Sketching with Tangibility: An intuitive approach to design products based on flexibility

The principles of compliant mechanisms have been available to engineering students, students of mechanical engineering. Designers or design students had very little understanding of the principles behind making compliant things(Appendix B- Interviews). <br/><br/>Through the course of this project, the relevance of compliant products to designers...

Kabelfabriek 2.0: Working and living cabled in the factory

The research booklet presents the topic chosen for the graduation year of the masters of Architecture &amp; Heritage at the Technical University of Delft. The first two quarters of the graduation year were set up as a research phase, which was used as the starting point for the design phase of the second half of the year. “Heritage 4all: Univer...

Media treasure box: A media literacy workshop for primary school pupils

In the current medialized world, it has become of great importance for citizens to know how to deal with the media accordingly. Understanding and having a critical attitude towards the media content that we “consume” and being able to work with media devices and platforms has become as important as learning to read and write. Sound and Vision,...

Informal Network: A urban strategy for embracing difference and otherness in Bogota

Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the following research has...

Reclaiming the Greek Polis: The case of Kavala

The project is analyzing, evaluating and proposing solutions on the current planning sector in Greece. It is using the city of Kavala as an example of intervention, in order to experiment the outcomes of a new suggestion of design and planning tools. The research started by analyzing the Greek historical and socio-political context. Starting...

Applying Collaborative Design to Spatial Redesign: A Case Study at PostNL Parcels Benelux

Collaborative design processes can have many advantages for companies as a way of better problem solving by incorporating diverging views. The combination of collaborative design and spatial redesign has not extensively been applied so far. This research aims at exploring how collaborative design can be used for workplace lay-out redesign...

Student Center Vocational College Nogales

Design of a masterplan for a vocational college campus in Nogales (twin-city on the US-MEX border) with the architectural design of the student center which contains a library, meeting space and workshop.

How designers can facilitate DIY design: Development of an open workshop

The role of professional designers changes as a result of open information, fast prototyping techniques and the growing need for personalized products. This graduation project focuses on the role of professional designers in the facilitation of DIY for the home. A research is conducted to find out how a designer can best facilitate DIY design....

Sustainability Maturity Model: The Pilot Sustainability Agenda-Setting in Business

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Sustainable development is a young, developing field in which many standards, certificates, and initiatives are spawning. Companies are expected to work on sustainable development by its customers, investors, and society in...

Material Bank

Organisation “Material Bank” acts as a mediating organisation between individual inhabitants or their groups; outside (non Riberas) sources, other projects inside the strategy, local workers and producers, becoming a point of exchange of materials, labor, information and money. Developing over time from scrap buying and information point to...

Development of a Co-creation Strategy Tool: For Fronteer Strategy

Design a Co-Creation tool for Fronteer Strategy complementing their current offer. The people at Fronteer Strategy have developed a tool for Cocreation called Rooftop. They knew that Rooftop worked well but they believed that they could benefit from a different and complementing tool in their portfolio. Co-creation, as a part of the more broad...