Storytelling

Our storyline reflects our vision and interventions. This storyline will embody the campus' beliefs while making the campus a place of interests for its visitors. Storytelling will enhance interaction between the campus' visitors and our proposed interventions, as well as raising awareness about sustainability. Visitors will be able to connect and start conversations about topics on sustainability. Besides, they will be encouraged to take action and start new projects to stimulate the process of making the campus more sustainable. As a result, all users will become familiar with the ongoing innovations at Zernike Campus and will be inspired to take steps towards a more sustainable campus and world.

We propose...

Informative signs

A simple, affordable, yet effective way of teaching users about sustainability is to put several physical signs around the campus. With easy to understand icons and flashy designs, the signs should attract the user but simultaneously should convey the message quickly.

  • Simple, affordable, yet effective way to teach users about sustainability

  • Should convey a message and attract visitors

  • Presents sustainability facts and asks self-reflecting questions to users

  • Users are challenged to think along but also to think about themselves whether their current lifestyle is sustainable

  • QR codes that direct users to an information page



Sustainable crashcourses

These meetings focus on making people aware of the challenges, inspire participants and stimulate participants in executing their plans.

  • Increases ecological literacy

  • Guided by professors or departments like the Green Office of the RUG and can be arranged in shared rooms across the campus or at buildings like the Energy Barn

  • Sign up via screens presented under ‘Smart & Social Technology

  • Evening or weekend courses could enhance liveliness on site


Smart & social technology

Inspired by modern restaurants and the desire of Campus Groningen to become a Smart-Campus; we suggest touch screens at social meeting places: Sustainabords. These units could show events, shared study rooms available across campus, meetings or offer quests from entrepreneurs to stimulate crossovers, Students and businessmen could use these platforms to interact with each other, for example by advertising internship vacancies or business ideas.

  • Teach people about innovations which are showcased on the campus

  • Keep all users up to date with progress on the 'inside' of the campus: innovations made and knowledge acquired behind the screens

  • Increase ecological literacy and awareness of innovations

As a screen saver:

  • Show various sustainability numbers in a visually stimulating and interactive manner (e.g. numbers about water saved, amount of kilowatts collected, live cam of bat/ bird houses)

  • Energy-saving mode so they will not disrupt surrounding animals populations