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28 NOV 2024 | Tech & Design Event

28 NOV 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Welcome to this week’s Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for an evening of inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Anne van Strien – Sparking Natural and Regenerative Leadership and Maarten van Schijndel – Innovating...

21 NOV 2024 | Tech & Design Event

21 NOV 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Welcome to this week's Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us to get inspired by the inclusive perspective of Simon Dogger & Nephtaly Aniceta and how they team up combining technology and design. What inclusive experiences for individuals with...

14 NOV | City Vision Event

14 NOV | City Vision Event

Let’s create multi-functional infrastructure simultaneously with the expansion of Eindhoven. Such as roads that are servicing their environment, by becoming climate adaptive or even regenerative ecosystems. Meet Fien Dekker (Rain(a)Way) and Stan Kerkhofs (RWS, Low...

7 NOV | Tech & Design Event

7 NOV | Tech & Design Event

Untold numbers of technical and design solutions have been created to fuel the Art of Meeting. But how do we get people together for real? At a level that creates meaningful connections rather than haphazard gatherings? Meet breakthrough facilitator Ferdy Gilsing...

24 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

24 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

How does Silphium Perfoliatum (Silphy) empower both bees and building materials? And Flax? How can their untapped potential revolutionize sustainable industries? Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café, featuring Simone van Es (Roots Foundation) and Linde...

17 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

17 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

How can technology and design empower your sensory experience to unlock creativity and well-being? Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café, featuring Dzera Kaytati (Maaind) and Zheyuan Zhang (Studio Inneract), both creating personalized, immersive...

10 OCT 2024 | City Vision Event

10 OCT 2024 | City Vision Event

Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café. Join us to discuss the future vision of our city over drinks and networking, featuring 'Love your problem, not your solution' professor Walter Baets (Wicked Problems Officer at Eindhoven Engine), Ankita Durani and Joseph Zekry...

3 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

3 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Beatrix Bos, Impact Creator of Eindhoven startup Carbyon and the designers they work with: Joshua Holetz, Lotte Wigman & Joram...

31 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

31 OCT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Special edition: a personal tour by Annemoon Geurts, founder of Kazerne and curator of the exhibition Human = Non-Human. Welcome to the EHV Innovation Café, a unique weekly event designed to connect, inspire, and empower innovators, entrepreneurs, and visionaries in...

26 SEPT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

26 SEPT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Welcome to this Thursdays Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring TU/e Team Casa (Energy Transition within the Built Environment) and Nieuw Zwanenburg (Growing Bio-Based Materials for...

19 SEPT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

19 SEPT 2024 | Tech & Design Event

Are you ready to be part of a revolutionary networking experience? Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café – Tech and Design event! Join us for an evening of inspiration, drinks, and networking, featuring Cocosmos (experts in co-creation & participation...

12 SEPT 2024 | City Vision Event

12 SEPT 2024 | City Vision Event

Welcome to the Eindhoven Innovation Café. Join us to discuss the future vision of our city over drinks and networking, featuring Urban Developer Hans van Rossum (Realconomy) and Designers Kiki&Joost. We are also excited to announce that Eindhoven start-up and 2024...

EIC | 20 APRIL

EIC | 20 APRIL

Giant pouched rats are currently being trained by the non-profit company APOPO to find victims of disasters like earthquakes. However, when a rat has found a victim there is still no way to know what the position of the victim is. Utilizing previous work on...

EIC | 13 APRIL

EIC | 13 APRIL

Due to climate change, Dutch summers are getting hotter. Ironically, this is leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions because a growing number of households install artificial cooling. While cooling is not the only or even most effective way of staying...

EIC | 6 APRIL

EIC | 6 APRIL

Humanity altered 70% of earth’s land and exploited every part of the ecosystem, but what is giving back to this ecosystem? We are wasting so many valuable resources because humans are just too good to be a material. Nature does not waste anything, only humans do. Is...

EIC | 30 MARCH

EIC | 30 MARCH

Smart stickers that change colour in response to temperature can serve as visual indicators. Useeble is developing the technology that enables the monitoring of temperature exposure. The applications of this technology range from healthcare processes such as...

EIC | 23 MARCH

EIC | 23 MARCH

Construction with earth-based materials – an age-old tradition which was neglected until recently – is experiencing revival across the globe. The use of earth-based materials reduces more environmental impact than most other conventional building materials. In this...

EIC | 16 MARCH

EIC | 16 MARCH

What is the connection between creativity and technology? What makes light such an attractive design medium?  That is what Team IGNITE is exploring. Team IGNITE is the first student team to focus on art and technology and through their light...

