The Mindful Kitchen

Our living spaces seem to be changing with the possibilities of digitization. However, the kitchen seems to be the exception in the integration of digital systems. For some reason, kitchen design lags behind on these aspects. Is this just a coincidence or does the kitchen house some essential social interactions? Historically, the kitchen was...

HALO: stimulating pro-environmental disposal behaviour

This thesis presents the conceptual design process of a new intervention to stimulate pro-environmental disposal behaviour. Littering is a growing problem in the world. Research shows that the brand which is found most between the litter in the Netherlands is Red Bull. Although many interventions have been applied to try to change behaviour of...

The design library: motivating visitors to engage with the Design Museum

Preserving and protecting art for the enjoyment of future generations is part of a museum’s mission. But what if the objects on display are not that costly or rare, were in fact mass produced once? This may sound unlikely, though it is exactly the case in a museum devoted to contemporary design: The Design Museum in London. This is a museum with...

Exhibition design for the Letterkundig Museum

This report will cover my graduation project at the Letterkundig Museum in the Hague. The focus of this project is attracting teenagers (13 to 18 years old) to the museum, by means of an exhibition concept that offers an experience that is educational. Phase 1 - Analysis The Letterkundig Museum concerns itself with the collection of literary...

A new perspective from the sofa: An application design for the future of television for RTL XL

This master thesis focusses on the future of television for RTL XL. RTL XL is the digital platform for RTL Nederland, a Dutch broadcasting company. The design anticipates on the future television viewing behaviour of the RTL (XL) user. In the anlaysis phase, first the company RTL (XL) was anlaysed, after which a context analysis was performed by...

A new space design for Impact Hub Oaxaca, based on a reproducible interaction model for the spaces of Impact Hub around the world

HUB Oaxaca is a hub that provides office space, workshops and connections to a community of 120 entrepreneurs that strive for social change in Oaxaca, Mexico. HUB Oaxaca is part of Impact Hub, a global network of more than 50 hubs that together grow social impact. The current physical space of HUB Oaxaca does not reflect its complex but...

Creating Festival Nights: Growing your own overnight festival accommodation

This graduation project, entitled “Creating festival nights, growing your own overnight festival accommodation”, contains the process of a study that was performed to elicit the interaction possibilities during the overnight stay at Zwarte Cross in order to create a festival night, which ultimately led up to the design of Freedom Village. Zwarte...

Digitization in the Physical Bookstore

This Industrial Design Engineering graduation project is part of the Master´s programme Integrated Product Design (specialization Retail Design) at the TU Delft. The assignment was commissioned by the branding and design agency Tomorrow Design for the new formula of bookstore chain Polare, which combines former bookstore chains Selexyz and De...

The subculture of electronic dance music: Developing a strategy for ZeeZout: from underground to event brand

ZeeZout is a young Dutch company focused at events in the (underground) house music. A strong believe in music as common ground between people leads ZeeZout as a growing brand in the Dutch electronic music scene. With different events throughout the Netherlands, ZeeZout is striving to build a strong brand in house music, both through earning the...

Kijk je Rijk! - A rejuvenation strategy for the Mauritshuis

This report aims to provide the Mauritshuis with a concept design that will contribute to the rejuvenation of the Mauritshuis’ visitor profile. The concept may attract a younger audience, without losing sight of the collection and the Mauritshuis’ current visitors. A promising target audience that contributes to this rejuvenation are young...

America Today, a new fitting experience.

This project is conducted on behalf of American Today, a Dutch fashion retail company with 59 stores in The Netherlands, Belgium and France. They offer American college style clothing for guys and girls and state that they are “young minded”. Their mission is to make easy comfortable clothing available for students and everybody else who...

Blove: The shared library of TUDelft

Using Mekel Park, the unfrequented green area of TUDelft as a study-case, the project provides both theoretical foundation and practical application to increase and foster the use of public space involving its community. Few years ago the central public space of TUDelft campus was completely renovated with the creation of a green area called...

Product Design for Social Impact

This master thesis shows a design project in which the Design for Social Impact method is applied, and evaluated, in Afrikaanderwijk, a socio-economically weak area of Rotterdam, for housing corporation Vestia. Afrikaanderwijk is a part of Rotterdam that has been subject to numerous urban renewal plans in the last couple of decades. A...

The design of social-cultural integration: A case study to design integration between street culture and the burger culture in the areas of Houtwijk and Nieuw-Waldeck, The Hague, The Netherlands

Integration is still a hot topic in Dutch politics. Declining neighborhoods suffer from poverty, neglected social housing and an over-representation of inhabitants with a non-Dutch cultural background. These severe circumstances have had a strong influence on the youngsters that have been raised in these areas. The Ghetto culture has made his...

Wayfinding symbols for the hospital of the future

This thesis is about the design of symbols for the hospital of the future. My design statement was: By focussing on the moment, I want to enable people to forget their worries in a hospital, while finding the right way to their destination intuitively. The set of symbols is based on bringing together intuition and astonishment.

The design of an interpretive device for museums

This graduation project was done for Guide ID: A company that specialises in the development and production of audio and multimedia guides. Their products are sold to museums, visitor centres, zoos, etc. Museums are the main customers of Guide ID and the project has therefore focused on them. The assignment for this project was to design a new...

The Philips Easy Line: A Retrospective Case Study

Usability, simplicity and ease of use are still ‘hot topics’ in product design. To illustrate how important the user became in product design, Philips introduced Sense and Simplicity as their brand promise in 2004. However, in the early nineties, Philips had already launched a product line that aimed to be specifically easy to use. The line was...