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IDE makes QS Art & Design Ranking debut in 11th place

The prestigious QS rankings for 2021 have been published; IDE comes in high in this list of leading design institutes.

IDE researchers make waves

Listen to IDE researchers Derek Lomas and Elif Ozcan Viera discuss sound design in two new podcasts.

Call for papers

The 10th annual Relating Systems Thinking & Design Symposium, due to take place this November in Delft, opens its call for papers.
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Delft Design Stories

Delft Design Doctorates

LandShapes: made to feel real

You might think that smart devices – something that can connect to the internet or another device – would be more sustainable. After all, if the lights and the thermostat only turn on when a person is present, they should use less energy. ‘But’ says Emilia Ingemarsdotter, ‘every technology has a hype phase’. For her PhD research, she wanted to look beyond the hype and critically examine the role internet-enabled devices play in the circular economy.

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 mind respond to subtle changes in a landscape of light and sound that test subjects experience in her installation.

"Humans don't develop like machines."

When Stefan Persaud took over the second-year bachelor’s course Product Dynamics at Industrial Design, he brought along his motto: "If you can't reach them, you can't teach them." Persaud believes in student-centred teaching, where lecturers focus on how students best learn and engage students in active learning.

Delft Design Doctorates

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 lights and the thermostat only turn on when a person is present, they should use less energy. ‘But’ says Emilia Ingemarsdotter, ‘every technology has a hype phase’. For her PhD research, she wanted to look beyond the hype and critically examine the role internet-enabled devices play in the circular economy.

Delft Design Doctorates

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.

Delft Design Doctorates

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.

Delft Design Doctorates

Grab a pencil and paper

What do you need as an industrial designer? What are your main tools? Pencil and paper, says Nik Shahman. He researched the usefulness of sketching in a design team and obtained his PhD on 22 December with his research.

Delft Design Doctorates

Designing to inspire more sustainable consumers

Shifting towards the Circular Economy is not just about sustainable products, it’s also about sustainable behaviour. So how can design influence people to take better care of the products they use? PhD graduate Laura Ackermann says for designers, considering the consumer perspective is the key.

Delft Design Doctorates

Collaborate to save the planet

Taking on the global environmental sustainability crisis will require new ways of thinking when it comes to the way that products and services are produced and consumed. In the context of the circular economy, Phil Brown’s PhD research explores how companies, through collaborative circular oriented innovation, can become part of the solution.

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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

Four new PhD positions at the new Design@Scale Lab TU Delft

Combine human and artificial intelligence. Application is open until 4 April 2021.

April

20

Food Talk #29 with Rick Schifferstein
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Webinar "Unraveling Quantum Technology: What now?"
22

Thesis Defence Elsbeth de Korte
23

Thesis Defence Marian Loth
26

Thesis Defence Rob Scharff
26

Meet the Energy Leaders: Professor Franklin Orr

May

19
Online Course

Circular Product Design Assessment
26
Online Course

Design Leadership and Innovation

November

03
06

Playing with Tensions: the RSD10 Symposium