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DESIGNED TO BE GREEN (and TECHNOLOGICAL SIMPLICITY)

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^{“You are so right we don’t need more heavy and extensive technology for excellent higher education, we need excellent technique and pedagogy, resilience. The advice and training [by StudioBlended] was a gift from heaven. I want you to train our entire team of professors!”}

prof. dr. Patricia Samora
Senior lecturer and researcher
Pontificia Universidade Catholica de Campinas
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
Greater Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area
Brazil

^{'Don't ask what the technology can do for you, rather what the pedagogy needs.’}
Gilly Salmon, Professor of e-Learning and Learning Technologies, University of Leicest


^{“It’s not hidden, it’s just not talked about enough. But what people don’t realise is when someone sends a farewell email to 200 people, and someone hits ‘reply all’, you’re creating traffic. The more you increase your traffic, the more bandwidth you need, storage needs to be increased, computers need bigger disks, and so on. It all adds up.”}
Lorena Moreira Saenz, Palladium Director of ICT

^{‘We were told that the internet would dematerialize society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a massive infrastructure and a rapidly growing energy consumer. [...] The internet isn’t an autonomous being. Its growing energy use results from decisions made by software developers, web designers, marketeers, publishers, and internet users.’}  Kris De Decker & Marie Otsuka, How to build a low-tech internet. 2023

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If you’d like to know more, reach out to Tikvah on tikvah@studioblended.com or +31 6 42 47 29 69

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SYNOPSIS

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© Copyright Tikvah Breimer, STUDIOBLENDED

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
See Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)

KEYWORDS
Higher Education, Constructive Alignment, Modular, Technical, Educational Design.

LICENCE
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

HOW TO CITE
Breimer, T. (2026) Green. STUDIOBLENDED. Available: LINK (follows)

Have a read what De VormForensen [Dutch] writes [translated by us]:

<sup>‘Even just reading these very lines, your personal CO2 emission is around 24 grams. With every new online search, 0,2 grams and with every email you send - between 4 and 50 grams, depending on the number of recipients and attachments.

So much is still untransparent and unclear when it comes to our digital footprint. How can you make green digital choices?

Our digital behaviour has an enormous footprint. Every click is connected to CO2 emission. All our online activities put together, cause an emission that is larger than the global aviation (GeSI 2019). An average annual internet user’s emission, is the equivalent of driving 1400 km (Hulst 2021). These are figures from before the COVID global lockdowns, times in which we started to video call, work from home and streaming films en masse.

Everything we do online is stored in enormous data storage centres, which are cooled to temper the enormos amouth of heat that comes off these servers. To illustrate: the use of electricity of all the datacentres in The Netherlands is more than that of the national railway.’

Practice what you preach!‘</sup>

OUR FINITE SET OF DESIGN ANGLES
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Technical resilience
Guiding question
Big ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Green
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended
Bichronous

REFERENCES
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Connections by Finsa (2021) Low-tech: sustainability on the internet. No date.

Cruz, L. (2024) ‘De efficientie van AI wordt afbetaald met grote ecologische voetdruk’, RED Pers, Available: https://redpers.nl/2024/02/05/ai-expert-luis-cruz-de-efficientie-van-ai-wordt-afbetaald-met-grote-ecologische-voetafdruk/ (Accessed: March 15, 2025).

Decker, de K. (2015) ‘How to build a low-tech internet’. Low Tech magazine. For book publication (2023) see here and here

Martins, L. and Amorim, F. (2025). ‘Draining cities. the giant tech companies queueing up to build data centres in drought hit Latin America’ The Guardian, 22 May Available: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/22/datacentre-drought-chinese-social-media-supercomputers-brazil-latin-america (Accessed: 27 October 2025).

Mahan, J. (no date) ‘Data Center energy consumption’ C&C Technology Group. Available: https://cc-techgroup.com/data-center-energy-consumption/ (Accessed: October 27, 2025)

Palladium Group (2021), ‘The hidden carbon costs of technology’. Available: https://thepalladiumgroup.com/news/The-Hidden-Carbon-Costs-of-Technology (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Smart water magazine (2022). ‘How much water do data centres use’. Available: https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/h2o-building-services/how-much-water-do-data-centres-use (Accessed: October 27, 2025).


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