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This paper analyses the use of natural light as a design element in museums. While the design of natural light is important for all types of buildings, it takes additional layers of complexity in museum buildings and exhibition spaces. Due to the need to preserve the artwork, museums tend to become black boxes, with no interaction with the outside. Even so, there are numerous architects who have designed museum spaces that make use of natural light in incredible ways. This paper wishes to look into different ways in which natural light has been used in museums, what is its role, how it interacts with the exhibition, how was it implemented, etc. To do so, it combines a literature review of architecture books and articles with image analyses of sketches and photographs of three museums chosen as case studies: the Aalborg Art Museum by Alvar Aalto, the Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, and the Museum of contemporary art in Herning by Steven Holl Architects., AR2A011, Architectural History Thesis, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Manufacturing firms are facing the critical need to manage their business growth while staying within the biophysical limits of the planet. Absolute environmental sustainability decoupling (AESD) combines these goals and is one of the keys for manufacturing firms to achieve their sustainable transition. This study offers an initial contribution to categorise decoupling at the firm level while incorporating absolute environmental sustainability goals. It also explores the role of design in achieving AESD and opens doors for further research on manufacturing firms' sustainability transition.

Based on circular economy readiness assessments of six value chain layers, 18 design strategies and five collaboration strategies for circular economy were identified. The design strategies have many applications, from the design of materials, products, and processes to business models, and while some are specific to determined layers, others can be addressed by companies in multiple layers. Furthermore, collaboration across the value chain was found to affect positively the employment of circular economy design strategies, contributing to the fulfilment of solutions’ circularity potential.

In 1987, Brundtland coined the term "sustainable development" to tackle the worldwide issue of environmental deterioration. Subsequent to that, swift progressions in science and technology have resulted in climate change, characterized by a rapid increase in global temperatures. The primary objective of the Paris Climate agreement is to limit the increase in global temperatures to a maximum of 2°C, with a preferable target of 1.5°C. The issue of energy usage in buildings is increasingly concerning as buildings contribute to 40% of the total carbon dioxide emissions. Global governments are implementing stringent steps to mitigate emissions and establish benchmarks for energy usage in buildings. In the Netherlands, mandatory energy labels have been implemented to regulate energy usage. However, these labels solely consider energy consumption related to heating, cooling, lighting, and hot water supply. This leads to disparities in energy performance, which are frequently disregarded or ignored throughout the design phase. The behavior of occupants is a critical factor in building design, as it has a substantial influence on energy consumption. Occupant-centric design minimizes overall energy usage by decreasing buildings' susceptibility to occupant behavior. The categorization of occupant behavior encompassed three primary classifications: occupancy, interactions, and behavioral efficiency. These characteristics highlight the diverse manners in which occupant-related factors impact the energy efficiency of buildings. The industry's current processes expose multiple issues and limitations that contribute to energy performance gaps, including specific design and asset management techniques. In order to minimize the overall energy consumption in buildings and close the energy performance gap, it is imperative to tackle these issues. Considering the problems and deficiencies found in present industry practices and the theoretical insights from scientific literature, i, Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

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 healthcare brings up the potential to create so-called healing environments. Although, mostly situated within a natural context, the question could be how to implement the design approach of a healing environment into an existing building within an urban context and what values it could bring to the surrounding neighborhood. Especially when given an user-centered (holistic) approach. This graduation design project explores in which way this user-centered design approach can be optimised by implementing certain 'atmospheres' within an existing context of a building in the station area of Leiden., Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Engineering

‘Wicked problems’ like Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour is a complex social phenomenon which the Ministry of Justice and Security feel increasing urgency for. However, because such a phenomenon is complex and fast-paced it is hard to respond to. Since 2018 Directie X has started to draw attention to Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour within the Ministry of Justice and Security. But the (potential) stakeholders found the complexity too high to take ownership and action. The current process is a way of working which has been initiated to respond to wicked problems like’ ‘Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour’. Unfortunately this way of working results in the problem being moved around the Ministry as ‘un-opened boxes’. From interviews, observations, and collaborating with the current process themes emerged surrounding the way of working. Themes are aspects which hinder ‘opening the boxes’. This project suggests a strategy for the Ministry of Justice and Security to transition towards an alternative way of working which focuses on actionability to be able to effectively respond to wicked problems like Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour., Strategic Product Design

This research explores current strategies and approaches directed to integrate innovative technologies in the home modification process to support independent living and ageing in place. The systematic review considered studies conducted from the perspective of architecture, smart technology, and gerontology. Scientific databases of related disciplines (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science, Engineer village, Google Scholar, Crossref) were searched and supplemented by hand search method. Thirty-three out of 2594 articles were analysed from three perspectives: the framework of the smart home environment for ageing in place, the smart home modification process, and problems and countermeasures of independent living. The result shows that both home modification and smart technologies can support older adults’ independent living, especially with fall prevention and indoor accessibility. Technologies deployed in older adults’ homes are transiting from manual assistive technology to more intelligent devices, and the notion of the robotic home has emerged. According to existing practices, universal design is an extensively adopted strategy for smart home design and modification. However, in most cases, universal design is used as a retrofitting guideline for general home settings rather than specifically for smart homes. The fundamental requirements in smart home modification phases are customisation, minimum life interference, and extensible technologies to cope with the ageing process.

Intelligent and connected services have become essential in the manufacturing industry. The surge of these services has even started a new phase of industry; industry 4.0. The COALA consortium aims to develop a service to assist operators within this new industry. The COALA consortium is an European Union Programme and aims to develop a Digital Intelligent Assistant (DIA). The DIA supports operators in situations characterised by cognitive load, time pressure, and little or zero tolerance for quality issues with trustworthy AI components. Diversey is one of the consortium’s partners and perceives COALA’s DIA as a viable solution to their stoppage challenge on their production lines in the factory. These stoppages can be caused by various bottlenecks, which are hard to determine due to the production lines’ complexity and processes. Therefore, this thesis explores how to prepare for AI service adoption within the factory of Diversey. However, management from the Diversey factory has attempted to identify the bottlenecks by collecting production information through operator data entries. Unfortunately, the operators did not provide the tool with quality data entries. Therefore, replacing this tool with the DIA most likely not succeed, especially when the new tool utilises AI technology that requires learning data to generate insights. In order to explore this resistance toward new tools within the factory, I used the frame creation method of Dorst. This method excels at finding innovative solutions for problem definitions with previously unsuccessful attempts. The method explores underlying themes within the context to reframe the problem definition and find new solution spaces. The themes are formulated from interviews with management, eight support staff employees across four departments, a team lead, and six operators. Four themes are generated by analysing the values, interactions, and ‘currency’ exchanged between stakeholders. These themes regarding new tools des, Strategic Product Design

Remanufacturing offers an approach to extend product lifetime beyond its first use. After restoring products to original quality, they are reintroduced to the market. To make products more suited for this approach, and to increase resource-efficiency, design for remanufacturing can be incorporated for new product development. Academic literature points out opportunities for improved implementation particularly through early-stage design activities. This paper presents an in-depth, single case study into the opportunities and barriers to incorporate design for remanufacturing ine early-stage design. The selected case company is a producer of professional imaging equipment with an internal remanufacturing division. The company has decades of experience in remanufacturing and has introduced a company standard on design for End-of-Life. For data collection, employees from different departments were interviewed and observed. Design management theory was used to combine findings from all perspectives into a company-specific strategy map. This map shows departmental interrelations and dependencies, and exposes the opportunities for creating new value through design. At the case company, remanufacturing was found to be separate from, and secondary to, the development of newly manufactured products. If the strategy of a company is not attuned to developing products that serve multiple use-cycles, its execution will remain sub-optimal and remanufacturing will be a value-retention strategy in isolation. These findings may be valid for other companies that have remanufacturing operations, which are separate, as well., Circular Product Design, Climate Design and Sustainability

