Architecture of Transitional Justice: The Cooperative as part of Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Colombia

The recent Colombian Peace Agreement between the government of Juan Manuel<br/>Santos and FARC-EP offers the opportunity to analyze the transitional justice<br/>model, that aims to address the past violent events and the future of the victims.<br/>The lack of involvement of architecture in the post-conflict dialogue on transitional justice,...

Popstage Santos

Located on Katendrecht is a warehouse Santos built in 1903. The purpose was to store the coffee which came from Santos (a place close to Sao Paulo, Brazil). This coffee warehouse is empty nowadays and transformed into a pop stage.

Web shop packaging strategy for a FairChain coffee company

New packaging is designed for a FairChain coffee start-up company. The project result contains insights in the company and the context, an overview of the web shop customer wants (after qualitative and quantitative research) and the final deliverable is a packaging design for a delivery box and the coffee bags inside.

Characterisation of waste coffee grounds as a design material: A case study of material driven design

This is the final thesis of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the Politecnico of Milano (Italy). The assignment is commissioned by Re-Worked (UK) and the main research question is formulated as: ‘how can waste coffee based-materials be designed both technically and experiential...

Mokkop: A personal moment for parents of hospitalized children with cancer

When a child is diagnosed with childhood cancer, parents tend to forget about their own well-being and focus totally on their child. In many cases, parents break during the two year treatment and get emotional problems. Mokkop is coffee mug that reminds parents to take a moment for themselves. Five times a day it lights up to trigger parents to...

Making hospitals more hospitable: designing new coffee systems for the hospital context

Health Care is gaining attention in the public debate, because our greying society leads to ever increasing costs and includes a labour force that is not capable of dealing with the increasing amount of people that require health support. This development is putting pressure on society in economic, but also social terms. Privatization processes...