In 2023, the Netherlands is strategic partner of the Business of Design Week held in Hong Kong, with Circular Design as the central theme. One of the objectives of this partnership is to foster enduring international cooperation. As an initial step towards future collaborative efforts, the Network Applied Design Research (NADR) made an inventory of the current state of Circular Design Research in the Netherlands. This publication represents the results of this effort. Inside, readers will fin...

Met elk van onze individuele acties, hoe klein ook, veranderen wij mensen de samenstelling van het aardoppervlak en de atmosfeer.

Zolang het ecosysteem van onze Aarde de effecten hiervan kon verwerken en een dynamisch evenwicht kon bewaren rond een evenwichtstoestand die wij mensen als prettig ervaren, was dat geen probleem. Echter, met onze massale collectieve industriële activiteiten belasten wij sinds de eerste Industriële Revolutie onze Aarde op een manier die momenteel het corrigerend ...

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. This new edition (first self-published by the TU Delft) contains new examples and insights from recent publications. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold, it disappears beyond the newness horizon. They are little aware of the opportunities that exist in the next product universe, where money is made from products in use, as well as from a product’s after...

This thesis argues that in order to increase the likelihood that product lifetime extension in a circular economy will be successful from both an environmental and an economic perspective, industrial designers need to be able to control not only the spatial dimension (materialization and geometry) of products, but also their temporal dimension. This temporal dimension is related to the number and duration of product use cycles and the duration of the total product lifetime. To enable industri...