Two NWO KIEM grants for Industrial Design Engineering
Researchers of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft) recently obtained two KIEM grants.
Rebecca Price, Jeroen van Erp en Maaike Kleinsmann received a research grant of € 18,000, together with the Netherlands Red Cross, for the Initiating a multi-party collaboration for adaption and resilience to urban heatwaves project.
Rebecca Price: “This project starts in December 2019. Urban heatwaves are extreme weather events that cause significant rises in mortality rates. While hurricanes and earthquakes show lasting damage, urban heatwaves pass by with no visible damage to observable infrastructure. And so little action has been taken thus far. Yet urban heatwaves effect the most vulnerable; the young, old and those with pre-existing health concerns. Currently our students within the Strategic Product Design Master are already kicking off our collaboration with the Netherlands and International Red Cross by designing ways to mitigate the extreme effects of urban heatwaves.”
Next to this, Marina Bos-de Vos received a KIEM grant of € 15,000 from NWO for her Value co-creation in circular design processes project, together with Ellen Loots of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hub Holland BV, Het Nieuwe Instituut Foundation and CIRCO.
Marina Bos-de Vos: “More and more companies are ‘going circular’ and are able to develop sustainable business models. But we currently don’t know enough about the nature and challenges of the underlying processes, and about the changing roles of all the involved partners. The Value co-creation in circular design processes project will start on 6 January 2020 and will run for one year. It researches how circularity influences the processes of co-creation and adoption. How it redefines the different partner roles, with a special focus on the designer.
Price, R.A.
Erp, J. van
Maaike Kleinsmann
- +31 (0)15 27 88657
- m.s.kleinsmann@tudelft.nl
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Room B-4-210
