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Creating a market for price swaps: Case study of an innovative risk management instrument in the Belgian-Dutch pear market

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2021
While the benefits of using futures to manage price risk are widely recognised, only certain groups of farmers have suitable futures at their disposal.
Eewoud Lievens   +2 more
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Designing next-next generation products and services: a design-led futures framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Within the design industry there has been much promotion of how designers can engage with future oriented projects yet, there has been little investigation within academic design research of the methods employed. In some ways much of the discourse coming
Evans, Martyn
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Design Anthropological Futures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal ...
Otto, Ton   +5 more
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Futures by Design in different regional contexts

open access: yes, 2023
Futures by Design (2019-2022) was an Interreg project carried out in six European North Sea regions with the goal to support the digitization trajectory of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Beneficiaries in the regions of Cambridgeshire, England,
Koster, Sierdjan; id_orcid   +3 more
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Designing sustainable futures

open access: yesNordic Design Research Conference, 2013
This paper discusses how future studies and design could enable a more conscious and participatory engagement in our common future. The starting point being that representations of the future are often done in an abstract and quantitative manner, which hinders a broad engagement, and understanding of the implications of the scenarios presented.
Ilstedt, Sara, Wangel, Josefin
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparing gate and annealing-based quantum computing for configuration-based design tasks

open access: yesDesign Science
Complete exploration of design spaces is often computationally prohibitive. Classical search methods offer a solution but are limited by challenges like local optima and an inability to traverse dislocated design spaces.
Oliver Schiffmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Education Techno-Monitoring Futures: A Participatory Speculative Critical Design Case

open access: yesInteraction Design and Architecture(s), 2021
In learning and education, techno-monitoring practices are a growing trend. While these practices are still emerging, there has been no public debate on education stakeholders’ preferred futures regarding techno-monitoring in learning and ...
Eva Durall Gazulla
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Roles of Artifacts in Speculative Futures: Perspectives in HCI

open access: yesSystems
In an era where technology increasingly blurs the boundaries between humans and machines, artifacts have become crucial mediums for critically examining the technological, social, and ethical dimensions of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI).
Lin Zhu, Jiayue Wang, Jiawei Li
doaj   +1 more source

A New Mode for Medium and Long-Term Electricity Trade Based on Standardized Futures

open access: yesZhongguo dianli, 2021
The electricity futures are a kind of electricity financial contract that can effectively lower the trading risk in the electricity spot market. With the advance of China's electricity market reform, the marketization degree of electricity trade is ...
Junqiang SHI, Zeyu LIU, Donghan FENG
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring bio-based materials in an interdisciplinary learning environment: Outlining the design inquiry cycle

open access: yes, 2022
This article focuses on a higher education learning environment that combines expertise in design and chemical engineering in the field of bio-based materials and in a framework of inquiry-based learning (IBL).
Laamanen, Tarja-Kaarina   +1 more
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