QUOTE “This thesis is going to discuss the historical, cultural and economic conditions that currently Chinese independent designers have to take into account, both when venturing in the Chinese as well as in the international markets – more specifically, those in the West.” ISSUE Due to several disruptions …

QUOTE “Het is in de laatste jaren steeds populairder geworden om als modebedrijf een recycling initiatief op te zetten. Voor het slagen het initiatief is de medewerking van de consument essentieel. Dit onderzoek gaat over het gebruik van message framing om de motivatie en bereidheid van de consument …

QUOTE “Human-induced climate change will challenge the availability of textile fibres, whereas today’s apparel industry leaves behind a substantial environmental footprint. Sustainable hemp textiles can lighten it.” RESEARCH QUESTION What are the impacts, challenges and opportunities of climate change …

This chapter examines how the Berlin neighborhood of eastern Kreuzberg attained its mythical image as a youth culture neighborhood. It combines theories of myth-making and canonization with the concept of preference construction, thereby developing new tools to assess how certain ideas and images (e.g. …

I was somewhat surprized with the fog in Groningen upon my arrival. This is not the fog that covers the beautiful landscapes of the northern Netherlands in the evening and in the early morning. No… It is the fog that obscures the real aspects of the earthquake problem in the region and is crystallised …

Streekbox is an organisation in delivering fresh food meal kits, which is still a developing organisation. The brand value of Streekbox is: “we connect people with local and healthy products”. Within the organisation, there was no focus on the Customer Journey. The organisation wants to map its Customer …

Writing expressive dialogues can be used to assist individuals in developing their career identities – that is: stories that are needed to help people position themselves in relation to the current labour market. Writing expressive dialogues entails having written conversations with various parts of …

De huidige samenleving mist een stukje betovering. Sprookjes, mythen, legenden, alles wordt gerationaliseerd. Overdreven gezegd wordt deze maatschappij gekenmerkt door individualisering en oppervlakkigheid. We kunnen naar mijn mening dus wel wat meer verbondenheid en verdieping gebruiken. In het christendom …

Van de totale afvalproductie in Nederland is 24 miljoen ton afval afkomstig uit de bouwsector, dit is zo’n 40% van de totale afvalproductie. Dat staat gelijk aan ongeveer 2400 keer het gewicht van de Eiffeltoren. Een bekende quote van Loesje luidt: “Waarom afval produceren als het toch wordt weggegooid?”. …

Lean Production (LP) can be regarded as a design approach in search of a theoretical foundation. In this paper we show that Lowlands’ Sociotechnical Design Theory (STSL) could function as such a foundation. To reach this goal, we first describe STSL as a system theoretical reformulation of Original Sociotechnical …