The sustainability adoption of sustainability practices is currently low for Small Enterprises, Freelancers and Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), while they must do their part to become more environmentally sustainable. SMEs are responsible for many greenhouse gas emissions emitted and as almost all companies in the Netherlands are SMEs, this presents an urgent call for change. However, many SMEs are not prioritising sustainability which is not without cause. Many limitations within SMEs withhold them from taking action. The most significant hurdle for SMEs is their size which comes with limited human, financial and technical resources. Furthermore, the same limitations result in SMEs’ lagging use of digital technologies. This lagging use of digital technologies is unfortunate because ICT can positively contribute to environmental goals if an SME uses ICT in their business. A way to improve environmental sustainability with ICT is through telecommunication (telecom). However, there is still no broadly adopted manner in which SMEs can use current telecom technologies to be less harmful to the environment. The telecom sector is in a position where it can enable its customers to become more sustainable and reduce scope 3 downstream emissions. Nevertheless, as the role of enabler is not yet optimally utilised by telecommunication companies (telcos), customers are not yet decreasing their emissions. Therefore, there is potential for KPN to guide SMEs with their sustainability expertise to transition them towards sustainability through using telecom. SMEs face challenges when open to adopting sustainable telecom practices. The explorative research in this thesis has shown that six different topics influence whether an SME can or is willing to adopt a sustainable telecom practice. These topics are; the right means for an online way of working, collaborative effort, education of digital sustainability, management decisions for sustainability, of, Strategic Product Design

The buildings construction industry is demanded to reduce its ecological footprint to mitigate its contribution to climate change. In this context, a novel sustainable design strategy for the reuse of timber was developed in this Master thesis. The design strategy focuses on the utilization of the material “reclaimed timber” (RT) in the structural system “reciprocal frame” (RF). RT is timber which is harvested from the load bearing structure of dismantled buildings. Large quantities of RT are currently fixed in the building stock. RFs are a family of structures that boast with a rich variety of forms and diverse functions. The utilization of RT in RFs is favorable because RT items which are relatively short can span distances longer than their length when combined with RFs. To inform the development of the design strategy a literature review on both RT and RFs was conducted. These theoretical studies were supplemented with more practical methods of investigation: RT was inspected first-hand during a visit of a salvage yard that stores RT. Throughout the project physical modeling was used as tool to explore and illustrate the characteristics of RFs. Moreover, during a three-day workshop in which a RF canopy structure from RT was built, important design aspects of RFs were investigated. This first part of the research concluded with describing the state-of-the art of the structural utilization of RT and providing a comprehensive overview of the structural design with RFs. Key findings of the theoretical and practical studies on both RT and RFs were that the limited stock of available RT items and the geometric complexity of RFs are the two major problems when designing a RF with RT. To solve the two problems a novel RT database configuration that archives the properties of specific RT items was developed. This RT database was applied in conjunction with a novel bottom-up geometry generation model for Rainbow RFs. The Rainbow RF was identified as adva, Civil Engineering | Building Engineering - Structural Design

Data on the decision-making process of residential burglars at the micro-level are scarce. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, none of the related studies have investigated multiple relationships between the design features of a target, a burglar’s assessment of effort and risk involved in the crime, and the final decision on target selection. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that a burglar’s judgment of how difficult (ease of intrusion) and how risky (risk of detection) it would be to break into a certain target may mediate the relationship between the target’s design features and target selection. The experiment using virtual reality was conducted to obtain more credible data by maximizing the immersion of participants, and the collected data were analyzed using path analysis. The results showed that the assessment of ease of intrusion and risk of detection for a burglary target served as mediators between the design features of the target and the decision on target selection. This study also found that the ease of intrusion and risk of detection were not evaluated independently but instead had influential relationships. These results suggest that when developing design strategies for burglary prevention, it is important to check the overall level of ease and risk of the possible intrusion routes of a target and their correlation by considering various environmental factors around the intrusion routes., Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public., Spatial Planning and Strategy

This research explores current strategies and approaches directed to integrate innovative technologies in the home modification process to support independent living and ageing in place. The systematic review considered studies conducted from the perspective of architecture, smart technology, and gerontology. Scientific databases of related disciplines (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science, Engineer village, Google Scholar, Crossref) were searched and supplemented by hand search method. Thirty-three out of 2594 articles were analysed from three perspectives: the framework of the smart home environment for ageing in place, the smart home modification process, and problems and countermeasures of independent living. The result shows that both home modification and smart technologies can support older adults’ independent living, especially with fall prevention and indoor accessibility. Technologies deployed in older adults’ homes are transiting from manual assistive technology to more intelligent devices, and the notion of the robotic home has emerged. According to existing practices, universal design is an extensively adopted strategy for smart home design and modification. However, in most cases, universal design is used as a retrofitting guideline for general home settings rather than specifically for smart homes. The fundamental requirements in smart home modification phases are customisation, minimum life interference, and extensible technologies to cope with the ageing process.

Remanufacturing offers an approach to extend product lifetime beyond its first use. After restoring products to original quality, they are reintroduced to the market. To make products more suited for this approach, and to increase resource-efficiency, design for remanufacturing can be incorporated for new product development. Academic literature points out opportunities for improved implementation particularly through early-stage design activities. This paper presents an in-depth, single case study into the opportunities and barriers to incorporate design for remanufacturing ine early-stage design. The selected case company is a producer of professional imaging equipment with an internal remanufacturing division. The company has decades of experience in remanufacturing and has introduced a company standard on design for End-of-Life. For data collection, employees from different departments were interviewed and observed. Design management theory was used to combine findings from all perspectives into a company-specific strategy map. This map shows departmental interrelations and dependencies, and exposes the opportunities for creating new value through design. At the case company, remanufacturing was found to be separate from, and secondary to, the development of newly manufactured products. If the strategy of a company is not attuned to developing products that serve multiple use-cycles, its execution will remain sub-optimal and remanufacturing will be a value-retention strategy in isolation. These findings may be valid for other companies that have remanufacturing operations, which are separate, as well., Circular Product Design, Climate Design and Sustainability

In order to help the building and construction sector move towards a Circular Economy and lower its environmental impact, a better founded choice regarding the design and selection of building materials for a building’s load bearing structure is required. By investigating different design strategies that focus on optimizing various aspects of the Circular Economy, an office building can be designed in such a way that it matches both the initial client’s requirements as well as possibly changing future needs. Different design strategies then lead to varying lay-outs of a building’s load bearing structure and the building material it’s made of. By ranking ten design perspectives in varying orders, three main design strategies can be formed. The first one maximizes a building's technical service life, thereby limiting the use of new materials and energy during maintenance activities. The second strategy aims for a maximal functional service life, by making the original building fit for possible other functions in the future. The final strategy maximizes a building's residual value, which includes re-use of building elements in new projects. The next step is to link these design strategies to various criteria that can be included in the Multi Criteria Analysis. This results in a total of nine criteria, some of them being linked to the characteristics of a building material and the type of connections that come with that material. Other criteria depend on the design of a load bearing structure, such as the total weight of a structure, its ECI value and a cost indication. Now, all these MCA criteria can be given different weights, according to their level of importance per design strategy. Finally, the MCA as explained above, can be tested on a case study from Witteveen+Bos. Based on the Program of Requirements as formulated by the client, both design strategy 2 and 3 could be followed during the design phase. The main difference between these two strategies, Civil Engineering | Structural Engineering