EIC | 9 MARCH

EIC | 9 MARCH

Water is the base of nearly everything in live: our health, nature, farming, and recreation. The availability of enough clean water looks to be obvious but isn’t anymore. Climate change in the Netherlands leads to droughts and floods. As citizens we can contribute...

EIC | 2 MARCH

EIC | 2 MARCH

As a renowned Dutch Designer, Studio Tijs Guilty is now setting up a design brand in North Carolina. Questions raised for this: How do we decide what Dutch Design is? And how does it fit within the local challenges the city of High Point faces? Tijs Gilde‘s...

EIC | 23 FEBRUARY

EIC | 23 FEBRUARY

Building Dialogue opens a playful space for participatory discussions and the exchange of different perspectives on contemporary ecological and social challenges.  The game emphasises the importance of collective reimagining and reshaping the future during...

EIC | 16 FEBRUARY

EIC | 16 FEBRUARY

Testing over 40000 biological specimen has proven the Superformula to be a superior model for the natural sciences. The shapes described by this Superformula, a.k.a. Gielis Transformations, are found everywhere: in nature from the very small to the very...

EIC | 9 FEBRUARY

EIC | 9 FEBRUARY

The rapid development of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines has demonstrated the tremendous potential of nucleic acid therapeutics. In this talk, Roy van der Meel will highlight how nanotechnology is enabling next generation RNA therapeutics for therapeutic gene...

EIC | 2 FEBRUARY

EIC | 2 FEBRUARY

3D printing is a set of techniques that have so far revolutionized the manufacturing of unique or small series of objects, and the fast link between computer design and physical object have aided prototyping work in many industries. But what if we told you that the...

EIC | 26 JANUARY

EIC | 26 JANUARY

Sodalime makes high tech materials to create unique and mesmerizing art objects. What possibilities does Dichroic glass offer? And how do you position a business like this?  At the end of 2021, Ruud Groeneveld en Carissa ten Tije founded...

EIC | 19 JANUARY

EIC | 19 JANUARY

Not all solar models are made equal: low carbon content, circularity, elimination of PFAS and absence of forced labor supply chains are key to a sustainable solar module. Solarge has developed solar modules that fulfill all of the above. On top of that, they...

EIC | 12 JANUARY

EIC | 12 JANUARY

After a little winter break EHV Innovation Café is all refreshed and ready for 2023. Join us for a drink to welcome the new year! During this edition, we would like to start off by looking forward to new possibilities, to a new season of inspiring talks,...

EIC | 15 DECEMBER

EIC | 15 DECEMBER

After two years of a global pandemic, lockdowns, flexibility and resilience we are getting back into our routine. During covid, businesses often asked: what will happen after Covid? It was very difficult to say. And now, did things really change? Claudia...

EIC | 1 DECEMBER

EIC | 1 DECEMBER

Growing up with a chronic disease can be hard. Having to deal with complicated day to day logistics and being distinctly different from healthy peers is a reality for children and young adults diagnosed with a chronic disease. Peer understanding and awareness of what...

EIC | 8 DECEMBER

EIC | 8 DECEMBER

Museums are non-profit organizations with the aim of educating, engaging and sharing knowledge to the community. However, sometimes it isn’t easy to understand the message they are trying to share. Does everyone understand the underlying message? From the outside,...

EIC | 24 NOVEMBER

EIC | 24 NOVEMBER

In what ways can music, science and technology come together? Tonight we explore these themes from a personal point of view. Steven Henry delves into the route he took until were he is now in his professional life. The presentation will be supplemented with short...

EIC | 17 NOVEMBER

EIC | 17 NOVEMBER

Luxury provokes emotions – ranging from jealousy to desire – it manifests itself in ostantative expressions of status while it is taboo for others. Are you interested in exploring innovation, luxury, and impact. Luxury can play a powerful role not only in fashion but...

EIC | 10 NOVEMBER

EIC | 10 NOVEMBER

The urgency of plastic as an environmental problem is clear, but at the same time we can hardly imagine a world without plastic. See the applications in the medical field, in the field of electricity, in cars and planes and in household appliances. So we have to start...

EIC | 3 NOVEMBER

EIC | 3 NOVEMBER

Big data and AI create inequalities. It puts historically marginalized people, like ethnic minorities, and womxn, at a disadvantage. Because AI and checking on AI require plenty of data, usually only giant corporations, the wealthiest governments, and university...

