This research aims to enhance sustainability in urban tourism, driven by current trends and personal interest. Using the Basic Design Cycle (Roozenburg & Eekels, 1995), the project progresses through eight stages of analysis and synthesis. A key concept was validated through stakeholder engagement, revealing crucial insights. These insights inform strategic conclusions, emphasizing iterative validation and collaboration in urban sustainability. The findings advance understanding of design methodologies and practical implementation, promoting sustainable urban tourism and stakeholder cooperation.

With the introduction of the new Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) bachelor in 2021 all courses underwent a revision to promote, amongst other, an autonomous learning attitude. The conventional approach of teaching engineering relied on direct instructions and problem-based learning and proved to be inadequate. With a short retention time and limited deeper concept understanding, students struggled to apply their engineering knowledge in capstone design projects. This project aims to develop new educational materials to align better with this new attitude.

The project is approached with a hands-on and iterative mindset. More than nine prototypes have been developed and tested with users. The result is a versatile educational toolkit that can be configured into small-scale manufacturing machines. Currently three configurations are developed, but due to its modular components more configurations can be added in the future. These machines provide students with hands-on experience related to manufacturing techniques and its opportunities, limitations, and materials. By being intriguing, exciting, versatile, and user-friendly, the machines stimulate active involvement. With a focus on producibility and cost-effectiveness, this toolkit is designed to integrate seamlessly into the IDE bachelor's program, offering an accessible, practical, and engaging learning resource that supports deeper concept understanding.

The goal of this project is to develop the vision on mobility for Greenchoice in the year 2030. To achieve this goal, the double diamond model is used, filled with the Vision in product design method.
The project is hosted at the energy supplier Greenchoice, which is currently in a strategic shift from energy supplier to a platform for climate positivity, where they want to offer the next step in sustainability to every customer.
Past years, Greenchoice has aquired seperate mobility services, to offer charging services, charging stations and business charging. These services are completely seperated and do not work together to create a unique value proposition in the mobility market. By developing the vision on mobility, an integrated proposition should be developed.
Interviews with EV drivers and desk research were executed, to create context factors, which in turn were used in a workshop to develop a future context. From this future context, an attitude grid was created to decide on a position for Greenchoice in the future context. A design direction is created, to serve this position: In 2030, we envision providing our customers with their own sustainable energy always and everywhere in an intuitive way, by being able to use their sustainable energy outside of their homes with their Electric Vehicles.
To come from the future vision statement to a concept, an analogy was brainstormed. The chosen analogy was based on the concept of a creditcard. The characteristics from the interaction with a creditcard were derived, to guide the conceptualization phase. With the characteristics of a creditcard, the project team came up with two concepts:
Happy charging & Community charging.
Through multiple iterations and with the help of user feedback through narrative storytelling and app screen prototyping, both concepts iterated into the final concept.
Happy charging lets users save up their solar energy which they don’t use at home, to charge their car with on the road. The app will function as a digital battery notifying EV drivers when and where they can charge with their own solar energy.
Community charging lets homeowners register their home charging and make their charger available to the Greenchoice EV driver community. The EV drivers are able to charge at somebodies home charger between selected times, so the homeowner has a way to optimize the use of their solar generation through the home charger and the Greenchoice EV driver benefits from a more extensive charging network.
Eventually both concepts are joined into one concept, Chargeshare, so customers are connected to eachother, to charge their own sustainable energy at home and on the road in a seamless way. The concept is delivered with a description and roadmap for development.