The buildings construction industry is demanded to reduce its ecological footprint to mitigate its contribution to climate change. In this context, a novel sustainable design strategy for the reuse of timber was developed in this Master thesis. The design strategy focuses on the utilization of the material “reclaimed timber” (RT) in the structural system “reciprocal frame” (RF). RT is timber which is harvested from the load bearing structure of dismantled buildings. Large quantities of RT are currently fixed in the building stock. RFs are a family of structures that boast with a rich variety of forms and diverse functions. The utilization of RT in RFs is favorable because RT items which are relatively short can span distances longer than their length when combined with RFs. To inform the development of the design strategy a literature review on both RT and RFs was conducted. These theoretical studies were supplemented with more practical methods of investigation: RT was inspected first-hand during a visit of a salvage yard that stores RT. Throughout the project physical modeling was used as tool to explore and illustrate the characteristics of RFs. Moreover, during a three-day workshop in which a RF canopy structure from RT was built, important design aspects of RFs were investigated. This first part of the research concluded with describing the state-of-the art of the structural utilization of RT and providing a comprehensive overview of the structural design with RFs. Key findings of the theoretical and practical studies on both RT and RFs were that the limited stock of available RT items and the geometric complexity of RFs are the two major problems when designing a RF with RT. To solve the two problems a novel RT database configuration that archives the properties of specific RT items was developed. This RT database was applied in conjunction with a novel bottom-up geometry generation model for Rainbow RFs. The Rainbow RF was identified as adva, Civil Engineering | Building Engineering - Structural Design

The sustainability adoption of sustainability practices is currently low for Small Enterprises, Freelancers and Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), while they must do their part to become more environmentally sustainable. SMEs are responsible for many greenhouse gas emissions emitted and as almost all companies in the Netherlands are SMEs, this presents an urgent call for change. However, many SMEs are not prioritising sustainability which is not without cause. Many limitations within SMEs withhold them from taking action. The most significant hurdle for SMEs is their size which comes with limited human, financial and technical resources. Furthermore, the same limitations result in SMEs’ lagging use of digital technologies. This lagging use of digital technologies is unfortunate because ICT can positively contribute to environmental goals if an SME uses ICT in their business. A way to improve environmental sustainability with ICT is through telecommunication (telecom). However, there is still no broadly adopted manner in which SMEs can use current telecom technologies to be less harmful to the environment. The telecom sector is in a position where it can enable its customers to become more sustainable and reduce scope 3 downstream emissions. Nevertheless, as the role of enabler is not yet optimally utilised by telecommunication companies (telcos), customers are not yet decreasing their emissions. Therefore, there is potential for KPN to guide SMEs with their sustainability expertise to transition them towards sustainability through using telecom. SMEs face challenges when open to adopting sustainable telecom practices. The explorative research in this thesis has shown that six different topics influence whether an SME can or is willing to adopt a sustainable telecom practice. These topics are; the right means for an online way of working, collaborative effort, education of digital sustainability, management decisions for sustainability, of, Strategic Product Design

‘Wicked problems’ like Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour is a complex social phenomenon which the Ministry of Justice and Security feel increasing urgency for. However, because such a phenomenon is complex and fast-paced it is hard to respond to. Since 2018 Directie X has started to draw attention to Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour within the Ministry of Justice and Security. But the (potential) stakeholders found the complexity too high to take ownership and action. The current process is a way of working which has been initiated to respond to wicked problems like’ ‘Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour’. Unfortunately this way of working results in the problem being moved around the Ministry as ‘un-opened boxes’. From interviews, observations, and collaborating with the current process themes emerged surrounding the way of working. Themes are aspects which hinder ‘opening the boxes’. This project suggests a strategy for the Ministry of Justice and Security to transition towards an alternative way of working which focuses on actionability to be able to effectively respond to wicked problems like Harmful and Immoral Online Behaviour., Strategic Product Design

Intelligent and connected services have become essential in the manufacturing industry. The surge of these services has even started a new phase of industry; industry 4.0. The COALA consortium aims to develop a service to assist operators within this new industry. The COALA consortium is an European Union Programme and aims to develop a Digital Intelligent Assistant (DIA). The DIA supports operators in situations characterised by cognitive load, time pressure, and little or zero tolerance for quality issues with trustworthy AI components. Diversey is one of the consortium’s partners and perceives COALA’s DIA as a viable solution to their stoppage challenge on their production lines in the factory. These stoppages can be caused by various bottlenecks, which are hard to determine due to the production lines’ complexity and processes. Therefore, this thesis explores how to prepare for AI service adoption within the factory of Diversey. However, management from the Diversey factory has attempted to identify the bottlenecks by collecting production information through operator data entries. Unfortunately, the operators did not provide the tool with quality data entries. Therefore, replacing this tool with the DIA most likely not succeed, especially when the new tool utilises AI technology that requires learning data to generate insights. In order to explore this resistance toward new tools within the factory, I used the frame creation method of Dorst. This method excels at finding innovative solutions for problem definitions with previously unsuccessful attempts. The method explores underlying themes within the context to reframe the problem definition and find new solution spaces. The themes are formulated from interviews with management, eight support staff employees across four departments, a team lead, and six operators. Four themes are generated by analysing the values, interactions, and ‘currency’ exchanged between stakeholders. These themes regarding new tools des, Strategic Product Design

This research focuses on the study and qualitative assessment of the relationships between motivators and game mechanics per the ratings of expert gamification consultants. By taking this approach, it is intended that during the design phase of a gamified system, decisions can be made about the design of the system based on the motivators of each of the profiles. These motivators can be determined from the information provided by the potential players themselves. The research presented starts from a previous analysis in which, based on the three most used gamification frameworks and through a card sorting technique that allows the user to organize and classify the content, a set of mechanics are determined. In the present study, each of the mechanics is analyzed, and a more precise motive is decided. As a result, a higher level of personalization is achieved and, consequently, approximates a higher level of gamification effectiveness. The main conclusions are implemented in the development of the Game4City 3.0 project, which addresses gamified and interactive strategies to visualize urban environments in 3D at an educational and social level., Fac. de Psicología, TRUE, pub

Indirectly-irradiated receivers are widely used in most of the existing commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. In order to compare the performances of the potential design strategies for the future high-temperature indirectly-irradiated receivers, a theoretical study has been conducted from a thermodynamic point of view. By analyzing the thermal circuit of the absorber wall, the roles of the heat flux through the wall and the total heat resistance have been observed to become more important to the receiver performances with increasing the concentration ratio. The influences of four parameters to the receiver performances have been analyzed: the convection heat transfer coefficient of the working fluid, the cavity shape factor, the thermal conductivity and the thickness of the absorber wall. Designing the absorber in a cavity shape has been proved to be an efficient way in enhancing the receiver performances by reducing the heat flux through the absorber wall. The advantage of the cavity receivers increases with increasing the concentration ratio, especially for gaseous working fluids which have relatively low heat transfer rates. The theoretical performance maps have been obtained for different potential design strategies, which will be helpful for making decisions in the future conceptual choice of receiver designs., QC 20210113

