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LandShapes: made to feel real
Master’s student in industrial design Frederik Ueberschär used artificial intelligence to create non-existent satellite images of the…
Who shapes a child’s world? Co-design with kids
PhD candidate Lodewijk de Vet stood in the mud for weeks, in order to learn about organisms in the seabed and to take measurements. He wants…
Unmasking the Mask
Everything that is designed influences our cultures and societies. Likewise, cultures and societies, with their respective belief systems…
Persuasive technology for health and wellbeing at work
Elsbeth de Korte isn’t your typical Ph.D. student. When she defends her thesis later this month, on how technology can improve health and…
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…
How sustainable are smart devices?
You might think that smart devices – something that can connect to the internet or another device – would be more sustainable. After all, if…
The unique train toilet challenge
The toilet touches all our lives, but we don’t want to touch the toilet. In other words, we try to keep a distance from toilets,…
A robot with a soft touch
Try and picture a robotic hand and an image of metal fingers with rigid joints might come to mind. Imagine instead one made of soft…
How to paint convincing stuff
If you see a bunch of grapes, how does your brain understand that those are real grapes and not ones made of plastic? And if you see those…
Resonance between brain and mind for better design
Caiseal Beardow, master’s student at TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design, built an audio-visual installation that explores how brain and…