{"id":12156,"date":"2024-12-12T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/projecten\/fostering-the-sustainable-energy-transition-through-design\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:37:26","slug":"fostering-the-sustainable-energy-transition-through-design","status":"publish","type":"projecten","link":"https:\/\/8d.nl\/en\/projecten\/fostering-the-sustainable-energy-transition-through-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering the sustainable energy transition through design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In collaboration with eVRgreen Studio<\/a>, our designers developed the board game ?Warmlopen in Amersfoort? (Getting Warmed Up in Amersfoort). This intervention is designed to help the Municipality of Amersfoort engage its residents in a collective reflection on their city’s sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The energy transition demands collaborative efforts across local, regional, and national levels. Within the sustainable energy transition?focused on improving heating systems and home insulation?effective coordination of measures is essential. Collective solutions, such as heat networks, allow neighborhoods to transition more quickly and efficiently. However, decisions made by one neighborhood can sometimes impact the options available to others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In collaboration with eVRgreen Studio, our designers created the board game ?Warmlopen in Amersfoort?. The game engages residents in reflecting on their city’s sustainability through play. What options are available? Since not everyone shares the same background or resources, it?s crucial to consider these differences. How can you inspire others, and what impact might your decisions have on neighboring communities?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n

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The success of the sustainable energy transition ultimately depends on people?their behavior, values, and willingness to change or collaborate determine its success. While there is extensive knowledge on how to approach the energy transition, solutions are unlikely to be adopted without public support or a clear sense of urgency. Designing an intervention to encourage collaboration around such a complex theme aligns perfectly with our expertise. After all, using social design, we develop solutions tailored to the needs and aspirations of real people living real lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the project \u2018Warmlopen in Amersfoort,\u2019 we implemented our full social design<\/a> cycle. A key step was refining the project objectives through a Problemstorm session: What exactly do we want to achieve, and most importantly, for whom? This session revealed that the implicit learning objective\u2014conveying that collaboration accelerates and improves progress in the energy transition\u2014was considered the most important. More important, in fact, than ensuring residents immediately understood all technical details about sustainable energy transition measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Based on these insights, our designers developed several creative concepts. A board game with role-playing<\/a> elements proved to be the best fit for the project\u2019s goals. Our team then iteratively developed the gameplay, created and tested paper prototypes, and collaborated with energy transition experts to write and validate the content for the game cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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