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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?

Last Thursday, a delegation from Nigeria visited the NWO INSPiRED project at IDE. Representatives, which included members of the Nigerian government were updated on the progress of the digital diagnostics device for Neglected Tropical Diseases being developed at IDE & 3ME. Project lead J.C. Diehl and PhD Prosper Oyibo offered a demonstration of the Schistoscope. The device was tested and evaluate last summer in Nigeria. The results have since been published in two scientific publications.

We are sad to announce that the Delft Academic Shop (DA-SH) will be closing its doors as of 31 December. In the coming weeks it will still be business as usual, besides some limitations on reordering items. Orders for out-of-stock items and gift certificates can be placed until 2 December. After that, only cash payment or payment by pin-credit card will be possible.

Falls become increasingly common as we get older. They can be devastating for older people from a psychological and physical perspective, resulting in loss of confidence, loss of independence, pain, injury, depression and even death.

We have a fun one for you this time. Recently, our colleague Eric Gu hosted three Delft Design researchers in a conversation on design and AI. Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Luce Lupetti and Kars Alfrink talked about the needs and challenges of designing AI. About the role of the designer in its development and how the design practice itself can change through the relationship with AI.

AI is turning static products into dynamic ones that change while we use them. This requires new design methodologies. The European network and PhD programme DCODE, coordinated from the TU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, is all about rethinking the future of design in a world full of AI.

A TU Delft Master’s project tries to make large-scale reef restoration possible with a pilot project to re-establish oysters in the North Sea.

Last week, fifteen organisations, including IDE (represented by our Design for Sustainability and Circular Product Design sections), celebrated the launch of CIRCONNECT – an online knowledge platform for circular design. The platform will act as a central location where knowledge and experience in the field of circular design is shared and developed together. The website already contains nearly 100 knowledge contributions from the CIRCONNECT partners. The contact person for this project is IDE’s Bas Flipsen.

Dutch Design Week (DDW): it’s one of the highlights of the European design calendar and an event in which IDE design research plays a prominent role together with 4TU.Design United. This year, DDW runs from 22-30 October and as is tradition, you can expect a stellar programme from Design United featuring researchers and projects from IDE and TU Delft. Keep your eyes peeled for the next newsletter, where we'll cover what else you can expect from Dutch Design Week.