EIC | 27 OCTOBER

EIC | 27 OCTOBER

Prototyping 2040 is a vision of four prototypes for western civilisation in 2040. To create the prototypes, the FutureS Thinking team critically analysed thousands of signals of change. The prototypes revolve around issues of social, economic and environmental...

EIC | 20 OCTOBER

EIC | 20 OCTOBER

Imagine a world of fluid fashion: what does it take to keep clothes purely digital? When should we connect the digital to the physical production and what are the challenges? Flora Miranda is an artist and fashion designer based in Antwerp and Vienna. After graduating...

EIC | 13 OCTOBER

EIC | 13 OCTOBER

Heat is a basic need. What we currently largely obtain from gas, is already available in the form of industrial residual heat from industry, data centres and horticulture. Cellcius Heat Battery Technology makes the utilisation of this waste heat possible. With this...

EIC | 6 OCTOBER

EIC | 6 OCTOBER

Beauty, and how it is experienced is a radical act of self-care and brings people together, both physically and digitally. Superficiality is a creative outlet and tool that is important to the design process. How can we explore our identities by using cosmetic data?...

EIC | 29 SEPTEMBER

EIC | 29 SEPTEMBER

More than 20% of the population loses one hour of sleep because of the blue wavelength, which deregulates our biological system. The aim of Time as Light is to reconnect humans with their natural element: the sunset. And to create an empathetic relationship with our...

EIC | 22 SEPTEMBER

EIC | 22 SEPTEMBER

How can we use the dynamics created at the coating surfaces for robotic applications? Danqing Liu and her research team propose the use of liquid crystal polymer networks for soft robotics where the various molecular accessories are assembled in the two dimensions of...

EIC | 15 SEPTEMBER

EIC | 15 SEPTEMBER

The land we live on, with its specific natural resources and habitat and the connections we’ve built with it throughout generations broadly define our identity and sense of belonging. Project Home(land) uses authentic Ukrainain crafts, knowledge of our grandmother on...

EIC | 8 SEPTEMBER

EIC | 8 SEPTEMBER

How do we experience changes in the digital era and how do these changes influence our perspective and the way we experience the world culturally? In the talk, Guy Bar-Sinai will take you through his personal experience and the thought process that gave birth to his...

EIC | 1 SEPTEMBER

EIC | 1 SEPTEMBER

In order to think about what life is like at old age, What if Lab commissioned Studio Anne Ligtenberg to create a card game in collaboration with Actiz, wherein participants can put themselves in the shoes of an eldery person. The goal of the game is to start an open...

EIC | 28 JULY

EIC | 28 JULY

Grief is universal, yet the way we process it is far from that. The well documented behavioral patterns of loss can dramatically differ between individuals. Can we extract symbolic objects and actions, from personal stories of loss, in order to support those who...

EIC | 21 JULY

EIC | 21 JULY

Dynaxion is developing a new generation scanning system for non-invasive and fully automated substance identification for security purposes. The device accurately scans parcels and suitcases for drugs, explosives and other dangerous and illicit goods. Cor Datema is...

EIC | 14 JULY

EIC | 14 JULY

Good Neighbours is an award-winning immersive storytelling project about neighbourhood surveillance weaving together performance, technology and placemaking. It explores how communities create spaces of belonging and alienation through mobile platforms like WhatsApp...

EIC | 7 JULY

EIC | 7 JULY

Robots are increasingly being used to teach children to count or to learn a (second) language. However, the introduction of robots in education poses new (moral) challenges. How do we deal with privacy, children who see robots as friends and secrets they tell the...

EIC | 30 JUNE

EIC | 30 JUNE

What if the quality of life were central to designing mobility? If it were to make a positive contribution to the environment? Or if the aim was to prevent transport movements? It is time to correct the design error of the last century, in which the car was central to...

EIC | 23 JUNE

EIC | 23 JUNE

The most common renewable energy sources, solar and wind electricity, are intermittent. The storage of energy in batteries, is therefore an essential link in localizing and democratizing access to electricity. To reach the deployment level necessary for the Paris...

EIC | 16 JUNE

EIC | 16 JUNE

With a brief historical reflection, Hans Robertus will offer insight into the steps taken in the maturing process of the design field. His presentation focuses on the growth opportunities ahead of us, with an emphasis on possibilities to increase the impact of design...

