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P2P vs Social Media
In case somebody who might not know about P2P, let me explain it briefly. P2P stands for peer to peer which is an interface where you can share media or information with other people who are willing to share. Even in social media such as Facebook, you share your posts, links and pictures, in Twitter you share hashtag. Although the way both P2P and social media work seem to be similar, there is an… -
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Top Down Brain to Brain Interfacing
The realisation of telepathy in the not so distant futureIn recent years research on brain computer interfacing has strongly developed. For the future a logical next step is the interface between two brains or brain-to-brain communication. Sounds a bit scary! So which values have to be taken into consideration before it can be accepted by the market? What kind of development approach is needed? Brain to brain interfacing is a combination of brain… -
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NS: From No Service to No Stress
Possible improvements for the “Nationale Spoorwegen” based on the value sensitive design.When travelling with the Dutch public transportation train company NS there is one thing that you will probably notice. There is a lot of room for improvement. Lucy has to go to work 5 days in the week and in the weekend she often goes to a museum in another city. Lucy will tell you her opinion of the design and the the possible improvements. Does the NS have a value sensitive design? A value… -
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Keep students from following Robert Moses’ footsteps!
By making sure Value Sensitive Design is taught to every future innovator.An example that is often used in the discussion if design represents values is that of Robert Moses’ low hanging overpasses . Robert Moses, “master builder” of New York from the 1920s to the 1970s and responsible for many of the roads, bridges and parks built in that period, designed the overpasses on parkways in Long Island extraordinarily low. It is said that he did this on purpose, to… -
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Water design in UK: Cities of the future?
Water sensitive design essentially a design approach integrated by the UK to achieve higher harmony between water, the environment, and… -
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Planetree: VSD in hospitals.
Planetree is an organization that designed a complete healthcare plan for hospitals that incorporates all the values patients find… -
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Architecture: the art of human interaction
Roughly there are two ways to interpret architecture. On the one hand there is a style that includes the fact that buildings are based on… -
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Do wind turbines safe or destroy nature?
The NIMBY problems of wind turbines and how value sensitive design could have prevented this.The large-scale introduction of onshore and offshore wind turbines remains a societal challenge, despite its potential for providing sustainable energy. In the Netherlands and elsewhere issues of social acceptance have meant that offshore wind energy is increasingly being considered as an option, despite greater technical and economic difficulties as compared to onshore wind. The application of… -
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The Wakawaka
We as the Dutch population belong to the top 10 percent wealthiest of the world population. We educate our youth to become citizens of this society by schooling them as good as possible and teaching them to come up with innovative ideas and products. We have a lot of knowledge in all different kind of fields because we always try to push the limits in our designs and often this leads to very good… -
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Utopia revised
When values will be taken more into account during the design of a neighborhood, then safety, sustainability and human well-being can go…
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