Katja Rossen

During our final week of research on how to make Texel self-sufficient in 2065 we actually went to Texel to do some on-site research and make one shared plan as a group. Some special news came to us during our stay: six male sperm whales, who probably had accidentally chosen the wrong way back to the south, had washed up on the shore of Texels’ beach. When I did some more research on these huge…

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)

Numbers During the field research, we performed 13 interviews. Since some interviews were conducted with multiple people, the total amount of interviewees is 19. From those 18 people (15 women and 3 men), 11 people had shares of TESO and 6 people had shares in Texel Energie. Of these people, 3 people had shares of both TESO and Texel Energie. Recently, 1 person has left Texel Energie and another…

Data collected from the interviews is available for you consultation  HERE!

Texel Questionnaire – Permanently innovate Target population: people living in Texel older than 18 years old.   This questionnaire aimed to provide an insight about Texel inhabitants opinions, to validate and adapt our decisions regarding our proposals for Permanent Innovation in Self sufficient Texel 2065. The interviews took place at the center of the village of Den Burg in Texel at 12 of…

Texel 2065   Remark: This idea of Texel was created in order to get a discussion going on, not really because it is my personal ideal future situation. Furthermore, it should not be seen as a finished vision of daily life.   Today I woke up and looked outside, I did not like the view of yesterday and decided to choose a new one; I want to live at the beach of Texel today to get more inspiration…

This appendix refers to the Chapter 2 literature review. In this chapter each of the members of our group reviewed the concepts of presence, pro-environmental behaviour and well-being . Presence (Nevejan, 2015) Team member Concept interpretation Lesson(s) learned Graciela People have presence when they actively pursue their well-being in their own lives. Nowadays, presence…

The present report is part of a Master level course taught at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management in Delft University of Technology. The course, Engineering for Sustainable Development , has the objective of improving the students’ capabilities to contribute to sustainability. We learn about sustainable development by conducting research about Texel as a sustainable island and…

This appendix refers to the Chapter 4 literature review. In this chapter each of the members of our group reviewed the concepts of green industrialization, hybrid innovations and transition pathways. Green Industrialisation (Ely, Smith, Stirling, 2013) Team member Concept interpretation Lesson(s) learned Graciela Sustainability changes where market values and business interests…

Research plan ‘Permanently Innovate’ Date: Tuesday afternoon 12 January 2016, 13:00-17:30 hrs Research question(s) How can Texelaars be motivated and inspired to engage in sustainable innovation?   Here motivation is the general willingness to contribute to sustainable innovation. Inspiration is having specific ideas on how to contribute. We see inspiration as dependent on motivation, as someone…

Research question(s) How can Texelaars be motivated and inspired to engage in sustainable innovation? Here motivation is the general willingness to contribute to sustainable innovation. Inspiration is having specific ideas on how to contribute. We see inspiration as dependent on motivation, as someone who is not motivated in a certain topic will not be inspired on it. Therefore, we split the…

In this section we reflect on our own research and vision in the light of the work of our fellow teams. We identified what goes along with our vision and what could cause friction. We summarize those findings in the table below.   Sub-system What goes along with our vision What causes friction Remarks All groups   Most groups want to change the mindset of Texelaars in order to…

In this chapter, we present the main findings of our sub-system analysis. Additionally, we keep a list of information that we have and information that is still missing in our research. The last list serves as input for the field research which we will perform on Texel.   In Chapter 1 we conducted an initial exploration of the sub-system on Texel. Our objective was to get familiar with what is…

While we currently are trying to be more sustainable, we might also be overlooking an important factor...Have you ever wondered where our ‘sustainable’ products are being made and what kind of energy is being used for these production processes? Although probably not everywhere, but definitely at some places in China, the factories in which our sustainable goods, for example solar panels or wind…

Following on last week’s column and the climate negotiations in Paris I was wondering how much our food really is contributing to climate change. Last week I found out that agriculture is a major driver of climate change. Globally, food systems are responsible for about thirty percent of all human driven greenhouse gas emissions and the production of animals and of crops for feed alone accounts…

North Inlet Trail, Colorado  by  Brian & Jaclyn Drum . On  July 2010 , this file was licensed with the Creative Commons License  CC BY-SA 2.0 . This week, we have read the article Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability? by Ely, Smith and Stirling (2013) and Exploring sustainability transitions in the electricity sector with socio-technical pathways by Verbong and Geels…

Social Network Analysis Visualization by  Martin Grandjean . On November 2013, this file was licensed with the Creative Commons License  CC BY-SA 3.0 .   This section describes the future sub-system, when the vision we propose is achieved, from the perspective of presence. We do this by drawing a new diagram with the stakeholders and their new interactions. Secondly, we recall the YUTPA framework…

In this section we present our two different pathways to achieve our 2065 vision: the Texel Innoveert and the Sustainaversity. For each of them we describe an action agenda for the first five years and then the necessary milestones for the pathway to arrive at our vision. In addition, we describe how these changes are perceived by the actors involved and what is necessary for each of the…

Man holds digital tablet in his hands by  Karolina Grabowska . This file was licensed with the Creative Commons License  CC0 Public Domain.   In order to achieve our future vision (explained in Section 1.3 ), we developed two different pathways that follow diverse strategies (to be explained in detail at Section 4.4 ). We elaborated these pathways taking into account the research presented in the…

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In this document, we convey the main conclusions of the interview with Antoine Maartens, who is working on energy neutral (Wadden) islands for Urgenda. The interview took place at the 3ME faculty on December 3th right after his lecture about the agenda and vision of Urgenda. This summary is written from the ‘I’ perspective to allow easy reading, but it is no literal transcription of the dialogue.

