Recent debates in rural development suggest a growing interest in integrating landscape-based knowledge into participatory decision-making. This study contributes to this discussion by examining how landscape—understood as the interplay between human actions, natural processes, and soil systems—can be …

Introduction: Depression is a common mental disorder with often persistent consequences. Even after adequate treatment, recovery may be far from optimal. To enhance outcomes, we aimed to identify and synthesize factors that depressed adults themselves perceived as facilitating or hindering recovery. …

How do we learn and teach amid complex societal change? ESCuela: ESC & Education shares lessons from more than a decade of Systemic Co-Design (SCD) practice in classrooms, communities, and international collaborations. Blending reflection and practice shows how learning transforms when teachers become …

In smart cities, deliberation between public professionals and discontented citizens risks devolving into a ‘dialogue of the deaf’, where parties talk past each other due to differing perceptions of what constitutes good deliberation. Meta-deliberation offers a promising direction to raise awareness …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful tool for simulating building users’ dynamic behavior in demand response (DR) programs. However, ABM faces several challenges, particularly in encoding building users’ natural language features and common sense into rules or mathematical equations. To overcome …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful tool for simulating building users’ dynamic behavior in demand response (DR) programs. However, ABM faces several challenges, particularly in encoding building users’ natural language features and common sense into rules or mathematical equations. To overcome …

Educational practices are complex and value-laden, shaped through the interplay of societal expectations, pedagogical commitments, organisational arrangements, and everyday interactions between teachers, pupils, and colleagues. Teachers do not act as neutral implementers of external prescriptions; rather, …

Facility management (FM) is pivotal in creating spaces and services that foster equitable and cohesive societies. A role that becomes even more critical as one in four adults in the European Union is disabled, with 52% experiencing discrimination (Eurostat, 2025). Despite the EU’s 2007 ratification of …

This study examines how Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) can enable co-creation of long-term visions in contested multi-stakeholder contexts. Using Feijenoord, a diverse Rotterdam neighborhood, as a case, we prototyped a three-step PSP approach, (I) Vision Building, (II) Stress Test, and (III) Placemaking …

Aim This study aims to identify key determinants and strategies for effectively implementing a reflection method to support adequate use of the ‘Informal Care’ guideline within community nursing. The SPARK (Self & Peer Assessment to Reflect on Quality Standards) reflection study, is a structured group …