Leisure & knowledge: week 6

Things we have learnt during the time we were on Texel (Monday until Wednesday) which have influenced our design proposal for the sub-system Leisure&Knowledge:   1. Monday afternoon presentation to the whole group and discussion with Carolin: we got some critical questions about our proposed design (4 points). The focus should be on either the sustainability route or the innovation centre, but…

Tourist Information On Tuesday 13/01/2014 we intervied local people on the island to understand their interaction with the tourists, their main interests and activities and ask about what they think of our proposal. Hanneke Keyser is working at the VVV tourist information point at Den Burg and was willing to answer our questions: Q: What is the age of most tourists? A: We have tourists of all…

To sum up, we propose a part of the meta-design that will include all sub-systems. TexelLab In our system we propose the construction and exploiting of TexelLab, which is based on the idea of de Ontdekfabriek in Rotterdam and somewhat like the Science Centre  in Delft, in order to mainly involve children and let them make their own sustainability. Constructions, small systems, games, etc will…