Esben Bala Skouboe

• PhD
• Aalborg University

Digital Product Passports (DPP) are recognised as a crucial component in advancing the circular economy as well as the EU’s strategic autonomy and supply chain security. DPP aims to provide all stakeholders with extensive information about a product’s makeup and environmental footprint during its production, usage, and end-of-life stages, encouragi...

This chapter explores the use of critical design and storytelling as tools to motivate a person to choose a more sustainable path and change one’s mindset to consumption and nature. The chapter draws on the epistemological notion of lived experience, arguing that people act as a result of their direct experience and that experience is always lived....

Half of the total greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of biodiversity loss come from resource extraction and processing. (EC 2020). To counter this, we must switch to sustainable, long-lasting products and slow down the use of resources. It is clear that these systems will not be fixed by incremental changes but by a series of disruptions. This articl...

A hospital is a strange micro-world; a public place that we only enter with reason. It is a place of birth and death, of happiness and sorrow - it is the scene for the greatest memories of our lives. It is a vulnerable and private place where time stands still, and at the same time it is a fast-paced workplace. All these dimensions and interests ma...

The Circular Economy (CE) is gaining increasing attention due to the need to reduce waste and promote sustainable consumption. The European Commission has proposed a Digital Product Passport (DPP) to support this goal, providing product-specific information such as components, materials, and repairability to promote transparency and inform consumer...

Digital product passports (DPP) are identified as a key element to contribute to the circular economy. DPP focuses primarily on the collection of product and material information from a manufacturing perspective all the way throughout the supply chain and is planned to be implemented through policy development toward 2030. However, we argue that if...

This work contributes to the growing body of work, conducted on the vicinities between well-being and biomedical treatments in health design. The article presents and discusses the design of the new delivery rooms at a Danish hospital in Hjørring, including the multi-sensory artwork: Nordjyske stemninger (Moods of Northern Jutland). The authors are...

The word ecology can be used to describe the environment that surrounds us biologically, socially and technologically. The quest to explore and better understand new aesthetic and perceptual possibilities of mediated realities could lead us towards new ecologies. This is what drives the active development of the artistic projects discussed in this...

In the modern world, cities need to keep up with the demand for mobility, efficient infrastructure and environmental sustainability. The future smart cities use intelligent information and communication technologies to raise the quality of life. This includes computer vision as one of the main technologies. It can observe and analyse human activiti...

Today we update our city architecture every 30-50 years, but what happens if we introduced planning strategies that allow environments to adapt every week? "Smart" has become a label of the progressive, creative and innovative cities, but who does not want to be smart and apply clever insight into city planning and growth? Michael Batty [1] describ...

We distributed fourteen controllable street lamps in a city square and recorded four comparative conditions, operating the public lighting as if it were an interactive stage. First tested was adaptive lighting that responded to people’s occupancy patterns. Second was a mobile phone application that allowed people to customise color and responsive b...

This paper presents a full-scale experiment investigating the use of human motion intensities as input for interactive illumination of a town square in the city of Aalborg in Denmark. As illuminators sixteen 3.5 meter high RGB LED lamps were used. The activity on the square was monitored by three thermal cameras and analysed by computer vision soft...

The research investigates the application of evolutionary computation in relation to sound based morphogenesis. It does so by using the Sabine equation for performance benchmark in the development of the spatial volume and refl ectors, effectively creating the architectural expression as a whole. Additional algorithms are created and used to organi...

This paper presents a study investigating the potential use of human motion intensities as input for parametric urban design. Through a computer vision analysis of thermal images, motion intensity maps are generated and utilized as design drivers for urban design patterns; and, through a case study of a town square, human occupancy and motion inten...

The present paper considers shape control of adaptive architectural structures for improvement of structural performance by recognizing changes in their environments and loads, adapting to meet goals, and using past events to improve future performance or maintain serviceability. The general scopes of the paper are to develop a new adaptive kinetic...

This paper illustrates responsive systems, which focus on the implementation of multi-objective adaptive design prototypes from sensored environments. The intention of the work is to investigate multi-objective criteria both as a material system and as a processing system by creating prototypes with structural integrity, where thermal energy flow t...

This paper illustrates responsive systems, which focus on the implementation of multi-objective adaptive design prototypes from sensored environments. The intention of the work is to investigate multi-objective criteria both as a material system and as a processing system by creating prototypes with structural integrity, where the thermal energy fl...