EIC | 9 JUNE

EIC | 9 JUNE

Mentech uses the technology HUME to improve the quality of life of vulnerable people. The HUME is used in intramural care to provide an early warning when clients with a severe intellectual disability or late-stage dementia have a buildup of stress. The company...

EIC | 2 JUNE

EIC | 2 JUNE

Arabidopsis Symphony, a project developed by Fillip Studios, tells the story of a small plant; the Arabidopsis Thaliana. Open to new influences, it is in every life cycle being confronted with new obstructions and challenges. But still it connects to these new...

EIC | 26 MAY

EIC | 26 MAY

To create more involvement in the making process, Eva Jagerman transformed the automatic knitting machine into a human-driven device. By enlarging the working elements, the technique that is usually hidden becomes visible. Teamwork is required to let the wooden...

EIC | 19 MAY

EIC | 19 MAY

STRP festival 2022 edition marked the beginning of a new era for STRP, exploring the relationship between art, technology, and major societal issues with a broad programme, moving between various locations of Eindhoven. In this way, the festival invites a broader...

EIC | 12 MAY

EIC | 12 MAY

This Thursday, the Kazerne Design Award 2022 took place. Unfortunately, this was only for a selected audience live, but the event was available via Youtube. Missed this edition? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Rewatch the edition here:...

EIC | 5 MAY

EIC | 5 MAY

By empowering people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve more, Hable is working towards a world in which everybody has access to the same information. Every person that is blind should have the ability to grasp the same benefits of the smartphone as anyone...

EIC | 28 APR

EIC | 28 APR

Did you know pirates used to extend their ability to sail by having a parrot that could sense when a storm was coming? What if we can create modern day parrots for modern day pirates? By doing research on human augmentation, Team HART tries to improve existing senses...

EIC | 21 APR

EIC | 21 APR

The legal system is a human design that also designs and acts on us: the legal codes become internalised and absorbed by the collective body. With an academic background in both law and design, Viktória Kaslik explores how meaning can be made through artistic...

EIC | 14 APR

EIC | 14 APR

In a design landscape where we have been moving away from focus on the product toward more holistic approaches and experiences, connectedness is omnipresent. Human experiences are not stand-alone events, nor are humans stand-alone entities. If the purpose of design is...

EIC | 7 APR

EIC | 7 APR

How can a home contribute to the regeneration of the water system? Most homes extract high-quality drinking water for low-value applications such as flushing toilets, and discharge used water (with all kinds of important nutrients) to the sea as quickly as possible....

EIC | 31 MAR

EIC | 31 MAR

The future of Social label lies in ‘being’, and in surrounding ourselves with design with meaning. With this positive activism, initiators Petra Janssen (Studio Boot) and Simone Kramer (C-mone) are forging a growing inclusive movement with a socially sustainable...

EIC | 24 MAR

EIC | 24 MAR

BIOTRIP is an entrepreneurial engine working to create efficiency, rigor and scale to empower leading scientists in immunotherapy drug development. This privately held company is supported by an experienced team of industry experts and international investigators to...

EIC | 17 MAR

EIC | 17 MAR

Lusoco is an innovative Dutch deep-tech start-up that is developing a platform technology using highly fluorescent inks, solar cells, energy management and smart electronics. This will eventually be used for a wide variety of applications, like off-grid and energy...

EIC | 10 MAR

EIC | 10 MAR

Una Paloma Blanca teaches languages the fun, fast and efficient way with innovative and creative methods to engage and help students to improve their language skills as quickly and effectively as possible. In this workshop, we will run through the projects of Una...

EIC | 3 MAR

EIC | 3 MAR

Dutch Design Awards looks at how design relates to Dutch society in the broadest sense of the word: economically, socially, culturally and in terms of content. Large and small issues in and outside the Netherlands call for a new, relevant design approach and give rise...

EIC | 24 FEB

EIC | 24 FEB

Together with our guest Mary-Ann Schreurs, we will explore what Dutch Design is and the role it has in Eindhoven, as well as what Dutch Design Week and Dutch Design Foundation mean for it. The running theme for the night will be: Dutch Design. Back to the future!...

EIC | 17 FEB

EIC | 17 FEB

The fashion industry is under scrutiny for exploiting people and resources. LABELEDBY. is convinced that technological innovation can contribute significantly to address these abuses. It can replace arrows labour with automation, reduce waste with smaller-scale,...

EIC | 11 FEB

EIC | 11 FEB

There is no blueprint to redesign our natural cultural world in a more humane and sustainable way. And because of the entanglement of all people, animals, plants and objects, the task is extremely complex. We know we need a radical change, but how? Between No-Longer...

