Provocative design for unprovocative designers: Strategies for triggering personal dilemmas

Traditional design approaches stimulate the creation of products that make daily interactions more efficient, comfortable, and pleasant. In contrast, provocative design approaches, such as critical design, have a different focus: they aim to challenge the status quo through products that expose assumptions and stimulate discussion. In this paper...

Happy moments: A well-being driven design of a Car2Go

User well‐being is increasingly addressed in design and design research. Previous work has proposed a design for well-¬‐being framework that includes three main ingredients: pleasure, personal significance, and virtue. While useful for analysing the well-¬‐being impact of existing designs, it is difficult to use the framework as a resource in...

Investigating the effect of Autonomous Driving on the interior architecture of a Porsche sports car.

In today’s world, provision of efficient, safe and fun mobility is one of the main challenges in our highly populated and dynamic urban environments. Traditional and passive mobility systems, which only rely on human control inputs are no longer safe and suitable to operate in these highly unpredictable environments. This increasing complexity...

The pursuit of happiness; redefining the interior design of a Car2Go vehicle.

This graduation project redefines the interior of a Car2Go vehicle by using Design for happiness as explorative research. Design for Happiness is a fairly new term in the design world and is increasingly applied, though there is still no existing methodology. The outcomes of this report will be used as a case study for a scientific paper at the...

Vehicle telematics; a learning studio for vehicle designers

Vehicle Telematics is a growth field and is transforming the transport sector. EADIS is a two year international initiative funded by Leonardo Da Vinci UK. It involves five European automotive and design-related educational institutions who have developed an internationally available online training programme that shares knowledge about...

Investigation of natural fiber composites heterogeneity with respect to automotive structures

This work is carried out within a university project, which is focused on the life cycle efficiency of products. This project is conducted because of the growing interest towards environmental protection, which requires a sustainable development of the industrial progress. A Dutch-EVO concept car was taken as a vehicle for the research within...