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On Friday 11 May the Bachelor graduation ceremony will take place at the Van der Grinten hall. This will be done in two sessions, starting at 12:45 and at 16:15.
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In occasion of his visit to the TU Delft on Friday May 11, John McCann will give a colloquium on the topic: “HDR appearance pathway: From scene to retinal image to receptors to neural contrast”. The colloquium is going to be held in the Shannonzaal (10th floor of EWI) and will start at 11:00.
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On Monday 7 May Robert Jan de Boer will defend his PhD thesis "Seneca's error: An affective model of cognitive resistance". 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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Professor Imre Horvath is co-chairman of the TMCE 2012 Symposium d in May. At this symposium ‘Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering’ many colleagues of our faculty are involved in the organisation or will be present as speaker.
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From 7 to 24 May, the education exhibition ‘Inspiring IDE(A)’ will be displayed in the central hall of the IDE building. The exhibition includes a selection of courses from our Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes. This exhibition is intended for our own students and staff. Everyone is welcome to attend the official opening on 7 May at 12.45.
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Networked innovation is a specific form of open innovation, where two or more companies collaborate as partners and share risks and gains throughout an innovation project.
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On 27 April, the New Retail Symposium will take place at the TU Delft Aula. Keynote speakers are Gordon Campbell, Mike Cooper and Arno Twigt. At this symposium, prof. Rodney Fitch CBE will held his inaugural lecture as professor Retail Design.
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On Thursday 26 April, the Research Lecture will be given by Jelle Joustra. The topic of his lecture will be 'Thermal optimization of competitive sailing gear'.
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In this lecture Conny Bakker will explain the different ‘design for sustainable behaviour’ strategies, using examples from recent research.
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From 18 till 20 April the 2nd European Conference on Sports Innovation will take place at our faculty. This international conference provides a forum for research organisations, companies, sports organisations and national contact points active in the field of sports, sporting goods and sports innovation from all over Europe to exchange information, to present new information, to discuss the...
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Jack Sim, the founder of the World Toilet Organization, will visit Delft University of Technology on Friday the 13th of April. In honour of this visit, a mini-symposium is held to showcase progressive sanitation research done by the university.
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On Thursday, April 5, the Research Lecture will be given by Melda Janse (Industrial Design Engineering), the title of her lecture is 'Preferences of adolescent girls for an outdoor (sports) meeting point'
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Kees van Gorsel of AIM bv will give a lecture ' Rules & regulations; Blessing or Burden? ' about quality marks for medical products. Good products also mean safe products, especially in medicine or other critical domains. To guarantee product safety for patient and medical staff, rules & regulations come into play.
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On Thursday, March 29, the Research Lecture will be given by Bas Flipsen (Industrial DesignEngineering), the title of the lecture is 'Regenerative braking, is it worth it?'
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Several universities are participating in the e-Skills College Tour. As part of this programme, an interactive interview with Theo Rinsema, the CEO of Microsoft Nederland, will take place at our faculty in the Van der Grinten hall during the lunch break on Thursday 29 March.
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On Friday 23 March 2012, a symposium will take place at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, called: 'The Essence of COOL'. This symposium is organized to take a close-up look at the phenomenon of ‘coolness’. After all, whether it comes to people, products or buildings, some are cool, others are not.
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During the lunch Tine Lavrysen (European Smarcos project) will present a research lecture. The title of her lecture is: How the cloud will change your life (as a designer, but also as a human being).
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For the third time Krashna Musika organizes a series of lunchtime concerts on the faculties of TU Delft. The lunch concert at our faculty will take place in studio 23/24 on Monday 19 March during the lunch break. Would you like to participate, please contact Krashna. Just want to listen, please come and enjoy.
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Wednesday March 14th Pezy Product Innovation will give a lunch lecture about their vision on product development. The lecture is organized by Study Association i.d
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On Friday 17 February André Neumann will defend his PhD thesis "Designerly Ways of Sharing". The defense will take place at 12.30hr in the Senaat room of the TU Delft Aula and the Laymen’s talk starts at 12.00.
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Thursday 16 February a Network Event will take place at the central hall of the Faculty of IDE.Together with i.d-Profession, a committee of Study Association i.d, a network drink will be organized for both IO Alumni and students. There will be a number of speakers who will explain the importance of networking. In addition the principle of the IO coaches will be explained.