EIC | 3 FEB

EIC | 3 FEB

Rob Adams, curator of the Embassy of Mobility presents the trend research commissioned by this embassy in 2020. The research tells about the global influence of Corona on mobility. Adams will also elaborate on how they translated the report to the Embassy Labs (design...

EIC | 27 Jan

EIC | 27 Jan

Atelier Scheldeman focuses on the practice-oriented sculptural architecture where design and implementation mold together. In contrary to the conventional architectural proces, design and construction are brought together to a collaborative process on the building...

EIC | 20 JAN 2022

EIC | 20 JAN 2022

The Earth is facing the biggest problem in centuries: climate change. To understand it we need to obtain information in places where the consequences of global warming can be observed first-hand. These places are found in extremely cold, harsh environments like...

EIC | 12 JANUARY

EIC | 13 JAN 2022

Join us for a drink to welcome the new year! Missed this edition? Don't worry, we've got your back. Rewatch the edition here: https://youtu.be/geLOJLTbj3w

EIC | 2 DEC 2021

EIC | 2 DEC 2021

The Embassy of Inclusive Society is primarily a plea for a more diverse and inclusive design field. A plea for a greater number of designers with diverse and inclusive backgrounds. Where the outcome is an open society that strives for the participation of all, a...

EIC | 25 NOV 2021

EIC | 25 NOV 2021

AI is becoming increasingly democratized. Previously inaccessible to all but large tech-oriented companies, new AI tools and frameworks enable even non-experts to build AI innovations for their company. But the variety of possibilities can be very confusing. In this...

EIC | 11 NOV 2021

EIC | 11 NOV 2021

In our modern society we seem to have lost the connection with our breath. The most basic human biological function is being under and mis-used. During this talk, we discussed how and why design should play a role in the re-discovery of the breath as a valuable...

EIC | 28 OCT 2021

EIC | 28 OCT 2021

Rens Brankaert is Assistant Professor of Active and Healthy Ageing with a specific interest in dementia in the systemic change group at Industrial Design. He set up and leads the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) expertise center for Dementia & Technology....

EIC | 21 OCT 2021

EIC | 21 OCT 2021

Design to Market is an accelerator for graduated design talent (BA and MA), offered by the province of Noord-Brabant, six design institutions (see logos) and several companies In Brabant. With ASML as front runner, an accelerator program has been set up to generate...

EIC | 14 OCT 2021

EIC | 14 OCT 2021

Student team CORE focuses on researching and enabling the recycling of hard-to-process waste streams like e-waste and contaminated soil In 2016 alone, 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste were generated, which is the equivalent of 4500 Eifel towers. This is expected...

EIC | 7 OCT 2021

EIC | 7 OCT 2021

Perspectives for AI: A Biased and Incomplete View Industry and academia should work together to shape what AI will become, maximizing benefits while paying attention to privacy and fairness. Cassio de Campos gave an open view of current AI and describe some ideas on...

EIC | 30 SEPT 2021

EIC | 30 SEPT 2021

Cooloo’s goal is to develop sustainable, aesthetic and ecological solutions. Solutions that are flexible in application, and create high-end design products suitable to last within the circular economy. Our 40+ years of experience in the furniture industry has shown...

EIC | 23 SEPT 2021

EIC | 23 SEPT 2021

Carbon is a vital component of every life form on our planet. It is currently emitted as a “waste” product in the form of CO2 and is one of our principle climate change agents. By harvesting the free carbon reserve that is present in air, a material abundance for...

EIC | 16 SEPT 2021

EIC | 16 SEPT 2021

This Thursday, the Kazerne Design Award 2021 took place. Unfortunately, this was only for a selected audience live, but the event was available via Youtube. Missed this event? Rewatch it here: https://youtu.be/yt0U_LorTTs  

EIC | 9 SEPT 2021

EIC | 9 SEPT 2021

Local food production can make a city more resilient and create spaces for social interaction throughout all sorts of backgrounds and cultures resulting in a stronger sense of community. Jonas Gorgënand Bram de Vos want to showcase a variety of proposals on how...

EIC | 2 SEPT 2021

EIC | 2 SEPT 2021

Studio Birthplace dedicates itself to tell the pressing stories of our time, to create awareness and inspire change. Animals, humans and nature are struggling to survive all over the world as we experience a critical climate emergency, massive inequity and a sixth...