The initial goal of this graduation project was to find a way to establish a reliable digital relationship with PostNL’s consumer. This is considered an important part of a digital transformation strategy that is necessary for traditional postal companies to stay relevant in a digital era. One of the main challenges of this digital era, relevant for PostNL, is the increasing uncertainty of knowing who one is dealing with online. This assignment focuses on the idea of implementing a digital identity (eID) that can be used during digital and physical encounters with PostNL and is able to provide the desired certainty to ensure a more safe and seamless service. Thereby the focus during this project is especially on how this digital identity can be established, with whom and which certainties are absolutely necessary for doing so. Digital identities that enable a consumer to prove who he or she is online, can exist out of multiple attributes that define this (online) user. Worldwide these digital identities are increasingly being adopted by companies active in multiple service industries, including LSPs. However, this does not mean that companies can simply request all kinds of data from their consumers to confirm the needed attributes. With regard to regulations including those concerned with privacy (GDPR), they are required to keep data processing to a minimum and are therefore only allowed to request data that is absolutely necessary. For PostNL, it was found that sufficient desired certainty would be possible to be established by personal validation or address validation. Although consumers do see PostNL as a reliable party (the most reliable within the Netherlands), they do not seem to be willing to (digitally) share sensitive personal information such as a picture of their ID with PostNL. Address validation on the other hand does not require too much personal information about an individual but does provide the assurance that that individual has a high probabilit, Strategic Product Design

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 recycle (The World Bank, 2021), is an increasing concern and an opportunity for improvement. In this project, the problem of premature obsolescence is addressed. The project investigates how to increase the lifetime of electronic consumer durables. By fully understanding how the consumers make replacement decisions, the decisions people make can be influenced. It turns out that as a product moves towards the expected lifetime, the perceived value of the product goes down, and the consumer is less likely to take care of the product or repair it when it breaks. Consequently, this project investigates how to increase the expected lifetime of products. This contributes to the Premature Obsolescence Multistakeholder Product Testing Program (PROMPT). PROMPT is working on a test program to assess the lifetime of products from a technical, user, and market perspective. The formulated assignment is to generate design guidelines that help to improve the expected product lifetime and illustrate this on a case example. The products that will be investigated are washing machines, televisions, vacuum cleaners, and smartphones. Two studies were performed. One qualitative study to get more insights in an explorative way, and a quantitative study to measure the most effective way to increase the expected lifetime. From the first study, it was concluded that people determine the expected lifetime at several moments throughout the lifetime of the product. Also, past experiences with the product, the average lifetime, the amount of warranty and expected change in demographics are factors that were considered by the participants while determining th, Strategic Product Design

Dutch cities are both expanding and densifying, corresponding to a global trend in which people increasingly tend to live in cities. Urban densification implicates the development of new buildings and redevelopment of part of the existing building stock, to meet the aims of future cities and their populations. These alterations to intensively used urban spaces will evoke resistance from involved stakeholders. As such, this research aims to identify strategies to design buildings without resistance, by studying resistance throughout all phases of a building process and determining the power of architects in coping with these resistances. These strategies enable architects to design and develop buildings of non-resistance. Firstly, the most recurring definition of resistance is that it is an action that is executed against an opposition. The effect of resistance, in the degree of intention, visibility and recognition, varies. This study distinguishes between overt resistance, in which intention and recognition are clearly delineated, and everyday resistance, which cannot be clearly defined, which is often invisible, and not well articulated. The elaboration of resistance in the built environment is shaped by means of a focus group and several expert interviews. Outcomes are that resistance is inseparably linked to the built environment and shapes projects. The interviewee faced both overt resistance and everyday resistance. The strategy that interviewee applied, in response to resistance, can be divided into two categories. Intended strategy, where certain emerging resistances are solved from experience, protocols and premeditation and Emergent strategy, where mostly from an ad-hoc situation is responded to. Intended strategies for an architect to deal with resistance is mainly focused on existing, overt resistances. Where everyday resistance is often forgotten. Where a solution is often sought reactively. This research makes a proposal, City of the Future

This research-by-design project provides designers with new strategies to design for sustained well-being.Positive activities have been proposed as the most promising starting point to improve well-being (Wiese et al., 2020). Currently, 14 activities have been identified (Lyubomirsky, 2007; Wiese et al., 2019). Avoiding overthinking and learning to forgive were chosen to design for in this project, as few existing products meaningfully support people in engaging in these activities. The Vision in Design approach (Hekkert & van Dijk, 2011) was applied to construct future world views of both activities, in order to create meaningful design goals. Two design strategies were developed for both activities and evaluated by PhD candidates and a design practitioner. This concluded that the strategies meet most of the requirements of a strategy (Wiese et. al., 2020), and could support designers. Recommendations to improve the strategies were composed and presented in the report. The conducted research and developed strategies contributed to existing knowledge by showing how designers can promote sustained well-being on an activity level. Further research should be conducted with more designers to evaluate the strategies’ usefulness in practice more extensively., Design for Interaction

Keeping a healthy work/life balance can be a daunting task in today’s overstimulated society. For many of us, a regular day can feel like running on a treadmill. This results in fast, restricted and shallow breathing throughout the day. Whereas, the right breathing rhythm can have a profound impact on our (mental) well being and overall happiness. It is argued that habituating deep breathing exercises is a promising solution to increase stress resilience. This explorative study aims to find a productisable solution for habituating breathwork meditation. The proposed solution (Sensescape) is supported with a novel, yet ‘grounded’ theory. The working principle of the product is validated with several small scale user tests and experiments. Furthermore, market potential was explored via market analysis, business modelling and strategic roadmapping. It is argued that Sensescape is able to differentiate itself from the competition by building a closed-loop-system in horizon 2 and a focus on first-responders in horizon 3. A brand identity was crafted based on those insights. Sensescape, is a handheld meditation device to guide breathing, through haptic and light feedback. Soothing vibrations will bounce between two handheld pulsators, to orchestrate the right breathing pattern. This will help you to ‘get out of your head’ and unwind from everyday stress. On top of that, the immersive tactile effect will naturally grab your attention and sustain focus during a meditative session. An extensive literature review was performed on the areas of neural entrainment, tactile vibrations, rumination and the art of breathing. These areas formed the foundation for the building of the novel grounded-theory. It was found that; bilateral tactile phantom sensations lead to easy neural entrainment. This phenomenon is exploited in the working principle of the product to create a natural point of focus. The physical sensations will help disrupt negative thought flow. Through some experimenta, Strategic Product Design

