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Everyone brings their own values to the table when it comes to collaborative design. For junior designers, this may lead to frustration, conflict and stress when their values are compromised, ignored, or oppose other people’s values. Driven by her personal experience, Lenny van Onselen’s PhD research explored how junior designers can cope more effectively with value-based conflicts in collaborative design practice and she developed tools to support their professional development.

The TU Delft | Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) has opened the doors of its state-of-the-art Biodesign Lab. In a world which needs to reduce its reliance on materials derived from fossil fuels, researchers will explore the design potential of living organisms. The carefully controlled environment of this clean biosafety Level (BSL) 1 Lab offers a space to investigate the unique design potentials of microorganisms, such as algae, bacteria, and fungi.

IDE researchers have just launched one of the most comprehensive emotion resources in the world. The emotion typology is an open-access online database that provides detailed information on positive and negative emotions.

TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering Associate Professor, Elif Özcan Vieira, is on a mission to make space audible and show the important role sound design can play when exploring the Universe. Her work, which is part of a larger collaboration called the Audio Universe project, aims to make astronomy more immersive and inclusive for everyone – from astrophysicist to designers to students.

IDE alumni-founded companies SenseGlove and Pieter Pot take 1st and 3rd place in the 2022 KVK Innovatie Top 100.

On 9 November 2022, TU Delft and Stanford hosted the “City & Mobility Research Roundtable” at Pulse. The aim of the event was to provide a platform to discuss future research collaboration opportunities in the domain of mobility, smart city, sustainability, human urban interaction, design thinking, and entrepreneurship.

The Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) will join the Delft High Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) and the Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering from January 2023.

At this year’s HEMA Design Contest, IPD master’s student Aldo van Zee took home the jury award for his ‘DUO-fles’ project.

Digital platforms have become an integral part of our lives. However, as we know, they also have a dark side. But what can we do about it? Aniek Kempeneers dove into this question, earning her a cum laude in a double master’s and the title of IDE’s Best Graduate of 2022.

All athletes, from amateurs joggers to elite footballers, experience sports injuries. What if medical professionals could predict when those injuries were going to occur and stop the damaging activity before the injury happens? In her PhD research, Annemarijn Steijlen takes a step in that direction.

Building a better society is no solo endeavour. It needs people to join forces and tackle problems together. But this can only happen if there is a foundation of trust and understanding. In an increasingly polarised world, a group of Dutch designers asked whether it possible to create this strong foundation? Can we design for empathy?

Last Thursday, a delegation from Nigeria visited the NWO INSPiRED project at IDE. Representatives, which included members of the Nigerian government were updated on the progress of the digital diagnostics device for Neglected Tropical Diseases being developed at IDE & 3ME. Project lead J.C. Diehl and PhD Prosper Oyibo offered a demonstration of the Schistoscope. The device was tested and evaluate last summer in Nigeria. The results have since been published in two scientific publications.

We are sad to announce that the Delft Academic Shop (DA-SH) will be closing its doors as of 31 December. In the coming weeks it will still be business as usual, besides some limitations on reordering items. Orders for out-of-stock items and gift certificates can be placed until 2 December. After that, only cash payment or payment by pin-credit card will be possible.

Falls become increasingly common as we get older. They can be devastating for older people from a psychological and physical perspective, resulting in loss of confidence, loss of independence, pain, injury, depression and even death.

We have a fun one for you this time. Recently, our colleague Eric Gu hosted three Delft Design researchers in a conversation on design and AI. Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Luce Lupetti and Kars Alfrink talked about the needs and challenges of designing AI. About the role of the designer in its development and how the design practice itself can change through the relationship with AI.

AI is turning static products into dynamic ones that change while we use them. This requires new design methodologies. The European network and PhD programme DCODE, coordinated from the TU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, is all about rethinking the future of design in a world full of AI.

A TU Delft Master’s project tries to make large-scale reef restoration possible with a pilot project to re-establish oysters in the North Sea.

Last week, fifteen organisations, including IDE (represented by our Design for Sustainability and Circular Product Design sections), celebrated the launch of CIRCONNECT – an online knowledge platform for circular design. The platform will act as a central location where knowledge and experience in the field of circular design is shared and developed together. The website already contains nearly 100 knowledge contributions from the CIRCONNECT partners. The contact person for this project is IDE’s Bas Flipsen.

Dutch Design Week (DDW): it’s one of the highlights of the European design calendar and an event in which IDE design research plays a prominent role together with 4TU.Design United. This year, DDW runs from 22-30 October and as is tradition, you can expect a stellar programme from Design United featuring researchers and projects from IDE and TU Delft. Keep your eyes peeled for the next newsletter, where we'll cover what else you can expect from Dutch Design Week.

Just before the 2022/2023 academic year began, TU Delft hosted the Soft Robotics Summer School for PhD students. The two-week course, which ran from 22 August to 2 September, featured a riveting schedule, which included talks by IDE researchers Jun Wu, Zjenja Doubrovski, Sepideh Ghodrat, Jiwei Zhou, and Guoxin Gang; and two workshops in IDE’s Applied Labs.

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.

Did you get a chance to attend the 2022 Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) in Amsterdam? If not, don’t worry. We’re here to tell you all about it. The conference took place from 24 – 27 August in and around Amsterdam’s Oudemanhuispoort. Its aim was to bring together artists and scientists who shared an interest in the visual aspects of art. The result? 130 scientists and artists from 20 countries gathered for a four-day event. The conference was co-organised by members of IDE’s Perceptual Intelligence Lab (Maarten Wijntjes, Jeroen Stumpel, Catelijne van Middelkoop, Cehao Yu, and Yuguang Zhao) and the University of Amsterdam’s Art History department.

At this year’s Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs), the TU Delft Risk Management Summer Course took home the Benelux OSPAs’ Outstanding Security Training Initiative award. This year’s edition of the course was organised by IDE’s Sicco Santema, alongside IDE alumna Rinske Geerlings and TU Delft strategic risk advisor Regina Edoo. Of all the nominees in this category, Santema’s group was the only one to be nominated by the participants.

IPD master’s exchange student Konstantin Wolf took home the 2022 James Dyson Award (the Netherlands) with his invention BREATHE. Konstantin, who was on exchange from Muthesius University Kiel, spent six months at IDE. During which, he was able to bring his award-winning invention to the prototype phase. BREATHE was developed as a passive and sustainable ventilation solution to improve indoor air quality in small living spaces and to meet the needs of the growing Tiny House community.

IDE graduate student Anne Arzberger was chosen to be a part of the ASME’s Design Engineering Division’s (DED) Broadening Participation (B-Part) Fellowship and Mentorship Program. As part of the fellowship, Anne received a travel scholarship that covered her costs to go to the ASME IDETC-CIE Conference (St. Louis) and gave her the opportunity to present a research proposal at a poster session for early-career graduate students.

From an early career in experimental psychology to Professor of Informational Ergonomics at TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Professor Huib de Ridder has learned that there are a lot of ways to look at things. But one point has always remained central: it all begins with the human.