EIC | 29 JULY 2021

EIC | 29 JULY 2021

CASA 1.0 is a comfortable, affordable and sustainable alternative for Dutch social housing. It was developed by Team CASA, a student team of the Eindhoven University of Technology, together with many partners and sponsors. The goal: integrating new and existing...

EIC | 22 JULY 2021

EIC | 22 JULY 2021

Meet Goldilocks®. Vertoro aims to speed up the green revolution by offering a bio-based alternative to fossil resources. Their green gold is bold and will prove invaluable to the future of the planet. Ultimately, it can replace fossil crude oil as a platform product...

EIC | 15 JULY 2021

EIC | 15 JULY 2021

The EAISI Mobility Lab is a joint program of NXP and TU/e and is also an ICAI Lab. ICAI is a Dutch network aimed at technology and talent development between knowledge institutes, industry, and government in the area of artificial intelligence.It aims to advance...

EIC | 8 JULY 2021

EIC | 8 JULY 2021

Maurangelo Petruzzella presented a fresh overview on the upcoming spectral revolution: how miniaturized spectral sensors will change the way we will ‘see’ the world around us. MantiSpectra is developing a chip-based Near-Infrared (NIR) spectral sensor. Optical...

EIC | 1 JULY 2021

EIC | 1 JULY 2021

Premature birth is a major problem, affecting more than 1 in 10 babies globally. Currently, infants born between 28 and 37 weeks are housed within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), supporting their cardiorespiratory function and development to full term. This...

EIC | 24 JUNE 2021

EIC | 24 JUNE 2021

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the intestine. About 2 million Europeans suffer from IBD with thousands of new cases every year. Diagnosis of IBD goes via different medical procedures; biochemical, radiologic, histologic and...

EIC | 17 JUNE 2021

EIC | 17 JUNE 2021

Our world is getting more digital. And everywhere around us we can find art and technology getting closer to each other or even merging. Just like Augmented Reality options in public space as art. How can art be manifested in future public space? How will art evolve?...

EIC | 10 JUNE 2021

EIC | 10 JUNE 2021

SOLID is a yearly changing, multidisciplinary team of students from Eindhoven University of Technology. Founded in 2016, the team has grown expeditiously into a large and ambitious organization. They aim to further develop our skills, iron fuel technology and the...

EIC | 3 JUNE 2021

EIC | 3 JUNE 2021

Within the world of lighting, not many designers experiment in such a progressive and idiosyncratic way as VANTOT does. From LED to solar cells, Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp have developed into true light specialists within their studio, VANTOT. Originally creating...

EIC | 27 MAY 2021

EIC | 27 MAY 2021

How do we create resilient restaurants? How do we create accessible technologies and resilient value chains that support a thriving restaurant industry, especially for small business owners? Covid-19 has hit the hospitality industry hard and consumer demands have...

EIC | 20 MAY 2021

EIC | 20 MAY 2021

How do you become a molecular LEGO-master? Patricia Dankers discussed designing a synthetic extracellular matric with the help of molecular LEGO blocks. Countless molecular interactions in our body, our tissues, in and outside of our cells define the functions of our...

EIC | 13 MAY 2021

EIC | 13 MAY 2021

Simon Dogger is a designer with a whole new point of view. He graduated the Design Academy Eindhoven as a blind designer, with an ability to listen and feel, and a strong drive to regain his independence. Not seeing himself as handicapped, but as someone who takes in...

EIC | 29 APR 2021

EIC | 29 APR 2021

Do you know the blind world has its way of seeing, dreaming, colouring and picturing? Do you know what beauty looks like if you can’t see? Do you know design can be more inclusive if we can see what the visually impaired feel? Our perception limits us. Designer Boey...

EIC | 22 APR 2021

EIC | 22 APR 2021

In the year 2021, we can no longer afford to feign that technology is neutral. The difference between ‘real’ and ‘not real’ becomes increasingly muddled in these times of deepfake videos and post-truth politics. Algorithms facilitate a web of lies, with direct...

EIC | 15 APR 2021

EIC | 15 APR 2021

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging healthcare problem that if not properly tackled will lead to 15M deaths worldwide by 2050. Creating awareness and material technology alternatives to prevent and treat infection is of key importance. Chris Arts gave an...

EIC | 8 APR 2021

EIC | 8 APR 2021

Lady Justitia wears a blindfold. She does not wish to see who is in front of here. She justs wants to know what interests are at stake. Equal interests are weighed equally. Since Justitia is blindfolded, this principle should apply to all that have interests,...

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