For designers, materials and production processes are crucial to the creation and quality of products like tablecloth and clay jars. Nowadays, utilitarian objects are mass- produced, far away. This contributes to environmental degradation, ecological imbalance and a loss of crafts and knowledge. To understand …

A short presentation in the FAIR-R week organized at Utrecht University on Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable, and Responsible Data

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, …

Digital services are becoming the default way to access public information, pursue an education, get healthcare, and engage in civic life. Yet for millions of people, these services remain frustrating to use or completely inaccessible. Legal frameworks such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and …

De NCG zet langzaam maar zeker stappen rond de vraag hoe gemetselde middeleeuwse gewelven van kerken versterkt moeten worden. O.a. voor de RCE aanleiding om na te denken over hoe panden goed gedocumenteerd kunnen worden waarbij (ingrijpender) maatregelen onontkoombaar zijn. Tijdens de deomstratie waar …

Floating Future Researchers Meeting

Teacher-student interaction is built out of numerous micro-interactions that shape learning and teaching processes. This presentation highlights the use of State Space Grids (SSGs) for visualizing and studying real-time classroom discourse in an intervention targeting professional development. State …