Sustainability Inspired Materials Selection App for Designers

This graduation thesis presents the results of the design of a sustainability inspired materials selection app for designers. Sustainable design, and in specific ecodesign plays an increasingly important role in society. However, industrial designers, being uniquely suited to take such considerations into account, have difficulty in finding the...

Design of Sustainable Bridges

In the upcoming years a few hunderds of pedestrian bridges in Rotterdam have to be replaced. At Agentschap NL and at Ingenieursbureau Gemeente-werken Rotterdam (IGWR) there is the desire to take sustainability into account when replacing pedestrian’s bridges. There was however not much information available yet about the criteria that make a...

Sustainable BATA footwear

BATA has a heritage of being a responsible company since its founding, but has not yet institutionalized and measured their social and environmental accomplishments. This study starts measuring the environmental impact of 4 current BATA shoes by means of life cycle calculations. Thereafter, the effects of different communication strategies are...

A Cradle-To-Cradle Picnic experience for Ameland and the other Cradle-to-Cradle islands

During this graduation project a sustainable activity for the C2C-Islands was researched and designed, with Ameland as main context. It was chosen to develop a C2C picnic set, because this matches the current activities (mainly outdoor) that are undertaken and possibilities that are available (local foods and excellent picnic facilities). The...

Creating a New Strategy: How to communicate and brand “recycled clothes”

Textiles for Textiles project (T4T) was established to develop a new technology that will reduce the ecological impact of the post consumer textiles. The creation of this new technology lowers the recycling time, giving the T4T partners an opportunity to do new businesses with series of products made with recycled textiles. The T4T partners have...