Hooked: A design intervention establishing reflective fashion consumption

CONTEXT Today’s overconsumption of clothes harms the environment and the people involved in the production. Although (clothing) consumption plays an essential role in society and therefore could not be eliminated, an improvement could be made by: Preventing people from buying items they will not wear. Preventing the industry from producing...

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...