Chapter 4: Design pathways

In the text Islands at the Periphery, S. Moncada, M. Camilleri, S. Formosa en R. Galea, the focus is on the sustainable development of the EU and how islands are separated from these goals. There are three main problems why all the islands are excluded;  1) restrictive definition of island,  2) peripherality and insularity and  3) the lack of harmonised statistical data on fundamental factors.

Why change is needed As said in previous section, the current situation is a decreasing amount of true Texelaars that are emotionally connected to Texel and a decrease in higher levels of education followed and work done by Texelaars. In order to get higher education or higher levels of job opportunities, people as of now need to leave the island, leading to less and less ‘Texel identity’. In…

This chapter is the continuation of 1.3, where the future ST sub-system was described. Here, some more details of this system will be covered. How will the technologies be embedded in culture and behaviour? In the future we can imagine the “teach your own” sub-system harmonically integrated to the socio-technical context of Texel. It is easy for Students to be adapted in new technologies; every…