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IDE RESEARCH PLATFORM

Organisation

Organisations are becoming more complex, with a shift from individual businesses to organisational networks.

We conduct research on the organisational networks in business, the public sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Working within these networks, we develop design approaches and theories leading to innovation strategies. We observe the behaviour of network participants, and co-create designs and strategies. Our research takes place both in existing networks, and in networks that we build and lead ourselves. The purpose of this research perspective is to support creative innovations that benefit individuals, organisations, and society as a whole.

In this rapidly changing world, we identify design practices as a key enabler in supporting organisations to understand, adapt, and renew their strategies to successfully address our uncertain future.
Maaike Kleinsmann
Professor in Design for Digital Transformation

In this rapidly changing world, we identify design practices as a key enabler in supporting organisations to understand, adapt, and renew their strategies to successfully address our uncertain future.

Maaike Kleinsmann
Professor in Design for Digital Transformation

LICHEN-BLADES

While contributing to the growth of renewable energy, wind turbines also contribute to landfill waste and emissions upon decommissioning. It is estimated that 325,000 tonnes of wind turbine blade waste will be produced annually in Europe until 2050. This unsustainable material sourcing and waste problem needs to be tackled with transdisciplinary strategies that take the end-of-life of the blades into consideration from the design stages.

TULIPS

There is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, aviation generates 14% of the EU's greenhouse gasses from transportation. Thus airports can play a major role in making aviation climate neutral. This includes addressing CO2 emissions by enabling shifts in travel modes (e.g. replacing short-haul flights by rail), using lower-emission aircrafts, and reducing the amount of material waste exiting airports.

The Operator of the Future

Many companies in the manufacturing industry are already transitioning towards a digital, smart industry paradigm, and more will do so in the near future. This transition will have a great im-pact on production processes and on the people who are part of these processes. Newly adopt-ed technologies will increase the demand for employees with the necessary knowledge and skills. The Operator of the Future project addresses this challenge and aims to contribute to a ‘smart’ collaboration between humans and technology.

Value@WORK: Value-Driven Care for Labor and Health

Our health care is increasingly moving beyond the hospital walls. To answer new demands for care, new ways of collaboration are needed between all healthcare professionals involved and the patient. In the Netherlands, there is growing attention for Value-Based Health Care (VBHC), a concept of quality of care with an emphasis on using patient experiences for learning and improvement. Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft and Amsterdam UMC work together on these care issues within the domain of Work and Health in the Value@WORK project.

Designing Rhythms for Social Resilience (DRSR)

The Designing Rhythms for Social Resilience (DRSR) project explores rhythm as a new methodology for policy-making, which aims to enhance the sharing of culture and increase the social resilience of neighbourhoods. This project investigates how people process their life experiences within cities and examines how these experiences are increasingly being documented with urban data. Through the participation of residents, civil servants and creative industries, we are able to analyse physical and digital data rhythms in Amsterdam.

ReCiPSS

How can we create circular products and services that are attractive to users? And how can we help designers develop products that are remanufacturable and fully circular? This what the EU project ReCiPSS explores by looking into the success factors for circular business models. Two large-scale pilots, one automotive and one white goods, are in development through close collaboration with Bosch and Gorenje.

Delft Design Lab

Entrepreneurship by Design

Entrepreneurial behaviour within design and innovation

Systemic Design Lab

Generating systemic change within society through design

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Sustainable design is not just about the material stuff

Sure, sustainable design can result in a trendy reusable bottle. But it’s not just about the product, it’s also about the process. Through his PhD research, Brian Baldassarre set out to understand how design expertise can be applied by business organisations in the transition towards sustainable development.

An ecosystem perspective on circularity

Making the transition towards a Circular Economy is so complex and full of interdependencies that no single company or actor can achieve it alone. In his PhD thesis, Jan Konietzko proposed that getting there will require a collective approach: business innovation using an ecosystem perspective.

Dr. ir. C.A. Bakker

Professor of Design Methodology for Sustainability and Circular Economy. Expertise: Design for sustainability, Design for circular economy, Design methodology

MSc. Bakker-Wu, S.

Lecturer
Product Innovation Management. Expertise: Branding, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Packaging design, Supply chain, Marketing, Project management

A.R. (Ruud) Balkenende

Professor of Circular Product Design. Expertise: Circular product design, Design for Sustainability, Life cycle management

MSc. Beek, E. van

PhD candidate, Service and Product Innovation. Expertise: Product Service Systems, Participatory Design, Energy Studies, Heat Pumps, Data in Innovation, Intelligent Systems, Organisational Design, Buildings.

Dr. R. (Roy) Bendor

Roy Bendor is an Associate Professor Industrial Design Professor of Critical Design Conceptualization and Communicationat TU Delft. Expertise: design futures, sustainability, philosophy of technology, civic media, critical theory, climate adaptation, speculative design

Ir. G.H. (Gert Hans) Berghuis

Lecturer and coach
Product Innovation Management. Expertise: Innovation, Lean Start-Up, Branding, Product introductions, Service Design, Innovation strategy, Operating models for Innovation.

