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Discover Delft Design

Discover what Delft Design entails by navigating through projects and research that help society tackle today's and tomorrow's challenges.

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Mobility|Society Live explores different dimensions of mobility, and examines global flows of people, ideas, goods and materials.

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DCODE trains researchers and designers to guide society’s digital transformation towards inclusive, sustainable futures. DCODE Summer School offers keynotes, workshops, and networking activities that revise and extend user-centered and human-centered design.
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We are working working and studying hybrid: working and studying online and at the faculty. We recommend that students keep a close eye on Brightspace to see how this affects their courses and other educational activities. Keep an eye on this page for updates.

Monday - Thursday: 08:00 - 22:00
Friday 08:00 - 19:00
(Employees with a valid campus card from 07:00)

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Delft Design Stories

Handling stress: using wearable technology to help people with PTSD

The obvious triggers of stress are all around us: pressing deadlines at work, children not sleeping through the night, a leaking roof. But sometimes it's smaller things, certain locations or specific times of day, that increase our stress levels. Understanding those triggers using wearable technology, with a focus on people who experience a lot of stress - people with PTSD - was the topic of Xueliang Li’s PhD research.

3D printing metamaterials

Imagine wanting to construct a personalised bike saddle, but the materials at your disposal are either too stiff for some parts of the buttocks or too soft for others… Creating a product that has different parts, each with unique requirements, often requires the use of different materials. But innovations in 3D printing are changing this by making it possible to create objects with spatial gradations in surface and volumetric properties – in other words, functionally graded materials (FGMs). These engineered metamaterials go beyond the characteristics found in naturally occurring materials. For his PhD, Tim Kuipers explored how toolpath generation and a manufacturing technique called fused filament fabrication (FFF) can be used to create more complex objects with varying material properties.

Designing frameworks for smart cyber-physical systems

Algorithms are all around you. They are in your office building within computer-regulated thermostats, they help pilots land the planes you fly in, they help robots manufacture the goods you use every day. But how do designers know which process to use or what information their devices need? And how do they get the many algorithms, which control these devices, to work together? In his Ph.D. research, Sirasak Tepjit set out to create a framework to help designers with exactly that.

The creative breeding ground of Delft Design Labs

Imagine a research environment fuelled by creativity, where people from different disciplines and varying levels of expertise collaborate, seeking new insights and solutions that can change the world. That is what you’ll find in the Delft Design Labs, a theme-based research platform at the TU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) that brings researchers, students and external partners together to find innovative solutions to the complex challenges of our time.

Why doesn't it work and can it be fixed?

Everyday annoyances: the hoover that suddenly stops working, the washing machine that refuses to spin. Or, a small disaster for the at-home worker, the coffee machine that refuses to give you fuel. And yes, of course you can order a new one, but if you want to contribute to a circular economy, you might also want to see if there is anything that can be repaired. PhD researcher Beatriz Pozo Arcos studied how easily defects in household appliances can be diagnosed, and how design can help users do this.

Out of the Blue #21 – Generative Design

Maximum functions, minimum amount of materials. That needs to be part of the sustainable future of design. What technologies might be helpful for both the design and production process? We talk with Delft Design researcher Jun Wu about possible technological solutions using 3D printing for what he calls generative design: using algorithms to print the most sustainable product possible. Also in this episode: how to create more problems with your solutions, growing bridges with metal or tree vines and bicycles.

Out of the Blue #23: A Designer walks into a Hospital - Maaike Kleinsmann

How can design research improve our health, and is it better to design for prevention or for the cure? We kick off our triptych on Design & Health with Delft Design Professor Maaike Kleinsmann. Ianus and co-host Marc talk with her about working with healthcare professionals as a design researcher, what all this new remote-sensing health-tech for consumers means for personal health challenges and the issue of health data and privacy. And dealing with Strava-men in tight lycra suits.

Out of the Blue #20: Let it go, let it go

We are back with season 3 of the Delft Design podcast Out of the Blue! This season we’re going to tackle healthcare, mobility and sustainability in three episodes each. And perhaps give you some more treats along the way. Producer Marc joins Ianus as a co-host and they talk with Flora Poppelaars: sustainability consultant, circular economy expert and Delft Design PhD graduate. About stages of circularity, why smartphones are the perfect case study and heavy metal covers of infectious Disney songs.
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In the IDE Podcast Series ‘Out of the Blue’, Teacher of Practice Ianus Keller or PhD candidate Frithjof Wegener talks with our designers, researchers, students and teachers about their stories. Thankfully, we’re allowed to listen in.

A better environment from the comfort of your chair

A modular chair made of blocks in which CO2 has been stored and that can be converted into other pieces of furniture. With his special design - Unito - Riel Bessai, who recently graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design, wants, above all, to tell a story. “With my chair I am making the global CO2 problem tangible and I hope to encourage people to view our consumer society from a different perspective.”

> All Delft Design Stories

Delft Design Methods Series

Take a look at the tools, methods and perspectives that the faculty uses to design for the future.

Basic Design Cycle
Design with Data
Vision in Product Design
Design for Sustainability
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DRS Bilbao 2022
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Get ready for ‘real world’ threats - Registration Risk Management Summer Course (27 Jun - 8 Jul) now open
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Battle of the Minds Health hackathon
July
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Thesis defence Marijke Dekker
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Deadline to apply to James Dyson Award 2022
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R Café at TU Delft
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Summer School on Circularity in the Built Environment
August
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IDE Freshmen Weekend 2022
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Symposium and Valedictory Lecture Prof. Huib de Ridder
November
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International Conference on the Internet of Things 2022
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EACI conference Connect2Create
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