IDE student develops new design method for betere repairability

With his research and design project at Philips, Integrated Product Design master’s student Francesco de Fazio graduated with a 10 (cum laude), on Friday 30 August. With the guidance of his graduation mentors, Conny Bakker and Bas Flipsen, Francesco developed a method to redesign vacuum cleaners to make them more repairable and better able to fit circular economy strategies.

Francesco has made a great contribution to the Design for Sustainability research group which focuses on circular economy strategies and the changes it entails for product architecture design. You can find the results of his work ‘Enhancing Consumer Product Repairability’ in the TU Delft Repository.