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On 11 May, ID Education hosted the 2022 Pluim Awards at the ID Kafee. The annual event was a success with beautiful weather, fantastic company, and plenty of awards given out. Speaking of awards, this year was unique. Instead of having three nominees and one winner per category, ID Education chose to spotlight all the nominees as winners.

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.

Vanaf 30 mei wordt het duurzame, interfacultair onderwijsgebouw Echo in gebruik genomen door docenten en studenten. Vanaf het nieuwe collegejaar zullen alle zalen ingeroosterd worden en is de horeca volledig in bedrijf.

Mobility is usually thought of as cars, bridges and container ships. But a group of TU Delft designers aim to lay bare the complex role of mobility in shaping our society. On June 21st a unique public event will put the underlying role of mobility centre stage. Project co-founder and creative director, Professor Matthijs van Dijk: “From the movement of assets and materials to the flow of people and ideas, by examining a broader perspective of mobility, our aim is to better understand how to design for society.”

Caspar Chorus appointed Dean of Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE).

Op 9 juni staat het Bouwcampus-terrein van de TU Delft in het teken van de energietransitie. Tijdens dit grote event voor de hele TU Delft community laten studenten hun ideeën voor de toekomst van de energietransitie zien. Bijna alle studenten besteden dit jaar in het onderwijs aandacht aan de overgang naar een maatschappij waar de energievoorziening duurzamer is. Een groot aantal ideeën en prototypes is op deze dag te zien tijdens het Energy Challenge Event dat plaatsvindt in het kader van het lustrum van de TU Delft.

IDE has launched four new MOOC programmes centred around circularity on edX. The programmes include Sustainable Engineering Design,Sustainable Packaging, Sustainable Packaging, and Sustainable Design of Electronics. The team hopes that with the launch of these new programmes, people will gain a greater and more specialised knowledge on a range of topics related to sustainability and circularity.

IDE Assistant Professor Nazli Cila has received an honourable mention for her single-authored paper, ‘Designing Human-Agent Collaborations: Commitment, responsiveness, and support’, from the 2022 CHI papers committee. For this year conference, the CHI papers committee received 2,579 complete submissions. Of those 2,579, the committee accepted 638 papers following the revision and resubmission process. Of those accepted, a mere 5% of submissions received an honourable mention.

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.

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.

To kick off this year’s Open Education Week, We Like Sharing organised a photo competition around the theme ‘IMAGining Energy transition’. The competition was open to staff, students, and alumni. All of the images submitted were then added to the We Like Sharing image bank, meaning they can be used by staff and students under a Creative Commons License. To find out the story behind IDE’s José Hekkens’ winning photo (as seen above), the We Like Sharing platform, and how you could win a mystery prize click here.

What if planning a trip feels just like when buying a tailor-made suit in a specialist store? Where you feel welcome, valued and unique. Where an expert listens to your wishes and then provides tailor-made advice that matches your personal style and preferences, but can also give you surprising suggestions that you would not have thought of so easily by yourself.

The TU Delft | Delft Global Student Club (DGSC) celebrated its official kicked off on 8 March. The event featured Prof. dr. Rob F. Mudde as the opening speaker, followed by presentations from TU Delft researchers and students – including IDE researcher Karl Heinz Tondo Samenjo, IDE alumnus Jerry de Vos, and 3MEE/IDE researcher Prosper Oyibo.

On 8 March, Professor Conny Bakker took part in the Work Programme Monitoring and Steering Circular Economy webinar organised by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). She presented on the findings of her report, ‘Product Design in a Circular Economy’.

Ten of the fifty Het Financieele Dagblad Talents 2022 have ties to Delft and of those ten, three studied at IDE. With their innovative and distinctive ideas, they are helping the world move forward and making us take a closer look at our waste streams. A big congratulations goes out to Jerry de Vos, Susanna Osinga, and Simon van der Jagt.

If you tuned in to the winter Olympics, you may have seen skeleton racer Kimberley Bos speed down the track to win a bronze medal. It was a momentous occasion for the Netherlands and TU Delft, whose researchers (including IDE researchers Toon Huysmans and Laura Ahsmann) played a role in optimising her equipment.

On 7 February, the new Minister of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW), Robbert Dijkgraaf, visited Rotterdam to talk to students, lecturers, researchers, and administrators about equal opportunities, care, education, and the challenges large cities face. During his visit, he spoke with IDE Associate Professor Jan Carel Diehl (Green Intensive Care Unit) and Professor Maaike Kleinsmann (Healthy Start Initiative) to learn more about their respective projects.

How will we consume food in the future? How will our food system meet the rising food demand while mitigating the negative consequences of food production and consumption? These questions drove the Food Waste: From Excess to Enough (FETE) research team to envision a new food system.

An IDE graduation project can be a challenge; however, a good support system can make all the difference. If you are an IDE student interested in building a community that will support you through the graduation process, then consider joining IDE’s Graduation Community Program.

While we have certainly learned just how much can be achieved virtually, the ability to translate an idea into a tangible prototype remains an important design competency. Thus, we were happy to hear that the students from the Advanced Prototyping minor were able to host a small exhibit to display their projects last Thursday. The ten-week project focused on digital fabrication and/or smart textiles.

Well informed patients lead to better shared decision-making in value-driven care, but what happens when the patients are children with brain-related disorders? Researchers from the Delft Design Labs’ Play Well Lab (led by Assistant Professor Mathieu Gielen) and Erasmus MC’s Child Brain Centre wanted to know. You can read the paper on their findings in the journal, Health Expectations.

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.

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.

This semester 29 multidisciplinary TU Delft bachelor students took part in the IDE’s Interactive Environments minor. During which they had the opportunity to collaborate with the National Library of the Netherlands and create prototypes for a living library. You can view the students’ prototypes via Zoom on 28 January from 9:30 – 12:30. More information about the course, collaboration, and event can be found in the article.

Together with colleagues and students from the Delft Institute of Positive Design, Professor Pieter Desmet explores how designers can make positive contributions to the well-being of individuals and communities. As part of his recurring column in the (Dutch) Journal of Positive Psychology, Pieter spotlights inspiring well-being driven products created by industrial design students. In his most recent column, he looks at a design by DfI student Gijs Spierings.