Circular Courses
Check out the efforts made at the IDE faculty and beyond to implement circular thinking into the curriculum!
Bachelor/Master
CircularX - The Circular Economy: An Introduction
TU Delft launched a new MOOC (massive open online course) about Circular Economy. The course will be online till the end of december 2016 and is open and free for everyone! Enrol now through the following link.
If you want to understand how you can contribute to the circular economy, this course is for you. You will gain an understanding of the concepts, strategies and technologies that enable a circular economy. Opportunities and barriers in the transition towards are more circular system will be discussed and many examples and case studies are given along the way.
The course is created by TU Delft in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability.
Bachelor
IO3075 - Towards Circular Product Design
In February 2014, the first course entirely focussing on Circular Product Design was launched at the TU Delft. Bachelor Elective can be followed once a year in the third quarter and is worth 7.5 ECTS. If you are wondering how to integrate CE principles into your product development, this course will particularly be interesting. Circular product design will be taught through 4 modules with a specific focus area and 4 small projects.
More information on the course here.
Master
ID5356 - Sustainable Design Strategies for Product Development
Yearning to know more about how to design sustainable products in your master? This MSc elective (3ECTS) might be something for you. You will explore in depth the sustainable design strategies Cradle to Cradle, Biomimicry and Ecodesign and learn how to apply them. This is taught through several (guest) lectures and workshops. One of the design strategies will be investigated more thoroughly as a group assignment will ask you to design a truly sustainable product using one of these strategies.
More information on the course here.