Sustainable renovation decision-making board game for VVE's by Marilou van der Vlugt

The energy transition is crucial across various sectors, including housing. Constructing energy-efficient buildings and renovating older structures are key steps to reduce emissions. Renovation focuses on improving thermal quality and integrating green energy sources, addressing both climate and social goals, particularly to combat energy poverty. Participation is vital in this process, but it faces barriers. Marilou has identified six themes: position, trust in officials, knowledge, social cohesion, practical factors, and personal factors. To find a way to do engage residents, a Research through Design approach was used, exploring vision building workshops, public discussions, serious gaming, and interactive knowledge tools. The outcome is an interactive and visually engaging design to reduce the identified barriers, empowering residents to shape sustainable renovation processes for their homes.

MSc Thesis - Engaging residents in sustainable renovation by simplifying complexity

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Impact template

Category	Activity	Participants	Place	Time
Diversity	Learning, Ecological, Economical, Social, Activities	All residents	My street, Test Neighbourhood	Short term
Input What will participants do?	A Research through Design approach was used, exploring vision building workshops, public discussions, serious gaming, and interactive knowledge tools.
Output What will happen?	The outcome is an interactive and visually engaging boardgame to reduce the identified barriers, empowering residents to shape sustainable renovation processes for their homes.
Outcome What will change?	The project concludes with an embodied design solution that addresses the problem using an interactive and visually engaging approach. The design aims to reduce barriers related to the four of the six themes found: position, knowledge, social cohesion and practical factors. Ultimately, to enable residents to engage and interact with the available information to let them experience the influence they can have in shaping the sustainable renovation process of their own homes.
Impact What will be learned?	How to improve the tool and learn if it actually makes the transition easier and more inclusive for the residents.