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur modeföretag jobbar med hållbar produktutveckling och design och vad det finns för vidare utvecklingsmöjligheter. Genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie ska studien bidra med en sammanställning och diskussion kring hur företag kan implementera hållbarhet i produktutvecklingsprocessen. Uppsatsen skrivs på svenska. Metod: Genom en kvalitativ och deduktiv ansats har empiriska data samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra produktutvecklande modeföretag. Metoden valdes för att ge rum för utvecklade svar från informanterna vilket skapade förutsättningar för en sammanställning och diskussion kring hur modeföretag kan implementera hållbarhet i produktutvecklingsprocessen och design. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Den tidigare forskningen involverar forskning kring tre övergripande ämnen. Det första ämnet är begreppet hållbarhet med fokus på det ekologiska perspektivet. Det andra ämnet är hållbara designstrategier, som inkluderar teorierna “Cradle to Cradle”, Eco-Design, Life Cycle Assessment samt de hållbara designstrategierna inom Design for Environment. Det tredje och sista ämnet rör designens funktion i relation till hållbarhet. Resultat och slutsatser: Resultatet visar att samtliga företag uppfattar hållbarhetsbegreppet som brett och delvis abstrakt. Detta visar sig genom företagens olika sätt att tillämpa hållbarhet via de hållbara designstrategierna. Denna skillnad är däremot också ett resultat av företagens olika identiteter och produkter. Däremot, de strategier som generellt implementerades var materialval, val av produktionsland, kvalitetsfokus och tidlös design. Studien har även undersökt vilka utvecklingsmöjligheter som finns, vilket visat att företagens tillämpning av hållbara designstrategier i högre grad borde grunda sig i en mer noggrann ekologisk utvärdering. Detta för att ge ett tydligare resultat kring vad som är “mest” hållbart för varje individuellt företag, samt hur hållbarhet kan appliceras på det sät, Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate how fashion companies work with sustainable product development and design, and their opportunities for further development within the area. Through a qualitative interview study the investigation will contribute to a synthesis and discussion about how companies can implement sustainability in the product development process. The paper is written in Swedish. Method: Through a qualitative and deductive approach, empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with four product-developing fashion companies. The method was chosen to make room for the informants to give more complex answers, which created prerequisites for a synthesis and discussion about how fashion companies can implement sustainability in the product development process and design. Theoretical perspective: The scientific research involves research within three general subjects. The first subject is the concept of sustainability, with focus on the environmental perspective. The second subject is sustainable design strategies, which includes the theories “Cradle to Cradle”, Eco-Design, Life Cycle Assessment and the sustainable design strategies within Design for Environment. The third and last subject concerns the function of the design in relation to sustainability. Results and conclusions: The results show that all companies perceived the concept of sustainability as wide and partly abstract. This appears through the companies’ different ways of applying sustainability via the sustainable design strategies. However, this difference in application is also a result of the different identities and products of the companies. Yet, the strategies which were found generally implemented are choice of material, choice of production country, quality focus and timeless design aesthetic. The study has also investigated the companies’ opportunities for further development within the area, which showed that the companies’ applications of

The tambos are small buildings that function as social platforms in Peruvian rural areas to provide essential services to the entire vulnerable and dispersed rural population. The Peruvian government intends to implement more than a thousand new tambos in the national territory. However, this social infrastructure program faces heterogeneous conditions and demands according to Peru’s geographical and population complexity. This article proposes developing a systematic catalog of modular components as a design strategy for the architectural approach of future tambos. Georeferenced data and climate design guidelines were used to conduct this study. As a result, the systematic catalog synthesizes critical variables such as natural regions and programmatic requirements to generate diverse architectural configurations of the new tambos. Therefore, these future buildings would be optimally articulated in different areas of influence under a systematic vision of the Peruvian rural territory., Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::11 - Ciutats i Comunitats Sostenibles, Postprint (author's final draft)

The initial goal of this graduation project was to find a way to establish a reliable digital relationship with PostNL’s consumer. This is considered an important part of a digital transformation strategy that is necessary for traditional postal companies to stay relevant in a digital era. One of the main challenges of this digital era, relevant for PostNL, is the increasing uncertainty of knowing who one is dealing with online. This assignment focuses on the idea of implementing a digital identity (eID) that can be used during digital and physical encounters with PostNL and is able to provide the desired certainty to ensure a more safe and seamless service. Thereby the focus during this project is especially on how this digital identity can be established, with whom and which certainties are absolutely necessary for doing so. Digital identities that enable a consumer to prove who he or she is online, can exist out of multiple attributes that define this (online) user. Worldwide these digital identities are increasingly being adopted by companies active in multiple service industries, including LSPs. However, this does not mean that companies can simply request all kinds of data from their consumers to confirm the needed attributes. With regard to regulations including those concerned with privacy (GDPR), they are required to keep data processing to a minimum and are therefore only allowed to request data that is absolutely necessary. For PostNL, it was found that sufficient desired certainty would be possible to be established by personal validation or address validation. Although consumers do see PostNL as a reliable party (the most reliable within the Netherlands), they do not seem to be willing to (digitally) share sensitive personal information such as a picture of their ID with PostNL. Address validation on the other hand does not require too much personal information about an individual but does provide the assurance that that individual has a high probabilit, Strategic Product Design

Dutch cities are both expanding and densifying, corresponding to a global trend in which people increasingly tend to live in cities. Urban densification implicates the development of new buildings and redevelopment of part of the existing building stock, to meet the aims of future cities and their populations. These alterations to intensively used urban spaces will evoke resistance from involved stakeholders. As such, this research aims to identify strategies to design buildings without resistance, by studying resistance throughout all phases of a building process and determining the power of architects in coping with these resistances. These strategies enable architects to design and develop buildings of non-resistance. Firstly, the most recurring definition of resistance is that it is an action that is executed against an opposition. The effect of resistance, in the degree of intention, visibility and recognition, varies. This study distinguishes between overt resistance, in which intention and recognition are clearly delineated, and everyday resistance, which cannot be clearly defined, which is often invisible, and not well articulated. The elaboration of resistance in the built environment is shaped by means of a focus group and several expert interviews. Outcomes are that resistance is inseparably linked to the built environment and shapes projects. The interviewee faced both overt resistance and everyday resistance. The strategy that interviewee applied, in response to resistance, can be divided into two categories. Intended strategy, where certain emerging resistances are solved from experience, protocols and premeditation and Emergent strategy, where mostly from an ad-hoc situation is responded to. Intended strategies for an architect to deal with resistance is mainly focused on existing, overt resistances. Where everyday resistance is often forgotten. Where a solution is often sought reactively. This research makes a proposal, City of the Future

This research-by-design project provides designers with new strategies to design for sustained well-being.Positive activities have been proposed as the most promising starting point to improve well-being (Wiese et al., 2020). Currently, 14 activities have been identified (Lyubomirsky, 2007; Wiese et al., 2019). Avoiding overthinking and learning to forgive were chosen to design for in this project, as few existing products meaningfully support people in engaging in these activities. The Vision in Design approach (Hekkert & van Dijk, 2011) was applied to construct future world views of both activities, in order to create meaningful design goals. Two design strategies were developed for both activities and evaluated by PhD candidates and a design practitioner. This concluded that the strategies meet most of the requirements of a strategy (Wiese et. al., 2020), and could support designers. Recommendations to improve the strategies were composed and presented in the report. The conducted research and developed strategies contributed to existing knowledge by showing how designers can promote sustained well-being on an activity level. Further research should be conducted with more designers to evaluate the strategies’ usefulness in practice more extensively., Design for Interaction

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 recycle (The World Bank, 2021), is an increasing concern and an opportunity for improvement. In this project, the problem of premature obsolescence is addressed. The project investigates how to increase the lifetime of electronic consumer durables. By fully understanding how the consumers make replacement decisions, the decisions people make can be influenced. It turns out that as a product moves towards the expected lifetime, the perceived value of the product goes down, and the consumer is less likely to take care of the product or repair it when it breaks. Consequently, this project investigates how to increase the expected lifetime of products. This contributes to the Premature Obsolescence Multistakeholder Product Testing Program (PROMPT). PROMPT is working on a test program to assess the lifetime of products from a technical, user, and market perspective. The formulated assignment is to generate design guidelines that help to improve the expected product lifetime and illustrate this on a case example. The products that will be investigated are washing machines, televisions, vacuum cleaners, and smartphones. Two studies were performed. One qualitative study to get more insights in an explorative way, and a quantitative study to measure the most effective way to increase the expected lifetime. From the first study, it was concluded that people determine the expected lifetime at several moments throughout the lifetime of the product. Also, past experiences with the product, the average lifetime, the amount of warranty and expected change in demographics are factors that were considered by the participants while determining th, Strategic Product Design

