Functional Demonstrators to Support Understanding of Smart Materials

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

B. Barati Emerging Materials -

E. Karana Emerging Materials -

K.M.B. Jansen Emerging Materials -

P.P.M. Hekkert Design Aesthetics -

Research Group

Emerging Materials () (TU Delft)

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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Sustainable Design Engineering

Research Group

Emerging Materials

Abstract

The emergence of smart materials has urged design education to keep up and take part in introducing them to design students. There has been a great deal of work on teaching conventional materials like wood, metal and polymers in product design. Yet when it comes to learning smart materials, the sources are very limited. Our research group in Delft University of Technology has initiated a number of projects, particularly focusing on understanding technical and experiential characteristics of smart materials as materials of design. Our mission is to communicate smart material qualities through pre-design tinkering activities and functional demonstrators, which also serve as a source for inspiration. In this paper, we explain our approach through an example case on electroluminescent materials.