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The circular economy. Sustainability. Refurbishment. Remanufacturing. Recycling. We hear these buzzwords used all the time when talking about how humanity needs to lessen its impact on the planet. For her PhD research, Nina Boorsma looked into how to get companies to make more sustainable products and found that the process needs to start early.

As of this January the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) has joined the Delft High Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) and the Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. How can this ‘super (computing) power’ be used for design research, to advance visualisations, optimise 3-D printing techniques and solve societal issues and more? What effect could this have on the role of designers? What new areas of research could be addressed? And what implications could this have on ethical issues?

To wrap up the first quarter of the 2022/2023 academic year, SPD students presented design roadmaps on Trusted AI for Banking at IBM Amsterdam. They showed that design roadmapping can be a valuable method for Trusted AI development in industry.

IDE in the media (Week 10 2023)

Meat shaming may reduce meat purchases. Research by Anne-Madeleine Kranzbühler and Rick Schifferstein shows that 'meat shaming' stickers on meat packaging can have an inhibiting effect on meat purchases. Stickers that point to animal suffering, in particular, stir up feelings of shame.

Composite materials have a lot to offer in terms of fine-tuning material properties, optimising functionality, and ensuring a long-life span. Despite those advantages, they still leave a lot to be desired when it comes to reuse and recycling. For his PhD, Jelle Joustra explored strategies for making composite materials that support a circular economy, proposing that design is the missing link.

Products designed for a single life cycle have a huge impact on the environment. In the transition to a circular economy, designing products that go through multiple lives and retain their value could make a big difference. For her PhD, Theresa Wallner explored how designers can make it easier for consumers to choose refurbished products.

Each year TU Delft faculties offer a small number of scholarships with the aim of attracting the world’s brightest students. From 2023 onwards, IDE’s bursary will be known as the Ena Voûte Design Engineering Excellence Scholarship in honour of the faculty’s former dean and current Pro Vice Rector of International Affairs for TU Delft.

IDE publication highlights (Week 8 2023)

IDE in the media (Week 8 2023)

Smart objects, humans, software. We are all part of the same complex environment. It is up to designers to create meaningful experiences for people within this environment. This was the assignment for the 30 Interactive Environment Minors this year. Discover what they came up with.

The TU Delft Repository is a database full of information. Students and researchers publish their research there and you can browse around for knowledge and inspiration. But is the Repository still up to date? Is it easily searchable and can you add all relevant information? It could be better, according to Ashley Hemerik, master's student at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. She offers her proposal.

IDE in the media - week 6

Cancer patients can often find it difficult to maintain a good overview of their situation. This is why Ingeborg Griffioen, a Delft industrial designer, developed the Metro Mapping design method for patients and care providers, to enable them to reach better shared decisions about treatment. Experts in design engineering from TU Delft are now joining forces with medical professionals and researchers from Erasmus MC and the LUMC and the Panton design agency to further develop and apply Griffioen’s method in the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain.

Each year TU Delft faculties offer a small number of scholarships with the aim of attracting the world’s brightest students. From 2023 onwards, IDE’s bursary will be known as the Ena Voûte Design Engineering Excellence Scholarship in honour of the faculty’s former dean and current Pro Vice Rector of International Affairs for TU Delft.

IDE in the media - week 4

IDE publication highlights (Week 4 2023)

IDE in the media - week 2

IDE publication highlights (Week 2 2023)

IDE in the media - week 51

Everyone brings their own values to the table when it comes to collaborative design. For junior designers, this may lead to frustration, conflict and stress when their values are compromised, ignored, or oppose other people’s values. Driven by her personal experience, Lenny van Onselen’s PhD research explored how junior designers can cope more effectively with value-based conflicts in collaborative design practice and she developed tools to support their professional development.

The TU Delft | Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) has opened the doors of its state-of-the-art Biodesign Lab. In a world which needs to reduce its reliance on materials derived from fossil fuels, researchers will explore the design potential of living organisms. The carefully controlled environment of this clean biosafety Level (BSL) 1 Lab offers a space to investigate the unique design potentials of microorganisms, such as algae, bacteria, and fungi.

IDE researchers have just launched one of the most comprehensive emotion resources in the world. The emotion typology is an open-access online database that provides detailed information on positive and negative emotions.

TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering Associate Professor, Elif Özcan Vieira, is on a mission to make space audible and show the important role sound design can play when exploring the Universe. Her work, which is part of a larger collaboration called the Audio Universe project, aims to make astronomy more immersive and inclusive for everyone – from astrophysicist to designers to students.

IDE alumni-founded companies SenseGlove and Pieter Pot take 1st and 3rd place in the 2022 KVK Innovatie Top 100.

On 9 November 2022, TU Delft and Stanford hosted the “City & Mobility Research Roundtable” at Pulse. The aim of the event was to provide a platform to discuss future research collaboration opportunities in the domain of mobility, smart city, sustainability, human urban interaction, design thinking, and entrepreneurship.

The Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) will join the Delft High Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) and the Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering from January 2023.

At this year’s HEMA Design Contest, IPD master’s student Aldo van Zee took home the jury award for his ‘DUO-fles’ project.

Digital platforms have become an integral part of our lives. However, as we know, they also have a dark side. But what can we do about it? Aniek Kempeneers dove into this question, earning her a cum laude in a double master’s and the title of IDE’s Best Graduate of 2022.

All athletes, from amateurs joggers to elite footballers, experience sports injuries. What if medical professionals could predict when those injuries were going to occur and stop the damaging activity before the injury happens? In her PhD research, Annemarijn Steijlen takes a step in that direction.

Building a better society is no solo endeavour. It needs people to join forces and tackle problems together. But this can only happen if there is a foundation of trust and understanding. In an increasingly polarised world, a group of Dutch designers asked whether it possible to create this strong foundation? Can we design for empathy?