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Book cover of design guide 'Circular Composites'

Circular Composites Design Guide

As we move towards a more sustainability-focused future, it is becoming more common and more necessary for designers to implement strategies that embrace circularity. IDE researcher Jelle Joustra published a design guide for products containing composite materials in a circular economy.

Design4AI Symposium. Designing AI, now what?

Design4AI Symposium

On October 14, IDE will host the most important European event on Design for AI. This one-day symposium features keynote speakers, workshops and networking opportunities that will provide insight to those involved in AI system design and implementation and partnerships.

Professor Caspar Chorus

IDE's new dean ready for 2022/2023 academic year

We are happy to welcome our new dean, Professor Caspar Chorus, to IDE. To get to know him, keep reading.

Looking for the right study to become a designer of the future?

Welcome!

To welcome in the '22/'23 academic year, TU Delft will host an opening ceremony on 5 September. This year's theme is 'TU Delft for life'. Click here to find out more.

Opening hours

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)

Browse through our research themes:

Delft Design Stories

[Translate to English:] Richard Goossens on the podcast episode #24 cover

Out of the Blue #24: Clashing Disciplines in Healthcare - Richard Goossens

A design researcher and a doctor sit together for a coffee in a hospital café. They discuss and draw on a napkin what a joined education programme for designers and medical students could look like. What if doctors understood design for healthcare, and designers the healthcare world?

[Translate to English:] Podcast Out of the Blue - episode 25: Jack and Yuka

Out of the Blue #25 - International students of Delft Design – Yuka & Jack

It’s been a long and well-deserved summer break. Before we headed off, we had a lovely chat with two international student editors of IDE. Yuka & Jack already share their experiences as international students as student editors on the IDE website. For this bonus episode, they talk with Ianus and Producer Marc about work-life balance, what’s it like studying Delft Design and much more. Enjoy! We will be back with our final episode on design & health soon.

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Collaborations by design

Addressing the complex challenges of today and tomorrow requires many actors, perspectives and disciplines. But forming effective and mutually beneficial collaborations can be challenging. Designing with Delft aims to facilitate this process, bringing researchers and educators from the university together with innovators from organisations to identify common goals, define a shared vision and develop concrete plans for collaborations.

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From bottled water to doctor

Most people, according to PhD candidate Mirjam Visser, say they want to shop sustainably but few consumers actually purchase the most environmentally-friendly option when shopping. For her thesis research, she set out to understand why some consumers will buy green options while others won’t - and how to encourage people to make more sustainable choices.

[Translate to English:] Research Xueliang Li: Handling stress: using wearable technology to help people with PTSD

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

September

Open Days at the Green Village

R Café at TU Delft

Master Class - Design for Emotion and Happiness

eXtending Reality: Designing Future Cultural Heritage Experiences

PhD thesis defence Annemarijn Steijlen

Inauguration prof.dr.ir. L.J. de Vries (TPM) ’Past renewable electricity: the next phase of the energy transition’

October

Theatre Play: 'Danger Implicit Bias at Work!'

Diversity & Inclusion in IDE

Design Master Class - Service Design

Sustainable Teaching Workshop

Design4AI Symposium

Open Campus Days

November

International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety

International Conference on the Internet of Things 2022

EACI conference Connect2Create

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