Ir. R.G.H. Bluemink

Lecturer
Section Management and Organisation. Expertise: Innovation Management, Design Strategy, Design Engineering, Project Risk Management, Lean Project Planning

MSc. Bodell, K.F.

Fredrik Bodell is a PhD candidate. | Expertise: Eploring ow design practices can improve how digital health solutions are implemented into clinical practice

Ir. A.G.C. (Annemiek) van Boeijen

Assistant Professor
Industrial Design/Design Aesthetics. Expertise: Culture in design, Inter- and multi-national projects, Base of the Pyramid, Design methods

Dr. dipl. -Des. Boess, S.U.

Assistant Professor
Design for Interaction. Expertise: Design thinking and doing tools, Meaning in everyday system use, Health (ageing), mobility and ict in urban environments

Dr. M. (Marina) Bos-de Vos

Assistant Professor
Design, Organisation and Strategy. Expertise: Business model design, Digital innovation, Value co-creation, Value capture, Professional identity, Project management

Ir. Brouwer, W.

Lecturer, Product Innovation Management, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Expertise: Creativity, Facilitation

MSc. Buijs, M.J.J.

Lecturer. Expertise: Entrepreneurship by design.

Giulia Calabretta

Associate Professor of Product Innovation Management. | Expertise: Design management, Integrating design skills and methods in companies, Designers in innovation strategy and early development

Dr. Cankurtaran, P.

Assistant professor
Product Innovation Management. Expertise: Marketing strategy, Service innovation, Innovation speed, Meta-analysis

Sine Celik

Assistant Professor of Network-driven Systemic Change. | Expertise: Design for systemic change, Social dynamics, Network analysis.

Dr. Champlin, C. J.

Carissa Champlin is an Assistant Professor of Participatory Design in the Department of Human-Centered Design at TU Delft.

Jeroen Coelen

Lecturer of Product Innovation Management. | Expertise: Startups, Entrepreneurship, Lean experimentation, Business modeling

Dr. ir. Daalhuizen, J.J.

Associate Professor (UHD)

Jan-Carel Diehl

Full Professor (HGL) of Design for Sustainability. | Expertise: Design for Sustainability, Design for the Base of the Pyramid, Design for Cultural Differences

Rene van Egmond

Associate Professor. | Expertise: Informational Ergonomics, Product Sound Design & Perception, Interaction Design, Research Methodologies, Data Analysis & Visualization

Jo van Engelen

Professor of Integrated Sustainable Solutions. | Expertise: Business and organisation development, Integrated sustainable solutions, Design for sustainability

MSc. Gomez-Beldarrain, G.

Milene Guerreiro Goncalves

Associate Professor of Product Innovation Management. | Expertise: Creativity, Creative problem solving, Inspiration, Design Cognition, Design methodology, Design thinking, Visual communication

Hannah Goss

PhD candidate, Designing for Food Waste Reduction. | Expertise: Social Design, Transition Design, Food Waste, Design for Behaviour Change.

Elmer van Grondelle

Lecturer. | Expertise: Automotive Design (Styling), Strategy Design, Design processes, Design methods, Future human mobility.

PhD. Hajiamiri, M.

Ellis van den Hende

Assistant professor of Product Innovation Management. | Expertise: Storytelling, Sustainable consumer behavior, Acceptance of radical innovations

Julian Houwen

Julian Houwen is a PhD Candidate at TU Delft (IDE) and LUMC (Cardiology). | Expertise: Scaling Digital Health Innovation, Remote Patient & Family Management, Strategic Design

Prof. dr. Hultink, H.J.

Professor of New Product Marketing, Head of Product Innovation Management Department. Expertise: Launch strategies, New product performance, Time to market strategies for new industrial products, IT usage, New product effectiveness, Organizing for new product development

Sterre Lidwine de Jager

Sterre de Jager is a PhD Candidate at IDE TU Delft in the Design, Organisation and Strategy department. Her research interests include value-based project management, design for societal transformation, and joint value creation across various domains (e.g. urban environment, circularity, and fashion).

Tomasz Jaśkiewicz

Assistant Professor of Industrial Design. Expertise: Design methodology, Highly iterative design processes, Design Tornado model, Interactive Prototyping, Smart buildings, Smart cities

Eva Kalmar

Eva Kalmar is an assistant professor in Communication Design for Innovation at TU Delft. She is investigating the dynamics of transdisciplinary collaborations in the context of mission-driven innovation and technology development.

Ir. Kernan Freire, S.

PhD candidate. Expertise: Smart Manufacturing, AI & Design, Digital Intelligent Assistants.

Eui Young Kim

Assistant Professor, Product Innovation Management, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Expertise: Future Mobility, User-Centered Design Roadmapping, Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking, New Product Development, Management of Technology, Design for Cybersecurity (DfC)

Maaike Kleinsmann

Professor in Design for Digital Transformation.
Expertise: Digital Transformation, Strategic Design, Design Methodology, Co-creation, Healthcare, Smart Technologies

Gerd Kortuem

Professor of Internet of Things. Expertise: Internet of Things, Intelligent Systems, Data-Centric Design, Smart Cities

Ir. LaRoche, J.

Dr. Lomas, J.D.

