Research

design.for.empowerment

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design.sustainability

The lens .sustainability is concerned with the negative consequences arising from industrial production and product design. It investigates and experiments with new ways to bring about a more sustainable future by engaging in various co-design activities.

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design.industry

design.industry carries out multidisciplinary applied research on the design for new digital and/or bio-based processes, personalized, changing and scalable production systems

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Learning Lab

In our Learning Lab, we exchange knowledge on teaching and learning methods and offer training to industry and academic partners by implementing design-based methodologies, such as the Design Thinking methodology and game-based learning.

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Bio-Makerspace

The Bio-Makerspaceis a new creative space where students and companies learn to apply the basic principle of Design for a Circular Economy by making prototypes and experimenting with DIY, bio-based and circular materials.

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Computational Design & Fabrication Lab

In this lab, we explore and combine the latest digital design techniques with digital production techniques. We explore these digital techniques in order to identify opportunities for new designs.

Digital Design Tools Lab

In our Digital Design Tools lab, we investigate how to use existing digital tools such as Virtual Reality as efficiently as possible in the design process.

Product Design Lab for New Industrial Production (Industry 5.0)

In our Product Design Lab for new industrial production, we will look at how to design products and product systems so that they can be easily and efficiently produced in the manufacturing companies of today and tomorrow. 

Medical Product Design Lab

In our Medical Product Development lab, in addition to technical aspects, we also investigate the interactions with patients, doctors, nurses, etc. with the aim of designing the most optimal medical product system. 

BUILDING BASED on BIOBASED (BBoBB)

A leap of scale in Building Based on Biobased, that's our aim!

In the BBoBB project, 16 partners across five countries in the North Sea region work together to design, develop and strengthen value chains for the use of biobased materials. In our partnership all parts of the value chain are represented.

We believe that the transition to a circular economy is an important means of working on climate challenge, with the prospect of new business models. Therefore, the use of biobased materials in construction (built environment, interior construction and civil engineering) offers a unique opportunity which we want to seize.

Let's work on a circular economy together!

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