Janne de Hoop

Since at Texel we have been talking a lot about change and the willingness for change I have been thinking about it a lot myself. To me most subjects didn't ask for change in my case. Talking about eating less meat, I have been a vegetarian for more than half my life already, talking about using less plastic, I use only my own bags and go to the market every week to save packages (and money). To…

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)

Re-generating Inorganic waste: Proposal for field research   On Tuesday afternoon 12 January 2016, 13:00-17:30 hrs, the group has to organise its own additional research on the sub-system. To draw your design in even more detail, you may want to visit a company to do some interviews with experts, inhabitants, entrepreneurs, civil servants or politicians. It is recommended to start timely with…

 

This section will describe and analyse the actual trends and initiatives in the current waste system on Texel. It describes the strategies from the municipality as well as the local initiatives. 3.2.1 Strategies from the municipality In the document ´Grondstoffenplan´ (Texel, 2013) the municipality describes several strategies, which mainly focuses on the better separation of the waste on Texel.

When moving to Delft I had to decorate a new room. At first I thought this would be a chance to have a room which was not completely filled with stuff, but after living there for a couple of years (and being less at my parents house) I started to miss some stuff that I always kept in my parents house. In my fourth year in Delft I moved all my books including the shelves they were on to Delft. I…

During the research on the waste management system choices had to be made in order to properly narrow down the design problem. In this research the relations between the inhabitants of Texel, companies operating on Texel and the tourists visiting Texel turned out to be of great importance. The inhabitants can set the example, but both the companies and the tourists product a lot of waste and are…

As can be seen in the pathways there are a lot of stakeholders and events that are related to changing the waste treatment system. The municipality should communicate their vision and make way for entrepreneurs to be able to start new sustainable waste treatment businesses (and others). The existing companies should have a common understanding about sustainability and have to implement it in…

A couple of weeks ago I was on a wedding, the wedding of my aunt actually. There were not a lot of people of my age or people that I new (only my own nieces, nephews and brother) and I ended up talking to people I didn’t know. Normally this results in conversations about the wether, the education you are following and if you are lucky you reach newsroom subjects. But one of the conversations was…

This week I had a day in Rotterdam.There I got to meet some interesting people. All the meetings I had were driven by our interest in one company: Rotterzwam. This is a company based in Rotterdam harvesting oyster mushrooms from coffee left overs. To learn more about the company we were looking for both the supplier of the coffee and well as the buyer of the oyster mushrooms. This brought us to…

The main challenge of Texel is being 100% self-sustaining in 2065. To meet this vision within this project the waste regeneration of inorganic waste will be tackled. Since the waste is shipped to the mainland at this moment the goal for the future is to have a closed loop system. The waste generated on the island will be brought back in a profitable way for the island. As written before this can…

Next to Engineering for Sustainable Development I am also following another course with sustainability as the main topic, it is called Strategic Sustainable Design. For this course we have to interview people from a company. This company, or case, has to have something to do with sustainability. This week we interviewed Anneke. One of the things we asked her is how the companies vision (working…

The context, place and time, is quite fixed for the tourists. So the design space is situated more in the action and relation part. The tourists need to be more ‘connected’ to the local citizens. They need to tune in and be engaged in the system of collecting and seperating the waste. When also their communion feeling is improved, their reputation will go up. What is important is that they will…

Janne de Hoop 1. Presence and design for presence from Nevejan (2015) To achieve change and look for the right field of change the behaviour of people in a socio-technological system is split up in different categories by Nevejan (2015). These factors influence each other as well as influence external people and resources within the socio-technological system. These factors can be divided into 4…

Studying at TU Delft learned me to apply sustainability in all the projects I am doing. One of the things that I realised along the way is that there is still a lot to improve in the products I use everyday and the lifestyle I have. It feels strange to be motivating other people to live more sustainable without applying it in my own context as well. In my home situation this results in separating…

Sinterklaas… I think most of you know of Sinterklaas, have celebrated it since they where little, or got to know it as a typical Dutch tradition. This Saturday the man and his helpers arrived in the Netherlands again to bring all children in the country presents (if they behaved of course). Since I was little I have been celebrating Sinterklaas with my whole family. When I was still a child the…