Assistant Professor of Positive AI.

Ir. Man, W.Y.

Program Coordinator Artificial Intelligence

Drs. Mazerant, E.B.

Emile Mazerant

Emile Mazerant is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Areas of expertise: Socio-interactive perspective on design and innovation, social dynamics in reframing processes, absorptive capacity of organizations, and more.

MArch, Mehrvarz, M.

Marijke Melles

Associate Professor Applied Ergonomics & Design
Coordinator Master specialisation Medisign. Expertise: Medisign, Design for healthcare, Design for experience, Patient and staff experience

Xueqing Miao

Xueqing Miao is a PhD candidate at TU Delft. Expertise: Reusable packaging, Sustainable consumer behaviour, Circular Economy, Sustainable Society

Middelkoop, C. van (MFA)

Professor of Visual Communication Design. Expertise: Design Education, Visual Communication Design, Communication Design

Johan Molenbroek

Associate Professor
Applied Ergonomics. Expertise: Anthropometrics, Inclusive design, Ergonomics, Human factors, Product safety, 3D scanning, Digital Human Modeling (DHM), Usability

Ruth Mugge

Ruth Mugge is a Full Professor in Design for Sustainable Consumer Behaviour at IDE | Expertise: product longevity, repair practices and adoption of circular alternatives

Ingrid Mulder

Associate Professor of Design for Social Transformations. Expertise: Transformative design, Social design, Design methodology, Design for change, Design for transition.

Dr. ir. Ozkaramanli, D.

Assistant Professor (UD)

Valeria Pannunzio

PhD candidate
Industrial Design. Expertise: Design for Healthcare, Data-driven design methods

Ingrid de Pauw

Lecturer
Design Engineering. Expertise: Sustainable product development, Cradle to Cradle, Biomimicry, Ecodesign, Circular Product Design

Anna Peeters

PhD candidate ‘Designing the Protein Shift’. Expertise: Transition Design, Systemic Design, Behaviour Change, Sustainability, Reframing, Design Methodology.

Sylvia Pont

Professor of Human Information Communication Design. Expertise: Lighting Design, Ecological optics, Experimental psychology, Perceptual intelligence

Rebecca Price

Assistant professor of marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Expertises: Design strategy, Innovation, Socio-technical systems, transitions, mobility.

Achilleas Psyllidis

Achilleas Psyllidis is an Assistant Professor of Location Intelligence and Spatial Analysis and Director of the Urban Analytics Lab at TU Delft. Expertise: Location Intelligence, Urban Analytics, Spatial Data Science, Geographic Information Retrieval, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Planning

M.A. Qiu, Y.

Prof. dr. Rietjens, J.A.C.

Dr. ing. Rozendaal, M.C.

Associate Professor
Human Information and Communication Design. Expertise: Interaction design, Interaction aesthetics, User experience, Product service systems, Design innovation for healthcare

Karlheinz Samenjo

Karlheinz is part of the Design for Sustainability and Circular Economy group at TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. His research focuses on product, service, and system design for resource-constrained settings in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions globally. These settings include areas with limited infrastructure, materials, supplies, and human resources, as well as a scarcity of essential, accessible, and affordable resources. This encompasses less affluent regions, areas affected by war, natural disasters, and more. Expertise: Healthy Society, Inclusive Society, Sustainable Society

Sicco Santema

Professor of Business to Business Marketing. Expertise: Marketing and Supply management, Customer and/or supplier integrated design, Lean in supply chain cooperation, Information exchange in cooperation, Aviation, Experiences of passengers, crew and luggage, Entrepreneurship

Ir. Schuffelers, R.J.G.

Lecturer, Industrial Design. Expertise: Design for social impact, Educational design, Creativity, Teamwork

Lianne Simonse

Assistant professor Front End Innovation
Product Innovation Management (PIM). Expertise: Design Roadmapping, Mixed methods research, Organization design

Froukje Sleeswijk Visser

Froukje Sleeswijk Visser is Associate Professor Service Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Expertise: service design, public service design, empathy, human centred design, research through design, social design, journey mapping

Frido Smulders

Professor Entrepreneurial Engineering by Design.
Expertise: Socio-interactive processes related to innovation and entrepreneurship: behavior related to discontinuous Innovation, Designerly, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Behaviors, Trans- and multi-disciplinary collaborative innovation, Design, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Theory, Educational innovation

Dirk Snelders

Professor of Organising Product and Service Development. Expertise: Healthcare, Eco-system collaboration in care industries, Design expertise for service development, Designing human relations in service settings, Service prototyping

Deanne Spek

Pieter Jan Stappers

Professor of Design Techniques. Expertise: Design techniques, Tools and techniques for the early phases of design, Early concept prototyping, Contextmapping

MSc. Tschavgova, E.

Turtle, G.L.

Carlo Valk

Himanshu Verma

Assistant Professor of Human-AI Collaboration. Expertise: Human-Centered AI, Empathy-Centric Design

Ir. Wesseling, A.J.B.

Haian Xue

Assistant Professor (UD), Internet of Things. | Expertise: Design for Experience and Well-being, Design Strategy, Cultural/Collective Memory