INNOWIZ: a guided framework for projects in industrial design education

This paper presents the concrete application of the INNOWIZ methodology in a design education context. This methodical philosophy is used as a structural backbone in teaching the product design process to students in industrial product design. Observations and teaching experience concluded that these students need a METHOD to manage their creative processes, INSPIRATION in the form of tools and techniques to reach to the breakthrough ideas and make them more tangible one step at a time, and a PERSONAL APPROACH to tackle any specific situation and to deal with many different design briefs

Creativiteit aansturen, hoe moet dat dan?

Een creatieve economie creëert kansen voor wie op innovatief vlak een rol wil blijven spelen. Howest, de Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, is zich daar meer dn wie ook van bewust en levert dankzij haar creatief-technische opleidingen hoogwaardige technische artiesten af aan de markt. Creativiteit is als topprioriteit ingeschreven in de strategische doelstellingen van de hogeschool. Het expertisedomein krijgt vorm via onderzoeksprojecten en uitwisselingen met de industrie. Eén van de ontwikkelingen van Howest is INNOWIZ, een open source toolbox met creativiteitstechnieken op het internet. Uw ideeën stonden nog nooit zo dicht bij een realisatie

Voters care about government formation even when the landscape is fragmented and coalition signals are ambiguous or absent

Advocates of proportional representation often claim that a reformed electoral system would eliminate the need for tactical voting, along the lines we are currently seeing the UK general election. Drawing on evidence from Belgium, Tom Verthé, Stefanie Beyens, Fernanda Flacco, Louise Nikolic, argue that voters do care about government and coalition formation even when the political and electoral landscape is fragmented, and coalition signals are ambiguous or even absent

Tracing the electorate of the MoVimento Cinque Stelle:: an ecological inference analysis

The 2013 Italian parliamentary election was characterized by the outstanding performance of the MoVimento Cinque Stelle, which in its first participation in a general election obtained a remarkable 25% of the national vote. Where did these votes come from? Furthermore, is it possible to observe different electoral dynamics across geographical areas of Italy? In order to address these questions, we first estimate the flow of votes between the 2008 and 2013 general elections by applying an ecological inference method-the Goodman model to the entire Italian voting population, and then we take a closer look at the differences in the four geopolitical areas in which Italy is traditionally divided. We find that the extraordinary performance of the MoVimento 5 Stelle was largely due to its capacity of attracting similar amounts of former Partito Democratico and Popolo della Liberta supporters, as well as a considerable amount of voters from their traditional allies: Lega Nord and Italia dei Valori. The MoVimento 5 Stelle was also able to mobilize previous non-voters. We shed light on the territorial features of these dynamics

Split Offer and Homogeneous Response in Belgium. The Conceptual and Empirical Limitations of (De)Nationalization

By examining the Belgian case, this article aims to show that methodological nationalism is strongly present in the literature on nationalization of party offer and voting behaviour. In nationalization studies, Belgium is often presented as a typical example of a denationalized country. This is true for the party offer, as it is de facto split between the two language groups since the 1980s, and therefore also voter response at the national level. However, voter response within each separate subnational party system is very homogeneous and shows interesting differences between these party systems that inform us about important electoral dynamics. We argue, on the basis of our results, that rather than stretching the concept of nationalization, it is preferable and justified to treat the concepts of nationalization of the party offer and homogenization of voter response as analytically distinct and not as two sides of the same coin