Keeping a healthy work/life balance can be a daunting task in today’s overstimulated society. For many of us, a regular day can feel like running on a treadmill. This results in fast, restricted and shallow breathing throughout the day. Whereas, the right breathing rhythm can have a profound impact on our (mental) well being and overall happiness. It is argued that habituating deep breathing exercises is a promising solution to increase stress resilience. This explorative study aims to find a productisable solution for habituating breathwork meditation. The proposed solution (Sensescape) is supported with a novel, yet ‘grounded’ theory. The working principle of the product is validated with several small scale user tests and experiments. Furthermore, market potential was explored via market analysis, business modelling and strategic roadmapping. It is argued that Sensescape is able to differentiate itself from the competition by building a closed-loop-system in horizon 2 and a focus on first-responders in horizon 3. A brand identity was crafted based on those insights. Sensescape, is a handheld meditation device to guide breathing, through haptic and light feedback. Soothing vibrations will bounce between two handheld pulsators, to orchestrate the right breathing pattern. This will help you to ‘get out of your head’ and unwind from everyday stress. On top of that, the immersive tactile effect will naturally grab your attention and sustain focus during a meditative session. An extensive literature review was performed on the areas of neural entrainment, tactile vibrations, rumination and the art of breathing. These areas formed the foundation for the building of the novel grounded-theory. It was found that; bilateral tactile phantom sensations lead to easy neural entrainment. This phenomenon is exploited in the working principle of the product to create a natural point of focus. The physical sensations will help disrupt negative thought flow. Through some experimenta, Strategic Product Design

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur modeföretag jobbar med hållbar produktutveckling och design och vad det finns för vidare utvecklingsmöjligheter. Genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie ska studien bidra med en sammanställning och diskussion kring hur företag kan implementera hållbarhet i produktutvecklingsprocessen. Uppsatsen skrivs på svenska. Metod: Genom en kvalitativ och deduktiv ansats har empiriska data samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra produktutvecklande modeföretag. Metoden valdes för att ge rum för utvecklade svar från informanterna vilket skapade förutsättningar för en sammanställning och diskussion kring hur modeföretag kan implementera hållbarhet i produktutvecklingsprocessen och design. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Den tidigare forskningen involverar forskning kring tre övergripande ämnen. Det första ämnet är begreppet hållbarhet med fokus på det ekologiska perspektivet. Det andra ämnet är hållbara designstrategier, som inkluderar teorierna “Cradle to Cradle”, Eco-Design, Life Cycle Assessment samt de hållbara designstrategierna inom Design for Environment. Det tredje och sista ämnet rör designens funktion i relation till hållbarhet. Resultat och slutsatser: Resultatet visar att samtliga företag uppfattar hållbarhetsbegreppet som brett och delvis abstrakt. Detta visar sig genom företagens olika sätt att tillämpa hållbarhet via de hållbara designstrategierna. Denna skillnad är däremot också ett resultat av företagens olika identiteter och produkter. Däremot, de strategier som generellt implementerades var materialval, val av produktionsland, kvalitetsfokus och tidlös design. Studien har även undersökt vilka utvecklingsmöjligheter som finns, vilket visat att företagens tillämpning av hållbara designstrategier i högre grad borde grunda sig i en mer noggrann ekologisk utvärdering. Detta för att ge ett tydligare resultat kring vad som är “mest” hållbart för varje individuellt företag, samt hur hållbarhet kan appliceras på det sät, Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate how fashion companies work with sustainable product development and design, and their opportunities for further development within the area. Through a qualitative interview study the investigation will contribute to a synthesis and discussion about how companies can implement sustainability in the product development process. The paper is written in Swedish. Method: Through a qualitative and deductive approach, empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with four product-developing fashion companies. The method was chosen to make room for the informants to give more complex answers, which created prerequisites for a synthesis and discussion about how fashion companies can implement sustainability in the product development process and design. Theoretical perspective: The scientific research involves research within three general subjects. The first subject is the concept of sustainability, with focus on the environmental perspective. The second subject is sustainable design strategies, which includes the theories “Cradle to Cradle”, Eco-Design, Life Cycle Assessment and the sustainable design strategies within Design for Environment. The third and last subject concerns the function of the design in relation to sustainability. Results and conclusions: The results show that all companies perceived the concept of sustainability as wide and partly abstract. This appears through the companies’ different ways of applying sustainability via the sustainable design strategies. However, this difference in application is also a result of the different identities and products of the companies. Yet, the strategies which were found generally implemented are choice of material, choice of production country, quality focus and timeless design aesthetic. The study has also investigated the companies’ opportunities for further development within the area, which showed that the companies’ applications of

The eccentric-wing flutter stabilizer is a passive aerodynamic device for raising the flutter speed of a bridge. It consists of wings running parallel to the bridge deck. In contrast to similar devices proposed in the past, the wings do not move relative to the bridge deck and they are positioned outboard the bridge deck to achieve a greater lateral eccentricity. This enables the wings to produce enough aerodynamic damping to effectively raise the flutter speed. A comprehensive parametric flutter analysis study is presented in which both the properties of the bridge and the configuration of the wings are varied. The bridge properties and the wing configuration are each summarized in four non-dimensional quantities. The parameter space within which these numbers are varied are determined on the basis of previous work and the structural properties of actual long-span bridges. As for the wind forces, a streamlined bridge deck contour is assumed. The main interest of this study is the relative flutter speed increase due to the wings. This and other non-dimensional results are presented in diagrams and discussed. Both multi-degree-of-freedom and generalized two-degree-of-freedom flutter analyses are performed. Torsional divergence is addressed. A strategy for choosing a cost-efficient wing configuration is suggested.

Many non-profit organizations (NPO’s) in the Netherlands have lost a large amount of donors over the last years. This thesis explores the use of behavioural influence design, applied in an online solution, in order to improve donor engagement for the well-known NPO WWF. The thesis focuses at creating long-term engagement with donors in the age class between 18 and 35. People in this target group want to be flexible when it comes to making donations, want their own impact to be specific and tangible and rather take action themselves, in a personal and individual manner, when it comes to environmental goals. Furthermore, this is an age group that is very active online, especially on social media, which is interesting for the online solution space. As WWF-NL wants to create a society-wide movement, showing people that there are more ways to contribute to their mission for a sustainable society, beyond donating (like adjusting sustainable behaviour or investing time), it seemed an interesting opportunity to improve engagement with this group and connect with them on the common interest of contributing beyond donations. With the help of literature and successful exemplar cases on engagement, guidelines haven been created for improving the different levels of engagement (cognitive, emotional and behavioural) in relation to the target group. Also, the field of behavioural economics, which assumes the irrational thinking and decision making processes of human beings, has been explored to see how behavioural influence design could be applied to improve the (different levels of) engagement. The conclusion of this exploration is that behavioural influence design should not (just) be implemented in the smaller details of online expressions; it should be part of the broader strategy, where it is used to improve individual (in this case sustainable) behaviour of the target group. Again, with exemplar cases and literature, guidelines for improving engagement with the help of behav, Strategic Product Design

