An opinion that we often substantiate with firm positions. And quite rightly so, says Perica Savanović. After all, we must, …