Recent Case Studies
Project Masiluleke HIV care by mobile services
by: Mirjam Visser, 2015-02-17 16:10:39 UTC
Over 5 million people in South Africa are living with HIV and the country has the highest burden of TB-HIV co-infection. TB treatment completion and cure rates fall below 50% in almost half of the districts. Project Masiluleke, Zulu for to give wise counsel …
Co-designed sneakers
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-12-15 14:48:43 UTC
!SYOU is a new way to think about sneaker design. A fresh sneaker concept mixing on-the-edge design, high quality materials. Designed by Co-Design. A creative and commercial handshake across the world. The first batch of co-designed, first edition !SYOU …
UPcycled collection made of leftovers
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-11-10 10:08:41 UTC
Initiated by Droog, UP is an investigative economic model that aims to increase the value of dead stock through re-design. An alternative to recycling and disposal, UP treats leftover goods as raw material for creative re-interpretation in order to bring …
Snap a car: car sharing with your neighbourhood
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-10-28 14:33:11 UTC
23 Hours a day the average car, of the 250 million cars in Europe, is parked. SnappCar tries to get 1% of the cars from the road by promoting car sharing among friends and neighbours. Now active in the Netherlands, Germany and soon in the UK there ambition …
Transparent Fashion Supply Chain: on material, labour and cost of every step
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-10-24 07:56:36 UTC
Belgium Bruno Pieters started Honest By in 2012, a fashion company producing sustainable fashion made, mainly, in Europe. Honest By provides it customers with detailed information on every step in its supply chain. Which material is sourced where and produced …
Up cycled computer fans
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-10-24 07:54:13 UTC
I like to share an example of up cycling with you. Henri Maurer de-assembled computers and took the still working fans out to combine them into an in-door fan with a technological and arty looking design thus extending life of the parts.
First design challenges started on Innonatives Platform
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-10-14 12:08:21 UTC
A year later than expected INNONATIVES, the world’s first open innovation platform that fosters collaborative innovation and design for Sustainability projects is launching its first challenges.
The platforms combines:
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Internet of Things. Does it increase sustainability? Possibly
by: Mirjam Visser, 2014-09-26 06:33:00 UTC
In the coming years the Internet of Things will increasingly connect “intelligent” things, which themselves are represented by sub-systems according to Uckelmann’s definition.
These sub-systems will use the internet to communicate with each other — …
