Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy

*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.*

The book Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. Designing Lightness entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. The volume therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The subject should be of interest to all design disciplines, combining packaging, vehicles, skyscrapers, and nanoscale phenomena. 

Speakers:
Ed van Hinte, Author, Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy; Principal, Lightness Studios
Quirine Dob, Designer, Studio Renate Boere; Lecturer, Willem de Kooning Academy

About the speakers:
Ed van Hinte graduated in Industrial Design and Engineering at the University of Technology in Delft. He became an author of professional books. Now he is mainly interested on the consequences of the reduction of material flows, of everything from food and consumer goods to airplanes and buildings with Lightness Studios Foundation. He is also a teacher and gives workshops on design and architecture all over the world. He is involved in design research at DRS22 in The Hague and works as an acclaimed design critic and writer. The most important books concern: lightweight structures, food waste reduction, long-term product value cultivation and material flow management. His latest is Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy, co-written with Adriaan Beukers and designed by Studio Renate Boere.