Geleerde lessen en reflecties op vier cases uit het project Duurzame wijken rondom klimaatrechtvaardige interventies, doelgroeponderzoek in de duurzaamheidscontext en de rol van sleutelfiguren en ambassadeurs.

Overheden zetten publieke deliberatie in als reactie op onvrede onder burgers, om consensus, wederzijds begrip en verheldering te bewerkstelligen. Tegelijk wijzen sommige studies erop dat deliberatie kan ontaarden in een “dialoog van doven,” waarbij partijen langs elkaar heen praten, en deliberatie op …

We are pleased to present this Book of Proceedings following the international conference “Innovating Health & Daily Life through Living Labs”, co-organised by the Dutch Empathic Environment Living Labs (DEEL Academy) and the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). The two-day event took place in May …

As urban environments increasingly adopt automated technologies for municipal enforcement, this paper interrogates the erosion of human judgment, discretion, and interaction in public space governance. Drawing on participatory design workshops within the “Human Values for Smarter Cities” project, the …

Presentatie tijdens de International Conference for Research in Music Education

The focus of this deep-dive, facilitated by the ESF-staff, is on digital tooling to design PEDs, to predict and control the energy flows in a PED and to monitor PEDs and evaluate their effectiveness. All this to accelarete PED development in relation to the Mission of 100 climate-neutral and smart cities …

An interview with HU researcher Beverly Pasian on smart cities, projects and urban life.

There is more and more to do on making better use of plastic waste. The plastic issue has been stressed several times by many governments, public agencies, businesses and academics. The concern over plastic waste resulted in plastic roadmaps and plastic pacts that aim to establish a circular plastic …

Our current smart society, where problems and frictions are smoothed out with smart, often invisi ble technology like AI and smart sensors, calls for designers who unravel and open the smart fabric. Societies are not malleable, and moreover, a smooth society without rough edges is neither desirable …

Loneliness among young adults is a growing concern worldwide, posing serious health risks. While the human ecological framework explains how various factors such as socio-demographic, social, and built environment characteristics can affect this feeling, still, relatively little is known about the effect …