In this article we convey the main conclusions of the interview with the student Anton which took place at the TPM faculty on December 9th. It is written from the ‘I’ perspective to allow easy reading, but it is no literal transcription of the dialogue. Below the interview, we reflect on the lessons learned from this interview for our project. Interview answers What is your connection to Texel?

In this chapter, we present the summaries of the interview we have taken. Please stay tuned until our work is finished and uploaded!

Last week I came across an interesting  test on the website of ‘het voedingscentrum’. This quick test is about how your food(print) affects your ecological footprint. By wanting to know more on this particular subject the test made me curious about my own ‘foodprint’; what do my own specific food choices mean for the impact on the environment? Not only for the space but also for the amount of…

During the end of my bachelor, while attending a lecture of one of the professors on the faculty of architecture, I was confronted with the question posed in the title of this column. As you yourself might think right now, my first reaction was: Yes, of course! Bicycling is a very sustainable activity, especially when you compare its’ ‘ín-use’ carbon footprint with the one from a car or a plane.

  Sustainability transitions are currently taking place all around the world. From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, people and organizations who push for sustainability can serve as inspiration for Texel’s transition; likewise, Texelaars’ experience can also provide lessons to those initiatives. To situate our research in the broader context of global sustainability innovations, our…

Image  by Calsidyrose (2010). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic .   In the previous section we identified current developments and trends on Texel. Here, we will assess for each of them whether they contribute to (the direction of) our vision for Texel by 2065. Table 1 presents the results.   Table 1: Overview of trends which move into the desirable or undesirable…

This section investigates the actual relevant trends and initiatives within the Permanent Innovation sub-system on Texel. What characterizes Texel and the Texelaar? What are their ambitions? What activities take place? Identity of the island The identify of the island is characterized by its small scale community. This is an advantage for Texel, because it allows communication between politics

The third chapter of our report has been inspired by two notions. First, innovations come in many forms and sizes. Seconds, innovations are made by people. In this section we discuss grassroots innovations and intermediaries, two concepts from Hargreaves, Hielscher, Seyfang & Smith  (2013)’s work that explain the origin of our two chapter claims.  In a few words, our research in Texel aims at…

What does the above story mean? How can we create this reality? What needs to change now, in order to start the transition? These questions will be answered in this section, as well as a refined formulation of our design challenge.   Required change For reaching the situation described in the previous section, a system change is required. Behaviour of all actors should become both pro

Image by  Booyabazooka  (2006). Licensed under Creative Commons  Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.     Based on the results from the previous section, we compose the YUTPA graph of the future sub-system for both citizens and innovators (Figures 4 and 5 respectively). These graphs have the previous results as a basis, increasing the scores for situated agency, synchronizing performance and…

Patrizio Cuscito 's image (2008). Licensed under  Creative Commons 2.0   In this section we apply the YUTPA framework to the citizens of Texel and to innovators on Texel. Caroline Nevejan presents the concept ‘Presence’, which we defined in the above section. She argues that design for presence goes along with design for trust, which are both about making trade-offs. Trade-offs between ‘you’ and…

Have you have ever thought about the fact that almost all fruits and vegetables you find in supermarkets look so perfect? For example the apples, tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet peppers per specie are all evenly shaped and are almost the same size. However, this doesn’t mean that misshaped fruits and vegetables do not exist. In fact, there is a huge amount (about 40%) of products that just doesn’t…

Our team draws inspiration from the literature to identify starting points for the design of the future innovation sub-system. We started by using a review (Venhoeven, 2013) and a book chapter (Nevejan, 2015) to gain insight in presence, pro-environmental behaviour and well-being. These topics are crucial to design for. Pro-environmental behaviour is the desired behaviour for Texelaars. However

Problem statement It follows from the future vision in Section 1.3 that the Permanently Innovate subsystem in Texel requires a sustainable transition towards a socio-technical regime that enables to permanently conduct sustainable transitions. In other words, it is the transition towards Permanently Innovate what would enable future transitions in other subsystems. Thus, the main gap between the…

Image by  Booyabazooka  (2006). Licensed under Creative Commons  Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.   From our initial literature review, we defined what a Permanently Innovate socio-technical system would look like, as explained here . In a few words, Texel is 100% self sufficient and Permanently Innovates when: Texel maintains the six elements of a system of innovation, including actors and…

Patrizio Cuscito 's image (2008). Licenced under  Creative Commons 2.0     For the sub-system Permanently Innovate , it is relevant to identify the elements of current systems of innovation that are present in the island. Based on the work by Coenen and López (2010), we defined as sustainable innovation to those technologically novel or improved goods, services or ways of production (Edquist

Our team drew inspiration from the literature to start thinking and designing for Texel. We started by using an article (Pesch, 2015) and a book chapter (Borræs & Edler, 2014) to delineate our idea of how Texel currently innovates and how it can engage in the process of permanently innovate.  From that literature, we collected the concepts that we found most useful for our research; afterwards

Sustainability as a concept has become more and more important during the last couple of years. An increasing amount of people is becoming aware of the problems we create for both our and the future generation and almost everyone seems to have the same (ultimate) goal to save ourselves from killing our own planet. So, sustainability worldwide is a relevant subject of conversation, innovation and…