Designing a Do It Yourself Hydroponic Garden

Demographics and the increase in welfare will double the nutritional demands in the coming decades. At the same time, the amount of arable land and other resources are becoming scarce. The question of how to feed the future world population is becoming more urgent. Hydroponics, a method of growing plants without soil, could be one of the answers...

Creating drinking water awareness at Into the Great Wide Open

This master thesis is focused on delivering a new drinking water experience, with the aim of creating pro-environmental awareness at Into the Great Wide Open (ITGWO), a music festival based in Vlieland. Water is essential for life, and there are many problems related to it that have to be solved in order to ensure drinking water to the future...

Sustainable BATA footwear

BATA has a heritage of being a responsible company since its founding, but has not yet institutionalized and measured their social and environmental accomplishments. This study starts measuring the environmental impact of 4 current BATA shoes by means of life cycle calculations. Thereafter, the effects of different communication strategies are...

Strategic and Sustainable Brand & Product Innovation for Ly Ly Food

This project is an initiative of SPIN: Sustainable Product Innovation in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The aim of this project is to improve the competitiveness and sustainability efforts of Ly Ly Food, a middle-sized company with 200 employees based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This company produces packaged snacks for the low end children's market...

Creating a sustainable brand and product strategy for Cau Tre, Saigon (Vietnam)

This MSc. thesis is about the creation of a sustainable brand and product strategy for Vietnamese food and tea processing company, Cau Tre. During an audit of 3 months internally, the author has analyzed the company structure, its NPD processes, mission and vision, long term goals and external brand context. This resulted in the creation of an...

Natura: Making the toilet more water efficient

The present project is about making the toilet more water efficient. Standard toilets use 15 times more drinking water per day than a human does. The proposed concept is a toilet based on the waste separation principle. Considering that each type of human waste requires different amount of water to be flushed away, the new toilet adapts to male...

Sustainability, Behavior, & Design: Gentle Guidelines for Future Mobile CE

This graduation project is one of two from Delft University of Technology that were initiated with the User Experience (UX) Research Group at Samsung Electronics to address the role of consumer electronics (CE) in more sustainable consumption and behavior for young professionals. This project started with a strong position on how to approach...

Paper choice - the starting point for sustainable printing: Design of an Eco Paper Wizard for Dutch printshops

This graduation thesis, written at Oce, analyses the main problems in the Dutch printshop sector for more sustainable printing. A new indicator is discussed, that compares environmental impact of papers. Secondly an Eco Paper Wizard has been designed and tested. The designed Eco Paper Wizard has a unique interaction design and tests have shown...