Happy city hub - circular innovation hub
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Current research assignments

Current graduation projects of the Inclusive City Hub

How to connect rural and urban in a local circular way? (Farm cooperatives)

  • Connect by new business models (meaning threats, opportunities, value proposition, potential markets,…) of urban agriculture (Katrin, Rotterdam)
  • Connect by circular urban agriculture (Graham, Delft)
  • Connect by converting manure from city and landscape to bokashi (Randy, Leiden)

How to adapt communities & business of CID the Hague into the circular economy?

  • Adapt by: intermediary Business models (Caspar, Rotterdam)
  • Adapt by: designing conversations that inspire (Stifani, Breda)
  • Adapt by: sustainable Currency (Jamie, Rotterdam)

How can we activate collective use of spaces as places to share and produce together?

  • Activate by: urban commoning strategies (Liesbeth, Utrecht)
  • Activate by: participatory art (Ulrike, Rotterdam)
  • Activate by: designing the built environment (Veerle, Delft)

Background of the Inclusive City Hub 

The essence of the Inclusive City Hub, comes down to the intrinsic motivation of people participate in the transition towards a circular economy.  The transition towards a new economy, comes along with new perspective on social structures in our society. 

To learn more about the importance of happy cities", watch the TED talk "The happy city experiment" with Charles Montgomery. 

Go back to the Inclusive City Hub landing page.