Many non-profit organizations (NPO’s) in the Netherlands have lost a large amount of donors over the last years. This thesis explores the use of behavioural influence design, applied in an online solution, in order to improve donor engagement for the well-known NPO WWF. The thesis focuses at creating long-term engagement with donors in the age class between 18 and 35. People in this target group want to be flexible when it comes to making donations, want their own impact to be specific and tangible and rather take action themselves, in a personal and individual manner, when it comes to environmental goals. Furthermore, this is an age group that is very active online, especially on social media, which is interesting for the online solution space. As WWF-NL wants to create a society-wide movement, showing people that there are more ways to contribute to their mission for a sustainable society, beyond donating (like adjusting sustainable behaviour or investing time), it seemed an interesting opportunity to improve engagement with this group and connect with them on the common interest of contributing beyond donations. With the help of literature and successful exemplar cases on engagement, guidelines haven been created for improving the different levels of engagement (cognitive, emotional and behavioural) in relation to the target group. Also, the field of behavioural economics, which assumes the irrational thinking and decision making processes of human beings, has been explored to see how behavioural influence design could be applied to improve the (different levels of) engagement. The conclusion of this exploration is that behavioural influence design should not (just) be implemented in the smaller details of online expressions; it should be part of the broader strategy, where it is used to improve individual (in this case sustainable) behaviour of the target group. Again, with exemplar cases and literature, guidelines for improving engagement with the help of behav, Strategic Product Design

Concrete is one of the most used and energy-demanding materials in the world and unfortunately it is currently not being used optimally, while it has a long lifespan and the potential to be reused. Also, because the Netherlands has the ambition to build 1 million houses by 2030, it offers the opportunity to tackle the concrete in the Dutch housing sector and apply the concept of reuse and standardization. This study aims to contribute to a more sustainable built environment and to provide a design tool on how to design a sustainable and reusable concrete facade system. Through literature study and analyses of case studies, the most important design criteria have been set up that focuses on the aspects of building efficiency, standardization, sustainability and adaptability. The three main strategies that have been used that summarize these criteria and form the final design strategy are: Rethink, Reduce and Reuse. The process begins with Rethink. Firstly, designing the facade system for repeated use, through standardization, and finding the best suitable dimensions for the facade system. Secondly, by increasing its functional flexibility and adaptability by designing it for multiple uses and target audiences. The second strategy, Reduce, helps the design to reduce waste, material and CO2 emissions. Firstly, by researching how to make concrete more sustainable. Secondly, by building lightweight through the use of a lightweight shape and material, such as lightweight aggregate concrete. At last, the strategy of Reuse will come into play where modularity forms the basis for a reusable design that focuses on the building efficiency by means of the concept of design for disassembly. As a result, these strategies conclude in a final design strategy that consists of a decision chart that guides the architect or client and offers multiple options for building systems. This enables the architect or client to have design freedom while providing an easy guide tha, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Design

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate a top-level topology for ultra-accurate power supplies. Chapter 3 shows that precision power supplies exist, but these are expensive and not stable on the long term. The correction scheme proposed in chapter 2 brings the accuracy of the best metrology systems to a high efficiency, low-noise power sup-ply at a lower cost than either the multimeter capable of such accuracyor the power supply capable of such low noise.Whether this is possible hinges on the orthagonality of the top-level design. Separation of functionality should allow each component to have fewer or even only one selection criterium to perform its function. This greatly reduces the cost and design complexity. To verify the theory behind top-level design, the critical parts are designed with available components and tested. This should reveal any practical limitations which may render the approach useless in a realistic scenario., Electrical Engineering | Microelectronics

Success doesn’t come by following the beaten track, by following in the footsteps of the great visionaries of the past. No, success comes to those who dare to think differently, who dare to challenge and to do the unexpected. Starting a new brand requires this mindset, because only those who dare to think differently succeed. Back in 2018, Automobili Pininfarina was founded as a new luxury car manufacturer bearing one of the most celebrated and revered names in the industry: Pininfarina. A design house known for their iconic masterpieces. Starting a new brand with such a famous and recognizable name is a beautiful opportunity, but also a risky operation. Paving the way for Automobili Pininfarina brand success, that was the goal of this thesis done in collaboration with the new Italian luxury car manufacturer. A new brand strategy and vision needed to be developed, hence the brief for this project was as follows: “Create a design driven brand strategy, delivering a brand vision for the year 2025.” This graduation project focused on analyzing the company’s existing brand strategy and compares that with external influences that create opportunities for the brand to grow. The synthesis of this is a brand vision for the year 2025. Based on this vision, a proposal for the visual identity of the new brand strategy is made, including a roll-out plan for implementation and further development. The steps provided are forming the roadmap that paves the way for Automobili Pininfarina brand success., Strategic Product Design

Transitioning to a circular economy requires designing products that are meant to remain within and cycle through economic systems. While circular product design principles have been applied across industries, the medical industry presents unique challenges with its complex regulatory requirements and the high-risk nature of innovating with medical products. This thesis aims to contribute to the implementation of circular design strategies in the medical industry by developing a tool to that will enable industry professionals to apply these strategies in practice. Research areas included exploring circular product design principles and strategies in literature, design considerations relevant for medical products, and current industry practices, which contributed to developing the tool. Academic literature was first synthesised and used to structure the subsequent review of industry practices, which involved synthesising and analysing a range of data sources such as interviews, company reports and webpages, industry reports and relevant regulations. A draft tool was developed based on these reviews and refined based on practitioner feedback. The final tool aims to facilitate discussions between stakeholders involved in the design process of medical products and engage them in formulating and implementing circular design strategies. Evaluation of the tool and feedback from practitioners indicates that it adds great value in challenging existing processes and influencing practitioners to consider alternative methods. Medical product safety will continue to be highly regulated, but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have clearly demonstrated the interlinkages between planetary and human health. The medical industry has the potential to redesign products to safeguard natural resources without compromising patient safety. The tool developed in this thesis proposes a method to considering industry-specific characteristics in this pursuit.

With increasing environmental damage, passive architectural design strategies, particularly natural ventilation strategies, are essential techniques for architectural design to protect the environment. In order to improve human comfort and the health of the living environment, spaces for human activities are no longer bounded primarily by closed, indoor artificial spaces and have extended to open, semi-indoor naturally ventilated spaces. Singapore, located in the tropics, has a unique climate where the attention of the Singapore government to natural ventilation indicators in green building decision making, and application of natural ventilation tropical architecture, can be seen. This paper analyses the development of evaluation contents related to natural ventilation in the Singapore green building standard – Green Mark, studies typical naturally ventilated buildings and then proposes effective design strategies. The relationship between standards and cases are finally discussed to explore the differences from theory to practice, with a view to using suitable approaches and methods to encourage natural ventilation design, thus promoting the green building movement and achieving sustainability.

Transitioning to a circular economy requires designing products that are meant to remain within and cycle through economic systems. While circular product design principles have been applied across industries, the medical industry presents unique challenges with its complex regulatory requirements and the high-risk nature of innovating with medical products. This thesis aims to contribute to the implementation of circular design strategies in the medical industry by developing a tool to that will enable industry professionals to apply these strategies in practice. Research areas included exploring circular product design principles and strategies in literature, design considerations relevant for medical products, and current industry practices, which contributed to developing the tool. Academic literature was first synthesised and used to structure the subsequent review of industry practices, which involved synthesising and analysing a range of data sources such as interviews, company reports and webpages, industry reports and relevant regulations. A draft tool was developed based on these reviews and refined based on practitioner feedback. The final tool aims to facilitate discussions between stakeholders involved in the design process of medical products and engage them in formulating and implementing circular design strategies. Evaluation of the tool and feedback from practitioners indicates that it adds great value in challenging existing processes and influencing practitioners to consider alternative methods. Medical product safety will continue to be highly regulated, but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have clearly demonstrated the interlinkages between planetary and human health. The medical industry has the potential to redesign products to safeguard natural resources without compromising patient safety. The tool developed in this thesis proposes a method to considering industry-specific characteristics in this pursuit.

