Design AwardThree TU Faculty of Architecture students have been nominated for the 2007 South Holland Design Award in the ‘spatial design’ category.
All the nominees are from the Architecture Hybrid Building graduation laboratory. They are Luuk Stoltenborg, Oscar Arce Gonzales and Carien Akkermans. The Delft rail zone was this year’s South Holland Design Award theme. The award has three categories: spatial design, visual communication and product design. There were 42 entries, four of which were nominated in the ‘spatial design’ category and four in the ‘product design’ category. The South Holland Design Award makes 2500 euros available for each category and supports young designers from South Holland educational institutions. The winner will be announced on 1 November, prior to the opening of the exhibition of all 42 entries. The award ceremony and exhibition will be held in the Gist- en Spiritusfabriek hall in DSM’s Delft head office. The exhibition will be open from November 1-25, from Wednesdays to Sundays, from 12:00 and 18:00. Admission is free.
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Ig Nobels
Pioneering research into a “gay bomb” that makes enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to each other has won one of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, which were created by the science magazine, ‘Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)’, to mark achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. The prize ceremony was held last week at Harvard University. Like the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobels are split into several categories and all research is real and published. Other 2007 Ig Nobel winners included: in physics, a US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled; in biology,Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for identifying all the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds; and in linguistics, a University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.
Handicapped
TU Delft is not the most handicapped-friendly university, according to a national student survey conducted on www. Studiekeuze123.nl. TU Delft was ranked 11th. Wageningen University was ranked the best for offering services and facilities for handicapped students. Radboud University Nijmegen ranked second and the University of Twente third. TU Delft’s dean of students Piet Jonkheer said the results for Delft were “surprising and disappointing.”
Ikea pencil
The wooden pencil may well be an Ikea icon, but it might be due for retirement. Delft students on team Qimoz have come up with Ikeys, a new way of making your Ikea shopping list. Their idea won them the Ikea Innovation competition, which asked TU Delft students to come up with ideas to ensure that customers will still be enjoying shopping at Ikea in ten years’ time. Ikeys combines mobile telephone and RFID technologies. Ikeys is not just extremely convenient, it also saves paper. The jury selected team Qimoz because they met the challenge ‘to think 10 years ahead’. Their idea was both innovative and practical, and they anticipated trends that may influence consumers well into the 21st century. Team Qimoz won a unique trip to Sweden, including a tour of the IKEA organization. A total of 20 teams and 44 students from the TU Delft entered the competition.
IDE deficit
The TU’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) will have a budget deficit of approximately one million euro for 2008. The faculty is therefore currently searching for ways to save money, according to the IDE’s dean, Professor Cees de Bont, who said there were various reasons why the faculty is running a deficit: “IDE has developed a new Bachelor’s program that operates according to modern educational principles. We are making more use of problem-focused education, and this requires more capacity from our instructors.” Other reasons for the deficit are that the faculty is also receiving less money from the TU for its educational infrastructure, and moreover, the faculty enrolled more first-year students this year than the year previously (280 first-year students in 2006; 335 first-year students in 2007). De Bont is facing short-terms problems: “I must hire extra educational capacities. But for this I will only be reimbursed when these students receive their diplomas.”
Design Award
Three TU Faculty of Architecture students have been nominated for the 2007 South Holland Design Award in the ‘spatial design’ category. All the nominees are from the Architecture Hybrid Building graduation laboratory. They are Luuk Stoltenborg, Oscar Arce Gonzales and Carien Akkermans. The Delft rail zone was this year’s South Holland Design Award theme. The award has three categories: spatial design, visual communication and product design. There were 42 entries, four of which were nominated in the ‘spatial design’ category and four in the ‘product design’ category. The South Holland Design Award makes 2500 euros available for each category and supports young designers from South Holland educational institutions. The winner will be announced on 1 November, prior to the opening of the exhibition of all 42 entries. The award ceremony and exhibition will be held in the Gist- en Spiritusfabriek hall in DSM’s Delft head office. The exhibition will be open from November 1-25, from Wednesdays to Sundays, from 12:00 and 18:00. Admission is free.
www.zhvp.nl
Ig Nobels
Pioneering research into a “gay bomb” that makes enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to each other has won one of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, which were created by the science magazine, ‘Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)’, to mark achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. The prize ceremony was held last week at Harvard University. Like the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobels are split into several categories and all research is real and published. Other 2007 Ig Nobel winners included: in physics, a US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled; in biology,Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for identifying all the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds; and in linguistics, a University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.
Handicapped
TU Delft is not the most handicapped-friendly university, according to a national student survey conducted on www. Studiekeuze123.nl. TU Delft was ranked 11th. Wageningen University was ranked the best for offering services and facilities for handicapped students. Radboud University Nijmegen ranked second and the University of Twente third. TU Delft’s dean of students Piet Jonkheer said the results for Delft were “surprising and disappointing.”
Ikea pencil
The wooden pencil may well be an Ikea icon, but it might be due for retirement. Delft students on team Qimoz have come up with Ikeys, a new way of making your Ikea shopping list. Their idea won them the Ikea Innovation competition, which asked TU Delft students to come up with ideas to ensure that customers will still be enjoying shopping at Ikea in ten years’ time. Ikeys combines mobile telephone and RFID technologies. Ikeys is not just extremely convenient, it also saves paper. The jury selected team Qimoz because they met the challenge ‘to think 10 years ahead’. Their idea was both innovative and practical, and they anticipated trends that may influence consumers well into the 21st century. Team Qimoz won a unique trip to Sweden, including a tour of the IKEA organization. A total of 20 teams and 44 students from the TU Delft entered the competition.
IDE deficit
The TU’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) will have a budget deficit of approximately one million euro for 2008. The faculty is therefore currently searching for ways to save money, according to the IDE’s dean, Professor Cees de Bont, who said there were various reasons why the faculty is running a deficit: “IDE has developed a new Bachelor’s program that operates according to modern educational principles. We are making more use of problem-focused education, and this requires more capacity from our instructors.” Other reasons for the deficit are that the faculty is also receiving less money from the TU for its educational infrastructure, and moreover, the faculty enrolled more first-year students this year than the year previously (280 first-year students in 2006; 335 first-year students in 2007). De Bont is facing short-terms problems: “I must hire extra educational capacities. But for this I will only be reimbursed when these students receive their diplomas.”
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