The RepairHub: Design of a repair center to overcome Rotterdam citizens‘ barriers to repair

Consumer repair practices are detrimental to advancing the circular economy since they are a vital strategy for prolonging a product‘s lifetime and saving resources. Despite the need for repair services for a functioning circular economy, the practice of Repair for consumers has declined, and more and more citizens prefer product replacement...

Developing a concept to reduce packaging waste at Aalberts Hydronic Flow Control

Aalberts Hydronic Flow Control has set the target to reduce their packaging material by 20% in weight by 2025. In this thesis will be looked into, and recommended on this target. In addition to this, the assignment has been established to develop a concept to reduce packaging waste for Aalberts through research on sustainable packaging,...

Design of a Circular Product-Service System for 3D Printed Children's Footwear

3D printing technology is a rapidly growing field in the context of footwear production, and in combination with computational design and foot scanning tools and algorithms, this allows for a shift from mass production to mass customization of footwear. This thesis considers the design of a new circular product-service system for children’s...

Repack the packaging of fast moving consumer goods

This research examines the potential for sustainable packaging in the context of supermarket products, focusing on the concepts of reuse and standardisation.<br/><br/>The central question addressed is whether consumers retain positive attitudes towards purchase intention, brand image, perceived quality, aesthetic attractiveness, and perceived...

Finding the sweet spot: a sustainability strategy and holistically sustainable packaging designs for Bertolli

Food packaging serves many functions, from product protection to extending product shelf life to enabling convenient or effective usage (i.e., portability, resealability) to communicating relevant information or brand image to consumers. However, packaging has various negative impacts on the environment throughout its life cycle. While consumers...

Designing for Kinderfaculteit Pendrecht: A roadmap to implement the stimulation of curiosity and perseverance in the organization’s working method

Kinderfaculteit Pendrecht, one of the programs of Stichting de Verre Bergen, offers children in Pendrecht the opportunity to spend their time in a useful way through after-school lessons. The Kinderfaculteit’s vision is to stimulate curiosity and perseverance among the children. As this vision is not yet integrated into their working method, the...

Increasing data sustainability: a behavioural approach

In a matter of decades, information technologies have become omni-present in the lives of more than a billion people. Whilst holding many promises for more efficient and therefore seemingly more sustainable practices, this fast-growing industry is expanding its footprint rapidly. Exponential advancements in hardware and software are kept in...

Fighting premature obsolescence: Design guidelines to increase (expected) product lifetimes

Scientists have been warning for years about the consequences of the current take-make-waste system, and incremental change is needed to enable the environment to regenerate and move towards a sustainable society. Especially electronic waste (e-waste), which currently increases three times faster than regular waste and is hard to collect and...

Bovine: A Leather Driven Design Start-Up

This project is a reaction to the combination of the fact that the leather industry is growing and that there is a shift towards the male accessories market. It started with the ambition of setting up a business that is focused around the manufacturing of leather goods and that could start directly after graduating. To achieve this, three goals...

Shopping bag 2.0: encouraging sustainable shopping behaviour through design-driven solutions

This Master Thesis is the result of the graduation project commissioned by Gyre, a start-up company that brings products to the market from a commitment to reduce plastic waste across world oceans. To contribute in solving the problem of oceanic pollution, reducing the stream of plastic bags entering the the oceans is a convenient way to start,...

Car transportable personal shopping cart

The average shopper in the US goes to the shopping mall more than two times a week for groceries and other items. During the shopping consumers often use shopping carts to move larger quantities of items than they can carry. But the shopping cart that is currently used to increase the carrying convenience of moving groceries stops at the car....

Communicating packaging sustainability to consumers: Generating styling guidelines for packaging sustainability

While consumers like the idea of sustainability, they do not always opt for “green” products and packages. This is partially due to the lack of access to these alternatives either due to high pricing or unavailability in stores. In addition consumers do not believe green claims in advertisements and on packages due to companies greenwashing...

Personalisation for Scarabee's Experience Center

The goal of this project is to design a tool that supports the business developers to explain how a signature solution adds value to the airport and how it is created. To be able to design this tool more information is needed about what a signature solutions is and why it is important. Also more context is needed about when and where this tool...