Hugo Polman

‘Out of the box denken’ en visualiseren in een samenwerkingsproces De vierde dag van onze Texel week draait om het uitwerken van een gezamenlijke visie waarin verschillende duurzaamheidsthema’s worden gecombineerd. De dag is gestart met het samenvatten van eerdere bevindingen wat heeft geleid tot een tweetal bewandelbare richtingen om te komen tot een duurzaam Texel in 2065. ‘Out of the box’…

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…

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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…

2.4.    Comparisment and conclusion The four YUTPA analyses have been completed. The differences between the current and the future situation for both the local homeowner and the tourist will be compared, which will eventually lead to a conclusion. A new graph is made showing the difference in all the segments that scored higher than 5 and are seen an important. The difference between the local…

2.3.    Description of future daily life regarding accommodation. Now that the present situation has been analyzed, it’s time for the future. The same two types of accommodation will be used as in the previous paragraph, private and tourist accommodation. The future analyses will view the situation differently, what if the goal is partly or fully achieved. Texel is more sustainable and tourism is…

2.2.    Description of current daily life regarding accommodation. The next step is to describe the needs, mechanism and details of the functioning of the accommodation in Texel. To do this, the aforementioned YUTPA analysis is used on two types of accommodation and two timeframes. This chapter will describe the YUTPA analyses for the present. The first type is private accommodation, housing the…

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5.2.    Expectations and potential tensions with other subsystems Up until now the subsystem accommodate community has had a focus toward accommodations within the  design challenge. However, if the accommodation on Texel gradually changes, other subsystems are likely to change with it. This means that, although the current change in this sub-system might work, it could have negative impact on…

5.1.   Conclusions about the accomodation analysis and design. The analysis of Texel showed an island which experiences a repeating cycle with two stages; summertime with a high amount of tourism and wintertime with a low amount of tourism. This is what defines the biggest part of the subsystem accommodate community, since a large number summer homes on the island are empty for a big part of the…

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.

For a while ago I have been searching for a company that could offer me a graduation assignment. The main requirement for me was getting involved into a BoP (Base of Pyramid) project. This means that the project should focus on people in the world who have less than one dollar a day to spend. During my search for an assignment, I was able to get into contact with a lot of companies who had their…

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…

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 war on malaria and dengue has been going on for a while now. Most of the solutions offered nowadays are too inefficient and only treat the symptoms of the disease. Many people in critical areas cannot afford malaria tablets and even if they can, there is a high change that the bought medicine is not even effective. Therefore the solutions now lies at exterminating the source of the problem

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…

Change of ownership, Currently there is becoming more and more a trend towards shared ownership instead of actually owning your products. Examples of product like these are greenwheels, the NS public transport bike and Airbnb. For me as an Industrial Designer who is focussed on sustainability is that a very interesting direction, I think that this direction should be stimulated even more.

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.