Projects
Blurring the lines between materials design and structural design: Advanced microstructural design of structural fibre-reinforced composites. KU Leuven
Many breakthroughs in traditional materials have been achieved through time-consuming and expensive trial-and-error. To develop the next generation of lightweight composites, a paradigm shift is needed to catalyse their adoption in industry and address current drawbacks. Rather than accepting that the microstructure is a consequence of the manufacturing process, I envision that we should aim to design the microstructure to optimally satisfy ...
Culture, Ageing & Design: Integrating culture and wellbeing in housing design theories for old age (CAD-project) Hasselt University
Responsible Design: conscious, ecological, ethical and inclusive design AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Safety by natural design: benign bisphenols from biomass KU Leuven
Synthetic polymers are crucial in maintenance of our high standard of living. While delivering many benefits, our current plastics economy has also led to one of the greatest environmental scourges of our time. Plastic pollution is now widespread and leads to substantial chemical exposure to humans and the environment. Within this context, especially endocrine-disrupting chemicals with high production volumes, such as bisphenols, are a major ...
Universal Design and design practice: universal design patterns as a model and support for designing integrally and inclusively for all. Hasselt University
How do disabled architects design? Exploring the potential of embodiment in architectural design KU Leuven
Designers of products, software, buildings and environments increasingly involve users in the design process. This tendency demonstrates the need for new ways of designing, which attempt to restore the feedback loop between processes of design and practices of use that got interrupted since the industrial revolution. This restoring remains limited, however: even if users are involved in design, designers cannot gain direct access to their ...
Open-ended Design for Bio-materials in Design Education Ghent University
Today sustainability becomes an urgent decision-guiding objective. Yet it is not clear how sustainable societies should look like and therefore the role of design becomes critical.
The general goal of the study I here propose, which will take place in form of PhD within the research group design.nexus in continuity with my PhD and postdoctoral work, is to further explore meta-theoretical development as well as applied-theoretical ...