Julieta Matos_Castaño

University of Twente | UT

This essay elaborates on how design research education can play a pivotal role in fostering futures-oriented competences through the provision of transdisciplinary spaces of co-speculation in learning trajectories. These spaces bring communities together around societal challenges, encouraging active engagement in the exploration of potential futur...

Addressing societal challenges requires taking a systems perspective, and establishing a shared understanding and mutual learning. This includes not only learning and gaining a systemic understanding about a system's complexity, but also of the perspectives and values involved in challenges to be addressed. In this study, 'speculative games', games...

In this chapter, we argue that socio-technical controversies are conflicts to embrace and utilize, rather than to smoothen out or avoid. Building on theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies and Philosophy of Engineering, and contextualizing these in the smart city, we highlight a threefold potential of smart city controversies to wo...

Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication and algorithmization? How can we...

We examine the role of participatory design activities in supporting sense-making while anticipating technological effects in smart cities. The effects of technology are not univocal. Therefore, creating smart city visions that enclose multiple meanings requires providing environments where stakeholders make the often-implicit processes of meaning...

Multifunctional projects integrate land uses to fulfill economic, environmental and social objectives. Planning multifunctional projects is complex because of the interdependence of effects and actors. When selecting functional combinations, actors often encounter dilemmas related to the project priorities. This paper draws on an earlier categoriza...

Dilemmas are pervasive in decision making. Although they offer the potential of reflecting on issues at stake from different perspectives, dilemmas often lead to paralysis for those encountering them. This study presents a three dimensional collaboration tool specifically developed to surface dilemmas in a multi-actor context. The assumption is tha...

Koning Citroen vindt het best wel moeilijk om een goede koning voor zijn land te zijn. Een minister helpt hem gelukkig. Maar op een dag was er een heel erg groot probleem met het water in het land… Dit boekje kan worden voorgelezen aan 3 tot 6 jarigen. De illustratie aan het eind van het boekje kan worden gebruikt om woordjes te leren, terwijl 6 to...

Purpose – Prime contractors spent a substantial part of their turnover on purchasing. The management of the purchasing function therefore has a large influence on the overall performance of a prime contractor. The more developed the purchasing function is, the greater its contribution to success of the companies. The purpose of this paper is to mea...

Multifunctional projects offer advantages because they enable synergetic effects among functions. However, realizing these plans is more challenging than mono-functional projects because of the difficult adjustment of several functions in an area and the involvement of a larger diversity of actors with often conflicting interpretations about decisi...

In the recent past, several countries and states have begun to use Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure development and have attempted to create institutional environments that enable PPPs. Providing an enabling environment for PPPs entails a combination of institutional creation and changing existing institutions relating to proje...