Academic design research often fails to contribute to design practice. This dissertation explores how design research collaborations can provide knowledge that design professionals will use in practice. The research shows that design professionals are not addressed as an important audience between the many audiences of collaborative research projects. The research provides insight in the learning process by design professionals in design research collaborations and it identifies opportunities for even more learning. It shows that design professionals can learn about more than designing, but also about application domains or project organization.
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The design and mission requirements of aero vehicles, which vary on a day-to-day basis, have become major study concerns in the burgeoning aviation sector. In addition to the design and mission criteria that must be met in an aero vehicle design, the designers' primary goals are to construct original, innovative, environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient, and sustainable designs. In this study, a detailed conceptual design of a helicopter that does not need a notable runway for operation and is limited by mission and design requirements is offered. Within the scope of this research, a competitor analysis study was undertaken in accordance with the defined criteria, and design approaches were chosen based on the outcomes of competitor analysis. In addition, this research, which looks for an environmentally friendly and sustainable design, was developed with the aviation industry's demands in mind by analyzing the International Helicopter Safety Team's (IHST) data. As a result of the reports analyzed and considering the causes and consequences of accidents that have happened, the objective of the design research was to achieve a sustainable, ecologically friendly, and fuel-efficient design by reducing the number of accidents and damage. The planning and design processes as a result of this examination are essential as a step towards the helicopter being an original design and in the context of solution methodologies. This archetypal design aims to shed light on helicopter design studies and serve as a roadmap for future research.
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Toekomstige professionals moeten complexe problemen kunnen oplossen. Hoeleren we dit hbo-studenten? Design thinking en ontwerpgericht onderzoek bieden beiden dezelfde logica voor het ontwerpen van onderbouwde oplossingenvoor complexe problemen. Ze verschillen in accent, met name in inhoudelijke uitgangspunten en de organisatie van het ontwerpproces. Zowel design thinkingals ontwerpgericht onderzoek zijn geschikt voor het oplossen van complexeproblemen, zeker als hun sterke punten in opeenvolgende ontwerpcycli wordengecombineerd.
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Chemical preservation is an important process that prevents foods, personal care products, woods and household products, such as paints and coatings, from undesirable change or decomposition by microbial growth. To date, many different chemical preservatives are commercially available, but they are also associated with health threats and severe negative environmental impact. The demand for novel, safe, and green chemical preservatives is growing, and this process is further accelerated by the European Green Deal. It is expected that by the year of 2050 (or even as soon as 2035), all preservatives that do not meet the ‘safe-by-design’ and ‘biodegradability’ criteria are banned from production and use. To meet these European goals, there is a large need for the development of green, circular, and bio-degradable antimicrobial compounds that can serve as alternatives for the currently available biocidals/ preservatives. Anthocyanins, derived from fruits and flowers, meet these sustainability goals. Furthermore, preliminary research at the Hanze University of Applied Science has confirmed the antimicrobial efficacy of rose and tulip anthocyanin extracts against an array of microbial species. Therefore, these molecules have the potential to serve as novel, sustainable chemical preservatives. In the current project we develop a strategy consisting of fractionation and state-of-the-art characterization methods of individual anthocyanins and subsequent in vitro screening to identify anthocyanin-molecules with potent antimicrobial efficacy for application in paints, coatings and other products. To our knowledge this is the first attempt that combines in-depth chemical characterization of individual anthocyanins in relation to their antimicrobial efficacy. Once developed, this strategy will allow us to single out anthocyanin molecules with antimicrobial properties and give us insight in structure-activity relations of individual anthocyanins. Our approach is the first step towards the development of anthocyanin molecules as novel, circular and biodegradable non-toxic plant-based preservatives.
Actuele vraagstukken zoals klimaatverandering, plastic soep en toekomstige schaarste van fossiele grondstoffen zijn hedendaagse onderwerpen die ook zijn invloed beginnen te hebben op consumentengedrag. Verpakkingen zijn de laatste decennia een belangrijk onderwerp in de maatschappelijke bewustwording omtrent duurzaamheid, hernieuwbare grondstoffen en circulair gebruik. Papier en kunststof zijn de meest gebruikte verpakkingsmaterialen. De MKB partners in BioKLEUR merken ook een toenemende vraag naar biobased materialen en zien kansen om nieuwe markten te creëren voor hun producten, vooral als er een mogelijkheid is de materialen 100% biobased te maken. Het probleem dat de MKB-partners belemmert om de 100 % biobased materialen te produceren is dat op de markt biobased kleurstoffen zeer beperkt beschikbaar zijn en indien beschikbaar voldoen ze niet aan de kwaliteitscriteria gesteld voor toepassingen in papier en kunststof. Daarom zijn de synthetische kleurstoffen momenteel de enige oplossing. Omdat synthetische kleuren zo stabiel zijn, zijn ze niet afbreekbaar in het milieu. De stoffen zijn ook vaak toxisch en samen met de stabiliteit ontstaat er een cumulatief effect. Dit zelfde probleem gaat ontstaan wanneer deze synthetische kleurstoffen in biologisch afbreekbaar verpakkingsmateriaal worden gebruikt en in het milieu terecht komen. Natuurlijke kleurstoffen zijn een mogelijke oplossing. Het project wordt uitgevoerd door Avans Hogeschool in samenwerking met Stenden hogeschool, NRK -Branchevereniging , Waterschap Brabanse Delta en 11 MKB partners in biobased producten, innovatie en design. Het project zal leiden tot verdieping in en gebruiksklaar maken van kennis over natuurlijke kleuren en de toepassingsmogelijkheden in papier en kunststof en sterk bijdragen aan het doel van de deelnemende MKB-partners en de behoefte van de maatschappij om tot de 100 % biobased en milieuvriendelijke producten te komen.
The energy transition is a highly complex technical and societal challenge, coping with e.g. existing ownership situations, intrusive retrofit measures, slow decision-making processes and uneven value distribution. Large scale retrofitting activities insulating multiple buildings at once is urgently needed to reach the climate targets but the decision-making of retrofitting in buildings with shared ownership is challenging. Each owner is accountable for his own energy bill (and footprint), giving a limited action scope. This has led to a fragmented response to the energy retrofitting challenge with negligible levels of building energy efficiency improvements conducted by multiple actors. Aggregating the energy design process on a building level would allow more systemic decisions to happen and offer the access to alternative types of funding for owners. “Collect Your Retrofits” intends to design a generic and collective retrofit approach in the challenging context of monumental areas. As there are no standardised approaches to conduct historical building energy retrofits, solutions are tailor-made, making the process expensive and unattractive for owners. The project will develop this approach under real conditions of two communities: a self-organised “woongroep” and a “VvE” in the historic centre of Amsterdam. Retrofit designs will be identified based on energy performance, carbon emissions, comfort and costs so that a prioritisation strategy can be drawn. Instead of each owner investing into their own energy retrofitting, the neighbourhood will invest into the most impactful measures and ensure that the generated economic value is retained locally in order to make further sustainable investments and thus accelerating the transition of the area to a CO2-neutral environment.
Lectoraat, onderdeel van NHL Stenden Hogeschool
