Joey Wagemans

Last week, we, as a group of students from the TU Delft, designed the future of Texel over a timeframe of 50 years.  The results have been presented to the people of Texel. They were surprised, but still content. The biggest surprise was a flood happening in 2031 that would completely destroy a part of the island. Of course, this flood isn’t based on a calculation, but it’s nice to have such a…

a forecast of the transition to a sustainable personal life on Texel in 2065 (have a look at the video/visuals) a general overview of the sustainable island in 2065, and possible transition pathways (report) an impression of  the development of island tourism 2015-2065 (view the documentary)

Having to design a system to accommodate the community in Texel, on field research on the current situation had to take place. Before coming to Texel, along with the literature study and the online research, we contacted some locals related to the accommodation sector in order to interview them upon our arrival. What we were interested in was the characteristics of the existing buildings and…

Let's say in 50 years i'll decide to take a trip to Texel as a tourist. A wild descision, since the traveling in 50 yeras will be so fast, I could go basically anywhere, perhaps even other planets. Even places I can't reach physically, I would visit virtualy. So why would I vist Texel? The beach wouldn't be so special anymore. I would probably go to Texel for the wildlife, preserved in a closed…

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The presence of the future system for accommodating the community has to obey to some rules and regulations to define the behavior of this system. With the goal of creating a sustainable system by improving the facilities and increasing the winter tourism, the total integrated rhythm of Texel will change from its current state. So, in order for this plan to succeed, there is the need of defining…

In this section we explain which steps are needed to connect the current state of the sub-system with the desired future. This is to determine how the transition towards a sustainable system to accommodate community will be achieved.  The biggest challenge in the transition towards the future sub-system is how to minimize the energy consumption and the overall performance of the current…

The global political agenda of the last 20 years focused on creating economic and regulatory incentives to drive more sustainable industrial development patterns within and between nation states. This is a result of the improved understanding of how innovation interacts with technological, social and ecological systems. The starting point was the first “earth summit” in Stockholm in 1972 and has…

In the world of architecture, everybody is working hard to make the city landscape more green. Green roofs and green façades are presented as the future, which is no false claim. Everybody needs green, as it improves both physical and mental health. Roofs and façades are often left unused as area, so they might as well provide greenery. However, there is another solution. Everyone could just…

Borrás, S., & Edler, J. (2014). Introduction: on governance, systems and change. In S. Borras & J. Edler (Eds.), The governance of socio-technical systems (pp. 1-2; 11-16; 23-xx). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Pesch, U. (2015). Tracing discursive space: Agency and change in sustainability transitions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 90: 379-388.

Interviews While preparing to visit Texel and setting up our team’s strategy, in addition to the literature review, interviews were also taken. Two types of candidates were chosen; a (former) inhabitant of Texel, to introduce us to the everyday life of the islanders and give us an insight on what is going on there, and a graduation student on sustainable accommodation to suggest and provide…

Campsite De Bremakker won the golden barometer in 2009; an award for sustainable touristic companies. To achieve this, a variety of technologies had to be added. The reception is a sustainable house using grey water to flush toilets. The owners use harmless cleaning products. Waste gets separated and the chalets have smart lighting, water meters and solar panels installed. Unfortunately, the…

Per person, we put out 15 tons of CO 2 per year. Normally this would be released into the air. Plants would take in the CO 2 and turn it into oxygen thanks to photosynthesis, but what if CO 2 was collected and converted into actual solid matter. The Arizona State University claims it’s possible, although it might create more problems than that it would solve. A concept design shows a box with a…

In this section we explain which steps are needed to connect the current state of the sub-system with the desired future. This is to determine how the transition towards a sustainable system to accommodate community will be achieved.  The biggest challenge in the transition towards the future sub-system is how to minimize the energy consumption and the overall performance of the current…

In this chapter we build upon the gained knowledge of the previous three chapters and the research done so far in order to design the way (or the different pathways) in order to achieve our goal. An overview on relevant literature for the design of pathways of sustainable development is given in the first section, followed by our ideas on solutions that could be applied in order to define our…

The difference between the current and the future systems lays on that fact that the desired condition will have a higher focus on being independent. Moreover, there will be more available resources to fulfil the accommodation needs of the community. The current system is static and the way it operates is the same as when divined by the architect, planner and designer. The future will be a system…

It is assumed that the two subsystems mentioned above will also exist in the future. Nevertheless, they must not only be effective in and of themselves, but they must be re-designed in such a way as to accommodate and support each other. It is only by meeting the demands of both of them that our subsector of accommodate community will reach optimal performance in the future. The use of Innovative…

The socio-technical system requires that the technical and human elements forming the whole will be recognized as independent parts which, nevertheless, interact with each other in distinct ways, are distinguishable from their environment, have developed specific forms of collective knowledge production, knowledge utilization and innovation, and which are oriented towards specific purposes in…

The following paragraph contains a critical analysis by all team members of the required readings (Borrás&Edler, 2014; Pesch, 2015) on socio-technical systems and sustainability. Several ideas and concepts were introduced and discussed in order to be applied in our team’s vision for a sustainable accommodation system in Texel. The notion “socio-technical and innovation system” refers to…

This is the first chapter of the research made towards a sustainable tourist accommodation system in Texel. The first subchapter is dedicated to literature review of the required readings; introducing and discussing ideas in order to apply in our team’s vision. In the second part the current sub-system is being discussed, whereas in the third chapter its future characteristics are being analyzed.

Cars have been in our lives for as long as we can remember. Many people probably can’t even imagine how to live without them. It has become more than just a technical artefact. It has become a social construct. At the same time there are people in this world right now, who have never used a car. Perhaps they don’t need transportation or perhaps the car is simply not an important part of their…