Apologies and Motives for the Inactivity & Spoiler of Future Content

Hello Guys! First of all I would like to wish You all a joyful new year with the hope that the sustainable future the world is aiming to achieve will become less of an utopia and more of a fact.

I strongly apology for not having posted anything for the past 4 months. I had to commute every day from Rotterdam to TU Delft! to follow a pretty intensive yet fascinating Minor ("Designing Sustainability Transitions") on how to bring about sustainable transitions. This involved meticolously analyzing systems and the relationships of their parts while being armed with Design and Sustainability Theories to solidly make a plan to switch from the Undesireable Present to reach a Desireable Future.

In particular, in a Course called "Design Challenge", my team and I created 2 huge mindmaps in a time span of 15 weeks. In the first map, we carefully analyze how the current Dutch Healthcare Sector works and in particular how the whole system heavily relies on Single-Use Medical Devices. In the second map, we strived to highlight the advantages of Reusable Medical Devices and how there are a lot of possible start-up collaboration pathways for the EMC (Erasmus Medical Center) to convert Single Use Medical Devices into Reusable ones. This obvioulsy requires a system change in the relationship between dimensions within and ouside the Hospital. What I want to say is that, as my team and I realized after thorough investigation, the Hospital will be able to start working on shifting its systems dynamics (procurement of medical devices, usage, and disposal practices, collaboration with sustainable start-ups...) only when the external stakeholders will create room for it. This means that, for example, citizens have to shift their closure mindset towards reusable devices and start to fully trust them. At the same time, new law regulations for easier procurement practices must exist. Only at this point, it would be possible to start shaping a solid and effective sustainable transition.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to publish the mind-maps since TU Delft! has the rights for them, but I will create awareness posts on similar system dynamics after I will have conducted deep individual research and analysis!

Stay Tuned! :)