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Kick-off of the course Advanced Embodiment Design (AED)
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At the start of this year professor Jan Jacobs will leave our faculty. On Friday 3 February, a surprise program will be held in the Van der Grinten Hall starting at 13.00.
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On Wednesday evening 1 February TOP organizes in cooperation with Delft Design a debate on the development of the creative sector, including Pieter Guldemond (alderman Delft) and Bart Ahsmann (valorisation IDE). Interested parties are welcome in TOP Delft, Hippolytusbuurt 14 at 20.30.
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In the hall of Industrial Design Engineering, the end results of the minor Interactive Environments will be exhibited. The course is about how to make engaging and beautiful interactive spaces.
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The floppy tower is a work of art and a landmark for all who behold it. At first glance it looks like any other tower, but when the wind blows the tower moves back and forth. Wim Schermer and a team of students constructed the tower from nine cube-shaped segments, which are suspended from the corners by cables to create movement in the construction.
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Oscar Brocades Zaalberg gives a lecture about Additive manufacturing (3D printing), as part of the course Industrial Production.
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On Tuesday 13 December Sebastian Denef will defend his PhD thesis "Firefighting on the First Line of Intervention - a Pattern language to inform the design of Ubiquitous Computing". The defense will take place at 12.30hr in the Senaat room of the TU Delft Aula and the Laymen's talk starts at 12.00hr.
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At Thursday 8 December an alumni drink will be held at design studio Booreiland. During this drink Booreiland will present their upcoming book Meta Products - Meaningful Design For Our Connected World.
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The design documentary produced by Erik Roscam Abbing and Robert Zwamborn from Zilver Innovation and directed by 6 SPD master students will be presented and screened at its home-base, the Industrial Design Faculty of TU Delft. Erik and the directors will share their experience and present the full documentary. Afterwards there will be drinks at i.d-Kafee.
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This talk will cover experiences with the role that design plays in various sized organizations, the advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized functions and some prerequisites for designers to be successful in a corporate environment will be covered.
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Friday 2 December at 11.00 in the Wim Crouwel room Dianne McMullin will give a presentation about the Dreamliner, the newest Boeing 787. The design process was fully user centered (from pilot, to mechanic and passenger).
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Are you planning to start on one of TU Delft’s Master’s programmes in the next academic year, and would you like to know more about the opportunities available? Then come to the Master Event, the Master’s information day on Tuesday 22 November 2011.
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On Friday 18 November Oscar Person will defend his PhD thesis " The strategic relevance of styling and the management of design styles". The defense will take place at 10.00hr in the Senaat room of the TU Delft Aula and the Laymen’s talk starts at 9.30.
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‘Design for Usability’ research project presents practical tools for user-centred design on World Usability Day.
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On Monday 7 November 2011, TEDxDelft will take place, based on the so-called TED Talks.
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On Tuesday, 1 November the Advanced Prototyping Fair will be held in the ‘Kuil’. There will be demonstrations of the research by the Advanced Prototyping Minor students (Jouke Verlinden). Everyone is welcome at 13.00.
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Rethink Relief is a five-day workshop dedicated to rethink the role of technology in the transition between short-term relief and long-term sustainable development. The goal is to provide an extraordinary chance to interact with worldwide experts from diverse fields and together start up an active community.
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On Wednesday 26 October the symposium Design as Service will take place during the Dutch Design week in Eindhoven.
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For the occasion of their book ‘Sketching; The Basics’ publishing the authors Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur will give a master class sketching for designers during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. This master class is on 23 October and open for public.
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The MTs of the three faculties of Industrial Design at the Universities of Technology in Delft, Eindhoven and Twente have decided to intensify the cooperation. To this end we will found Design United as the Platform for Dutch Research in Design.
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On 23 June there is another Alumni drink at the innovation agency SunIdee. The theme of this evening is ‘consumer insights’: in a short presentation we will explain what consumer insights are and what their role is in innovation projects. Followed by drinks!
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Thursday 16 June the first in a series of lectures from renowned energy entrepreneurs will take place. Ron Runneboom will be the first with his vision on CO2 and the bio based economy, hereafter Luuk van der Wielen will react on this. Ad van Wijk will be the chair of the day in the lecture, which starts at 16.30 in the Joost van Grinten hall.
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On Tuesday 14 June Marijke Melles will defend her PhD thesis "Role-based support in intensive care nursing: a designer's perspective". The defense will take place at 10.00 at the Science Centre down the Mijnbouwstraat.
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