As the field of healthcare and design continues to evolve, TU Delft needed a strategy to maintain its leadership position. I contributed by creating a new vision, developing a graduation showcase, redesigning the education programme website and organising the Healthcare in Shape Symposium to emphasise the faculty’s holistic approach to healthcare design.
Since 1998, the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft has been a pioneer in healthcare product design. Recently, the Faculty has broadened its scope to include the design of services, interactions and strategies, requiring a refreshed narrative to communicate its holistic approach to designing for health. This evolution reflects a deeper understanding that impactful healthcare design goes beyond the mere design of physical products for hospitals, but can encompass any intervention aimed at improving societal health. The aim was to reposition the faculty as the leader in the multidisciplinary field of design and health.
Delft University of Technology, 2022-2024
For: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
As part of this, I helped to shape the new strategic direction for Design in Health within the Faculty. My role included the development of a new graduation showcase that showcases the width of work being done on the intersection between design and health. This involved designing, writing, curating and collecting content. I was also tasked with redesigning the education programme website with content that accurately reflected the expanded focus of the Faculty. My work also extended to organising the Healthcare in Shape Symposium, all of which aimed to highlight the Faculty’s innovative approach to integrating design with health and technology. Speakers included NWO director Marcel Levi, Apple’s Alec Momont and Yoko Sen. My contributions to the symposium included event and programme design, as well as working with the main speakers to develop keynotes and giving a workshop on designing for prevention with prof. Jos Kraal.
These efforts have successfully attracted more students to the Medisign specialisation, established the leading symposium on the intersection of design, health and technology, and created a globally distributed graduation showcase, reinforcing the Faculty’s position as a leader in the multidisciplinary field of design and health.