Concrete is one of the most used and energy-demanding materials in the world and unfortunately it is currently not being used optimally, while it has a long lifespan and the potential to be reused. Also, because the Netherlands has the ambition to build 1 million houses by 2030, it offers the opportunity to tackle the concrete in the Dutch housing sector and apply the concept of reuse and standardization. This study aims to contribute to a more sustainable built environment and to provide a design tool on how to design a sustainable and reusable concrete facade system. Through literature study and analyses of case studies, the most important design criteria have been set up that focuses on the aspects of building efficiency, standardization, sustainability and adaptability. The three main strategies that have been used that summarize these criteria and form the final design strategy are: Rethink, Reduce and Reuse. The process begins with Rethink. Firstly, designing the facade system for repeated use, through standardization, and finding the best suitable dimensions for the facade system. Secondly, by increasing its functional flexibility and adaptability by designing it for multiple uses and target audiences. The second strategy, Reduce, helps the design to reduce waste, material and CO2 emissions. Firstly, by researching how to make concrete more sustainable. Secondly, by building lightweight through the use of a lightweight shape and material, such as lightweight aggregate concrete. At last, the strategy of Reuse will come into play where modularity forms the basis for a reusable design that focuses on the building efficiency by means of the concept of design for disassembly. As a result, these strategies conclude in a final design strategy that consists of a decision chart that guides the architect or client and offers multiple options for building systems. This enables the architect or client to have design freedom while providing an easy guide tha, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Design

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate a top-level topology for ultra-accurate power supplies. Chapter 3 shows that precision power supplies exist, but these are expensive and not stable on the long term. The correction scheme proposed in chapter 2 brings the accuracy of the best metrology systems to a high efficiency, low-noise power sup-ply at a lower cost than either the multimeter capable of such accuracyor the power supply capable of such low noise.Whether this is possible hinges on the orthagonality of the top-level design. Separation of functionality should allow each component to have fewer or even only one selection criterium to perform its function. This greatly reduces the cost and design complexity. To verify the theory behind top-level design, the critical parts are designed with available components and tested. This should reveal any practical limitations which may render the approach useless in a realistic scenario., Electrical Engineering | Microelectronics

Success doesn’t come by following the beaten track, by following in the footsteps of the great visionaries of the past. No, success comes to those who dare to think differently, who dare to challenge and to do the unexpected. Starting a new brand requires this mindset, because only those who dare to think differently succeed. Back in 2018, Automobili Pininfarina was founded as a new luxury car manufacturer bearing one of the most celebrated and revered names in the industry: Pininfarina. A design house known for their iconic masterpieces. Starting a new brand with such a famous and recognizable name is a beautiful opportunity, but also a risky operation. Paving the way for Automobili Pininfarina brand success, that was the goal of this thesis done in collaboration with the new Italian luxury car manufacturer. A new brand strategy and vision needed to be developed, hence the brief for this project was as follows: “Create a design driven brand strategy, delivering a brand vision for the year 2025.” This graduation project focused on analyzing the company’s existing brand strategy and compares that with external influences that create opportunities for the brand to grow. The synthesis of this is a brand vision for the year 2025. Based on this vision, a proposal for the visual identity of the new brand strategy is made, including a roll-out plan for implementation and further development. The steps provided are forming the roadmap that paves the way for Automobili Pininfarina brand success., Strategic Product Design

Many non-profit organizations (NPO’s) in the Netherlands have lost a large amount of donors over the last years. This thesis explores the use of behavioural influence design, applied in an online solution, in order to improve donor engagement for the well-known NPO WWF. The thesis focuses at creating long-term engagement with donors in the age class between 18 and 35. People in this target group want to be flexible when it comes to making donations, want their own impact to be specific and tangible and rather take action themselves, in a personal and individual manner, when it comes to environmental goals. Furthermore, this is an age group that is very active online, especially on social media, which is interesting for the online solution space. As WWF-NL wants to create a society-wide movement, showing people that there are more ways to contribute to their mission for a sustainable society, beyond donating (like adjusting sustainable behaviour or investing time), it seemed an interesting opportunity to improve engagement with this group and connect with them on the common interest of contributing beyond donations. With the help of literature and successful exemplar cases on engagement, guidelines haven been created for improving the different levels of engagement (cognitive, emotional and behavioural) in relation to the target group. Also, the field of behavioural economics, which assumes the irrational thinking and decision making processes of human beings, has been explored to see how behavioural influence design could be applied to improve the (different levels of) engagement. The conclusion of this exploration is that behavioural influence design should not (just) be implemented in the smaller details of online expressions; it should be part of the broader strategy, where it is used to improve individual (in this case sustainable) behaviour of the target group. Again, with exemplar cases and literature, guidelines for improving engagement with the help of behav, Strategic Product Design

There are various strategies to control complexity and variety growth in ETO businesses. Such portfolio rationalization initiatives sometimes stall. This paper elaborates on the challenges that cause this. Challenges described in literature and challenges seen in five different industry cases are consolidated. The challenges are combined into groups and presented in the ADKAR change management model. The authors intend this list to be used for guidance In industry and expect the collection to be extended with future industry cases and challenges.

Transitioning to a circular economy requires designing products that are meant to remain within and cycle through economic systems. While circular product design principles have been applied across industries, the medical industry presents unique challenges with its complex regulatory requirements and the high-risk nature of innovating with medical products. This thesis aims to contribute to the implementation of circular design strategies in the medical industry by developing a tool to that will enable industry professionals to apply these strategies in practice. Research areas included exploring circular product design principles and strategies in literature, design considerations relevant for medical products, and current industry practices, which contributed to developing the tool. Academic literature was first synthesised and used to structure the subsequent review of industry practices, which involved synthesising and analysing a range of data sources such as interviews, company reports and webpages, industry reports and relevant regulations. A draft tool was developed based on these reviews and refined based on practitioner feedback. The final tool aims to facilitate discussions between stakeholders involved in the design process of medical products and engage them in formulating and implementing circular design strategies. Evaluation of the tool and feedback from practitioners indicates that it adds great value in challenging existing processes and influencing practitioners to consider alternative methods. Medical product safety will continue to be highly regulated, but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have clearly demonstrated the interlinkages between planetary and human health. The medical industry has the potential to redesign products to safeguard natural resources without compromising patient safety. The tool developed in this thesis proposes a method to considering industry-specific characteristics in this pursuit.

Transitioning to a circular economy requires designing products that are meant to remain within and cycle through economic systems. While circular product design principles have been applied across industries, the medical industry presents unique challenges with its complex regulatory requirements and the high-risk nature of innovating with medical products. This thesis aims to contribute to the implementation of circular design strategies in the medical industry by developing a tool to that will enable industry professionals to apply these strategies in practice. Research areas included exploring circular product design principles and strategies in literature, design considerations relevant for medical products, and current industry practices, which contributed to developing the tool. Academic literature was first synthesised and used to structure the subsequent review of industry practices, which involved synthesising and analysing a range of data sources such as interviews, company reports and webpages, industry reports and relevant regulations. A draft tool was developed based on these reviews and refined based on practitioner feedback. The final tool aims to facilitate discussions between stakeholders involved in the design process of medical products and engage them in formulating and implementing circular design strategies. Evaluation of the tool and feedback from practitioners indicates that it adds great value in challenging existing processes and influencing practitioners to consider alternative methods. Medical product safety will continue to be highly regulated, but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have clearly demonstrated the interlinkages between planetary and human health. The medical industry has the potential to redesign products to safeguard natural resources without compromising patient safety. The tool developed in this thesis proposes a method to considering industry-specific characteristics in this pursuit.