Design for Sustainability
Design for Sustainability (DfS) is one of the leading research groups on design for sustainability in the world. Our mission is to make design for sustainability a natural part of the everyday practice of all industrial designers, and to help create, through design, a lasting positive impact on the world.
Research themes
Bio-manufacturing
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Circular Economy
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Packaging
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Refurbishment
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Sustainable Behaviours
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Sustainable Consumption
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Sustainable Production
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Transitions
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Food Systems
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Sustainable Production
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Transitions
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Food Systems
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Design research will increasingly direct its attention to living materials that can sense, respond, adapt and eventually die. This requires a fundamental change in the way we understand materials in design. The new flagship Biodesign Lab researches and develops new materials.
The new flagship Biodesign Lab will be researching and developing new materials in the state of the art lab. The construction work has resumed after a concise Summer recess, and the Biodesign Lab team can start preparing for research and development activities in their new quarters.
News and Updates
- [TO BE UPDATED BY LOVELY SUSTAINABILITY COLLEAGUE SARA]
- [March 29, 2022] | In the spotlight: Dr. Achilleas Psyllidis. Read here.
- [February 1, 2022] | The creative breeding ground of Delft Design Labs. Imagine a research environment fuelled by creativity, where people from different disciplines and varying levels of expertise collaborate, seeking new insights and solutions that can change the world. That is what you’ll find in the Delft Design Labs, a theme-based research platform at the TU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) that brings researchers, students and external partners together to find innovative solutions to the complex challenges of our time. Read more here.
- [January 13, 2022] | A small research grant (€135,000) has been granted by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities on Urban Digital Twins. Roy Bendor from IDE is one of the project team members as well, along with Jess Bier (Sociology, EUR), Thomas Swerts (Sociology, EUR), and Carola van Eijk (Public Administration, LU). Read more here.
