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On Thursday 31 May, Prof. Larry Leifer from Stanford University will give a research lecture at our faculty with the title “Dancing with Ambiguity. Design thinking in action, theory from practice.” The research lecture will take place from 15:45 to 17:00 in the Van der Grinten hall.
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“We share a passion for user-centered product and service design, and aim to better understand how to design artifacts that support individual and societal well-being.” That is how Thomas Visser and Pieter Jan Stappers describe what ID-StudioLab is all about in the May/June issue of ACM Interactions, one of the most important trade magazines. You can download the whole article below.
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Friday June 1, the seventh ZOMERfestival will be held on the Sport & Culture site. Tickets are still available for what will be a massive jubilee edition. Experience the musical summer in Delft!
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Vodafone has recently presented a telephone contract for deaf persons, which allows them to use an interpreter. This was a graduation project of Sietse Vis, Master student Strategic Product Design. His supervisor was Johan Molenbroek.
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Linda Kester has won the Dewis Award with her PhD thesis ‘New Product Development Portfolios: Identifying the antecedents and consequences of decision-making processes’. The DEWIS award for excellence is intended to reward the quality of the thesis of a young female scientist at the TU Delft.
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During the "Design Challenge" module at the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship in 2010, Jill Roelofs, Tristan Weevers and Moniek Zweers worked on Zifra, a digital seat numbering system. Casala Meubelen Nederland has now received a Red Dot Award for Zifra.
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Dr. Maria Sääksjärvi received the 2011 Marvin Jolson Award for Best Contribution to Selling and Sales Management Practice, for the article entitled “Management Practices in Solution Sales - A Multilevel and Cross-Functional Framework”. Maria was one of the three authors of the article.
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The IDE Alumni association has created a LinkedIn group for IDE Alumni. Currently another – unofficial - IDE Alumni group is active on LinkedIn, which is not supported by the TU Delft, the IDE faculty and the IDE Alumni association. We recommend to discard the unofficial group.
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DfI Master student Jitske Menting has been interviewed by a local TV station about her graduation project called ‘de Straathoek’ (The Street Corner), a meeting place for the Blijdorp neighbourhood in Rotterdam.
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On Monday 21 May Irene Kamp will defend her PhD thesis "Comfortable Car Interiors - Experiments as a basis for car interior design contributing to the pleasure of the driver and passengers". The defense will take place at 15.00 in the Senaat room of the TU Delft Aula and the Laymen’s talk starts at 14.30.
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In the article on material scarcity David Peck, assistant professor Reliability and Durability, notes that the realization that some commodities are scarce, barely penetrated to designers.
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The recordings that have been made in our faculty early April have been broadcasted and can now be watched online.
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