Experimental learning and innovation environments, such as living labs, field labs, and urban innovation labs, are increasingly used to connect multi-stakeholders in envisioning, creating, experimenting, learning, and trying out novel responses to diverse societal challenges. With designers facilitating …

Network Applied Design Research (NADR) made an inventory of the current state of Circular Design Research in the Netherlands. In this publication, readers will find a summary of six promising ‘gateways to circularity’ that may serve as entry points for future research initiatives. These six gateways …

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 …

Design and research are two fields of knowledge that each has its traditions, methods, standards and practices. These two worlds appear to be quite separate, with researchers investigating what exists, and designers visualising what could be. This book builds a bridge between both worlds by showing how …

Research into the relationship between innovative physical learning environments (PLEs) and innovative psychosocial learning environments (PSLEs) indicates that it must be understood as a network of relationships between multiple psychosocial and physical aspects. Actors shape this network by attaching …

Design and research are two fields of knowledge that each has its traditions, methods, standards and practices. These two worlds appear to be quite separate, with researchers investigating what exists, and designers visualising what could be. This book builds a bridge between both worlds by showing how …

‘We zijn niet asociaal, maar cybersociaal.’ Dit is een kreet geuit door een student die zich verweert tegen een veelal gemaakt verwijt over het asociale gedrag in digitale ruimtes en de vereenzaming van mensen door het inwisselen van fysieke interactie voor digitaal contact. Wat betekent cybersociaal, …

Applied design research staat voor een nieuwe uitdaging: het ballet der disciplines. Dit artikel bereidt de discipline in drie stappen voor op deze uitdaging. Allereerst door eerst de elementen van applied design research te ontleden, door vervolgens aan de hand van vier voorbeelden te laten zien hoe …

Het doel van mijn recent gestarte lectoraat Civic Prototyping is om nieuwe tools en methoden te ontwikkelen om inwoners in de stad in staat te stellen om zelf nieuwe toepassingen van technologieën exploratief te onderzoeken en te ontwikkelen. Daarmee kunnen zij op eigen initiatief waardevolle diensten, …