The Circular Industries Talks are organized every second Wednesday at the Circular Industries Hub. In this edition, Ruud Balkenende, Professor of Circular Product Design at the faculty of Industrial Engineering at TU Delft), talks about designing products for a circular economy. Curious for more? Take a look at the recording at the bottom of this page.
Creating by design multiple lifecycles for products and materials is a necessity."
In the presentation on ‘Circular Products: Rethinking Design’, Ruud provides a brief overview of the position of design in realizing circular strategies and then discusses two topics in more depth: repair and biobased materials. Repair is a topic where over the past years we have gained a lot of insight, where we have developed clear guidelines for design for repair, and where we are able to assess repairability based on the product architecture, without the need for testing. Biobased materials, on the other hand, is a topic where we are still early on the learning curve, not even close to definite answers, but a very important topic to get right given the need to get rid of petrochemical plastics. Our research on biobased plastics aims to tackle the lack of knowledge of designers on properties, biodegradation, and end-of-life recovery.
Curious about the whole story? Listen to Ruud Balkenende in the Circular Industries talks.
The Circular Industries talks
The goal of the Circular Industries talks is to share knowledge across Leiden, Delft and Erasmus and to complement and deepen the knowledge already available within the Circular Industries Hub. The talks are organized on Wednesday morning from 10:00 to 11:00. The talks are online (Microsoft Teams).