Circular economy as crisis response: A primer

The early 2020s have been characterized by multiple convergent crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic and economic fallout of mitigation measures, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing sustainability and climate change crisis. This article discusses how the concept of the circular economy can inform responses to such crises by...

Designing personal respiratory protection equipment during a crisis situation

This project contains the graduation project of Fokke Jongerden as part of his curriculum of the master Integrated Product Design at the TU Delft. The project consists of a reflection and redesign of the Air-Wave.org Protector (AWP), a respiratory protection device designed by the non profit Air-Wave.org. The AWP is developed to protect hospital...

Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help

Context: As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful conditions.<br/><br/>Objective: This study investigates the effects of the pandemic on developers’ wellbeing and productivity.<br/><br/>Method: A questionnaire survey...