Making food packaging more sustainable is a complex process. Research has shown that specific knowledge is needed to support packaging developers to holistically improve the sustainability of packaging. Within this study we aim to provide insights in the various tradeoffs designers face with the aim to provide insights for future sustainable food packaging (re)design endeavors. The study consists of analyzing and coding 19 reports in which bachelor students worked on assignments ranging from (1) analyzing the supply chain of a food product-packaging combination to (2) redesigning a specific food packaging. We identified 6 tradeoffs: (1) Perceived Sustainability vs. Achieved Sustainability, (2) Food Waste vs. Sustainability, (3) Branding vs. Sustainability, (4) Product Visibility vs. Sustainability, (5) Costs vs. Sustainability, and (6) Use Convenience vs Sustainability. We compared the six tradeoffs with literature. Two tradeoffs can be seen as additional to topics mentioned within literature, namely product visibility and use convenience. In addition, while preventing food waste is mentioned as an important functionality of food packaging, this functionality seems to be underexposed within practice.
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Er is in Nederland nog weinig wetenschappelijke aandacht voor het werk van penitentiair inrichtingswerkers (PIW’ers). Onderzoek is tot nu toe vooral gericht op werkdruk en uitval of onderlinge agressie,een enkele uitzondering daargelaten. Het Nederlandse ‘Prison Project’ is vooral gericht op de effecten van detentie op gedetineerden en hun familie en nauwelijks op ervaringen van degenen die met de gedetineerden werken. Een uitgebreid onderzoek naar het functioneren van PIW’ers dateert al van begin jaren negentig. Er is dan ook betrekkelijk weinig bekend over de beleving en de inhoud van het werk van PIW’ers. In Nederland welteverstaan, want daarbuiten zijn mooie studies verricht, bijvoorbeeld door Liebling en collega’s in Groot-Brittannië en recent door Tournel in België. Niet voor niets wordt het werk van PIW’ers getypeerd als ‘low visibility work’. Er is nog weinig bekend over hun werk en de wijze waarop zij dat werk beleven.
Working as speech acts that delineate online communities, claims to victimhood tend to evoke contestation. Their inherent political nature spurs user engagement in the shape of clicks, shares, emojis, and so on. TikTok’s multimodality has given rise to new practices of engagement that significantly shape how victimhood is communicated and negotiated. This study draws attention to the platform vernacular practice of the ‘stitch.’ Allowing users to respond to someone else by ‘remixing’ social media content of others, the stitch is a platform practice designed for commentary. We zoom in on stitched videos networked by hashtags, published in relation to the Israel-Hamas war. TikTok’s multimodality expands user pathways that connect claimants and those who contest them. Moving beyond hashtag hijacking the stitch elevates a practice of commentary that turns victimhood politics into a spectacle that politicizes formerly less political realms, and that further blurs the boundaries between on- and offline spaces. The analysis shows how stitched videos are especially used for antagonist encounters where they crowd out the ‘original’ post to which they respond. In this way, stitches can be seen as tools that aid platformed ‘regimes’ of visibility that prioritize the antagonist encounter in order to commodify them.
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The recently established BUas Research & Graduate School has been set up to facilitate and coordinate both in-domain and cross-domain research projects. One of its ambitions is to connect our expertise on Digital Realities (DR) with our other research domains. This will give all domains a better position to contribute to the European ambition to create “a Europe fit for the digital age”. Additionally, the project will enable the SPRONG group DIGIREAL-XL to strengthen its visibility and reputation on a European level. Connecting with the European VR/AR Coalition will be an important step to achieve this goal, in combination with activities for extending our European network for DR applications. Key deliverable will be a grant proposal for the new European VR/AR-Lab, in which we combine our DR expertise with our specialized knowledge in other domains (e.g. entertainment, culture, tourism and education). The ultimate goal is to establish a more coherent and focused research portfolio, and reach a better position to contribute to a greener, more digital and more resilient Europe.
Closer Connections aims to build a coherent, cross-academy, virtual- and augmented reality strategy to contribute to the European agenda: “a Europe fit for the digital age”. Closer Connections enables the SPRONG group DIGIREAL to strengthen its visibility and reputation on a European level to build strong alliances with European VR/AR coalitions and associations and apply for EU grants. In this project, a strategic paper on market assessment is developed to determine our position within this European agenda. This is followed by a roadmap for the future utilisation of our rare assets (XR-stage, photogrammetry, etc.), and raise awareness of the unique combination of excellent facilities, creative staff and talented students.
Using technology to improve the adolescents' journey to school by bike in province of Drenthe and Groningen.All unsafe area that children spotted on the map, are because the lack of traffic safety ( lack of visibility, high speed, etc). In general children do not have a positive perception of cycling to school, and their favourite mode of traveling to school is car. What technology based intervention can make adolescents’ cycling to and from school safer and more attractive for them? Also does it help to encourage those who live far from the school (>10 km) to cycle to and from school more often?
