poster voor de EuSoMII Annual Meeting in Pisa, Italië in oktober 2023. PURPOSE & LEARNING OBJECTIVE Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are gaining popularity for their ability to autonomously perform tasks and mimic human reasoning [1, 2]. Especially within the medical industry, the implementation of AI solutions has seen an increasing pace [3]. However, the field of radiology is not yet transformed with the promised value of AI, as knowledge on the effective use and implementation of AI is falling behind due to a number of causes: 1) Reactive/passive modes of learning are dominant 2) Existing developments are fragmented 3) Lack of expertise and differing perspectives 4) Lack of effective learning space Learning communities can help overcome these problems and address the complexities that come with human-technology configurations [4]. As the impact of a technology is dependent on its social management and implementation processes [5], our research question then becomes: How do we design, configure, and manage a Learning Community to maximize the impact of AI solutions in medicine?
In steden ontstaan steeds vaker coalities waarin wijkprofessionals samen met burgers, onderzoekers en lokale ondernemers werken aan lokale kansen en oplossingen voor weerbarstige vraagstukken. Stadslabs zijn hierbij een veel gebruikte werkvorm waarvan veel wordt verwacht. Uit de praktijk weten we echter dat het samenwerken binnen een stadslab vaak gepaard gaat met ingewikkelde vragen en dilemma’s. Er is nog veel onduidelijk over de beste werkwijzen voor labs, er is onzekerheid over de meerwaarde voor betrokkenen en er zijn vragen over de (door)werking van lab-werkwijzen in de praktijk. Over deze onderwerpen gaat het onderzoek De Stad als Lab, waar dit magazine op is gebaseerd. Stadslab zijn overal anders, maar betrokkenen worstelen wel met dezelfde vragen en dilemma’s, zoals ‘Wat is nu precies een stadslab en waarvoor valt het in te zetten?’, ‘Hoe organiseer ik gelijkwaardige vormen van samenwerking terwijl ik zelf in een hiërarchische omgeving werk?’, ‘Welke kennis moet ik inzetten bij het ontwerpen van een stadslab?’Voor al die professionals die dagelijks met elkaar en bewoners proberen de stad een beetje mooier, beter en sterker te maken, is dit magazine gemaakt.
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Financieel professionals als accountants, boekhouders, belasting-, financiering- en verzekeringsadviseurs moeten een grotere rol spelen in het faciliteren van de verduurzaming bij hun mkb-klanten om te komen tot brede welvaart. Om dat te kunnen doen is meer kennis nodig over duurzaam adviseren en is er behoefte aan uitwisseling van ervaringen en best practices tussen de verschillende typen financieel professionals. Dit onderzoek gaat zorgen voor meer samenwerking tussen verschillende bloedgroepen van financieel professionals door de oprichting van een advieslab. Wij onderzoeken samen met hen de kansen en mogelijkheden die hier liggen, waarbij wij als kennisinstituut ook een impuls kunnen geven aan de (bij)scholing van de diverse beroepsgroepen. Het onderzoek leidt tot een advies hoe de samenwerking voor verdere kennisuitwisseling het beste kan worden vorm gegeven, een overzicht van bestaande instrumenten en tools voor duurzame advisering en een aanzet voor vervolgonderzoek.
Denim Democracy from the Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD) is an interactive exhibition that celebrates the journey and learning of ARD members, educates visitors about sustainable denim and highlights how companies collaborate together to achieve results. Through sight, sound and tactile sensations, the visitor experiences and fully engages sustainable denim production. The exhibition launches in October 2018 in Amsterdam and travels to key venues and locations in the Netherlands until April 2019. As consumers, we love denim but the denim industry, like other sub-sectors in the textile, apparel and footwear industries, faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project brought leading denim brands, suppliers and stakeholders together to collectively address these issues and take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production. Sustainability challenges are considered very complex and economically undesirable for individual companies to address alone. In denim, small and medium sized denim firms face specific challenges, such as lower economies of scale and lower buying power to affect change in practices. There is great benefit in combining denim companies' resources and knowledge so that collective experimentation and learning can lift the sustainability standards of the industry and lead to the development of common standards and benchmarks on a scale that matters. If meaningful, transformative industrial change is to be made, then it calls for collaboration between denim industry stakeholders that goes beyond supplier-buyer relations and includes horizontal value chain collaboration of competing large and small denim brands. However collaboration between organizations, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to failure. The research behind the Alliance for Responsible Denim project asked a central research question: how do competitors effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability? To answer this question, we used a mixed-method, action research approach. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project mobilized and facilitated denim brands to collectively identify ways to reduce the use of water and chemicals in denim production and then aided them to implement these practices individually in their respective firms.
The denim industry faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been especially criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. Reducing resource use of water, chemicals and energy and changing denim production practices calls for collaboration between various stakeholders, including competing denim brands. There is great benefit in combining denim brands’ resources and knowledge so that commonly defined standards and benchmarks are developed and realized on a scale that matters. Collaboration however, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to fail. This project brings leading denim brands together to collectively take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production, particularly by establishing measurements, benchmarks and standards for resource use (e.g. chemicals, water, energy) and creating best practices for effective collaboration. The central research question of our project is: How do denim brands effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability in denim production? To answer this question, we will use a mixed-method, action research approach. The project’s research setting is the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA), which has a strong denim cluster and is home to many international denim brands and start-ups.
