Design in the chair AeroSpace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology (ASSET)

Urban landscape infrastructures: Designing operative landscape structures for the built environment

This paper explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridisation of the two concepts, landscape and infrastructure, seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing design disciplines to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes....

The Guardian: A holistic and user-centred design approach to optimise patient transport by airplane

What came before Each year hundreds of patients have to be returned to the Netherlands from all over the world. These medical transports are also referred to as repatriations. Due to the expensive and difficult circumstances of existing medical transport services, an innovative design was required that would enable a secure, flexible and more...

Designing a safe solution to transport intensive care patients

Introduction into the subject: ?Over the last years, more Dutch citizens have been travelling around the world and unfortunately this leads to more Dutch patients in hospitals in far away countries. This results in more requests by Dutch patients to be repatriated (transported back home) by airplane. Some of these patients are intensive care (IC...

Design of a Fully Electric Super Yacht: Research by design to find the drivers, enablers and barriers of electric yachting

The aim of this thesis is to analyze if a fully electric super yacht is feasible, desirable and viable. This is done using a “research by design” approach using the current (and future) drivers, enablers and barriers to design a concept.<br/><br/>First, a vision is developed using the ViP (Vision in Product design) method, in order to create a...