The Brains4Buildings project aims to develop methods to design new smart building climate management systems that, among other things, reduce energy consumption, increase comfort and respond flexibly to user behavior. We set out to develop design guidelines to help B4B stakeholders when designing innovative …

Samenwerkingsweek tussen de Innovatiewerkplaats Klimaatadaptatie en de minor Future Planet Innovations op de RUG over het thema klimaatadaptatie. Bestaat uit onder andere uit een gastlezing over klimaatadaptatie in Groningen, een bezoek aan de klimaatproeftuin BuildinG en een praktijkopdracht in het …

In 2024 the Low Impact Development Devices (LID) open-source international database ClimateScan consist of over 14.000 climate adaption related projects uploaded in the period of 2014–2024. For cities with over 500 projects, this offers an opportunity to construct a LID-DNA of the city. LID-DNA presents …

Dealing with and maintaining high-quality standards in the design and construction phases is challenging, especially for on-site construction. Issues like improper implementation of building components and poor communication can widen the gap between design specifications and actual conditions. To prevent …

Efforts to create age-friendly cities progressively intersect with goals for environmental sustainability. The older people’s beliefs, behaviours and financial aspects regarding environmental sustainability in their lives are an understudied topic and not well understood. Therefore, a representative …

This presentation is part of the Phd, i try to study the power of river futures. I do this by building relationships with two rivers, de Maas/The Meuse/La Mosa/de Grensmaas in the Netherlands and the Magdalena/Karakali/Karihuana, Arli, Guaca-hayo/Yuma. I do this by establishing explicitly the fact that …

This paper introduces and contextualises Climate Futures, an experiment in which AI was repurposed as a ‘co-author’ of climate stories and a co-designer of climate-related images that facilitate reflections on present and future(s) of living with climate change. It converses with histories of writing …

Klimaatadaptatie bevindt zich in een fase van implementatie en versnelling, wat terug te zien is in de snelle verspreiding van maatregelen voor stedelijk water- en hittebeheer in steden over de hele wereld. Met name op natuur gebaseerde oplossingen ('nature-based solutions' of NBS) zijn recentelijk in …

Densely populated areas are major sources of air, soil and water pollution. Agriculture, manufacturing, consumer households and road traffic all have their share. This is particularly true for the country featured in this paper: the Netherlands. Continuous pollution of the air and soil manifests itself …

Monitoring the Combined Effects of Induced Earthquakes and Climate Change on a Heritage Building in Groningen