Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in...

城市荒野景观及其营造策略:以荷兰 实践为例

While the wilderness conservation movement continues to grow on an international scale, a wilderness conservation system is steadily being established in China. However, as urbanization continues to accelerate, the exploitation of natural wilderness spaces in cities is inevitable. How to preserve and design wilderness as much as possible within...

Places of non-resistance: An explorative study to the incorporation of (non)-resistance in the architectural design process to foster urban densification

Dutch cities are both expanding and densifying, corresponding to a global<br/>trend in which people increasingly tend to live in cities. Urban densification<br/>implicates the development of new buildings and redevelopment of part of the<br/>existing building stock, to meet the aims of future cities and their populations.<br/>These alterations...

Marginalia. A design strategy for rural shrinking areas: An Italian case

The research tryes to investigate the unexplored yet complex and diffused problem of rural shrinkage as a political landscape. By analysing an Italian rural municipality, which has been took as representative European rural area, it proposes a general spatial design strategy that, by relying on local resources and local actors, is able to become...

City Cleaning 2030

Starting out by following the Vision in Product Design methodology as developed by Hekkert and Van Dijk at the Delft University of Technology, the domain of this project needed to be framed and limited to a certain timeframe. The domain correspons to the title of this project exactly as it covers all aspects of the project’s scope.Consequently,...

Stimulating circular behaviour through design strategy

Mobile phones are undoubtedly an important part of our daily lives and activities. With the avid use and rapid upgrade patterns of mobile phones in current consumer lifestyle comes a wasteful disposal process. The high speed at which mobile phones are left for obsolescent makes the electronic waste problem that they bring with them a target of...

Nature-Inspired Design: Strategies for Sustainable Product Development

Product designers can apply different strategies, methods, and tools for sustainable product development. Nature-Inspired Design Strategies (NIDS) offer designers a distinct class of strategies that use ‘nature’ as a guiding source of knowledge and inspiration for addressing sustainability. Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle, two Nature-Inspired...

Ceiling of the future

The main goal of the project was to come up with a strategic design advice for the ceiling of the future that could extend the success of the EKAT-range of Rockfon Group in 5-10 years from now. The report guides you amongst other things through the company, competition and trends and developments in the building industry. Design directions are...

Return Of Design: How to measure the return of design investments?

This graduation project is about creating and implementing an effective way to measure and showcase the return of investment in design at a technology-driven company.

Two graduation projects: Nine brief sketches