J. (Jeremy) Faludi

J. (Jeremy) Faludi

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Jeremy Faludi is an assistant professor of Design for Sustainability at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. His research focuses on sustainable design methods and metrics, as well as sustainable additive manufacturing.

In sustainable design methods and metrics, he created Whole System Mapping and in 2004 designed the Biomimicry Institute’s first online database (now AskNature.org). A bicycle he helped design appeared in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's 2007 exhibit "Design for the Other 90%”. He also researches and develops tools for health hazard assessment, product reparability assessment, improving LCA software user interface and data visualization, how to teach sustainable design, and co-creating methods with companies to integrate sustainable design into their standard product development practices.

In green 3D printing, Jeremy wrote the OECD’s recommendations for green 3D printing policy, and the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association's first white paper; he has published the most comprehensive life cycle assessments in the additive manufacturing industry. He also studies 3D printing for repair, and replacing high-energy print processes with ambient temperature extrusion of upcycled bio-composite pastes.

Academic Background
Originally trained as a physicist, he paid for a year of design school by helping improve the passive hydraulic vibration damping system of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory. He worked as a sustainable designer in industry for fifteen years before returning to academia. Before TU Delft, he taught green product design at Stanford, Dartmouth, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

He has contributed to six books on sustainable design, including Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. He has authored or co-authored several online courses, including VentureWell’s Tools for Design and Sustainability, Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute’s training for certification, and the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop. In 2012, he created StreetNatureScore.com, which used 11 billion datapoints of satellite imagery to provide nature scores for any address in the US. While in the green building industry, he contributed to the design and specification of ten buildings.

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Research interests

Sustainable design methods; sustainable design strategy; whole system mapping; life cycle assessment (LCA); biomimicry; repairability scores; toxicity hazard assessment; sustainable additive manufacturing (green 3D printing)

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Publications

Courses 2021

Courses 2020

Involved in Research Project(s)

PROMPT

PROMPT project developing scorecards and testing programs for product repairability and durability.

Additive manufacturing

with bio-composite pastes, to reduce print energy and eliminate plastic for a circular economy

Sharepair

on 3D printing for repair.

Meta-methods

Developing meta-methods to integrate sustainable design tools and methods into industry product development.