Entrepreneurial Engineering and Design for the Built Environment

Initiated by staff members from the Departments of MBE, A, U and AE&T, this entrepreneurship project is a collaboration with the Faculties of Technology, Policy and Management, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, and Industrial Design Engineering, the BK-Launch Community and The Green Village. The aim of this studio is to tackle urgencies in the world around us, such as climate adaptation, energy transition, urban inequality, conservation of building materials, and biodiversity for buildings and cities. It cultivates interaction between knowledge-based design and entrepreneurship. A diversity of students together will develop products, designs or services that have the potential to initiate new ventures and possible solutions, and have a tangible, positive impact in the built environment. In general: Science, society and technology are not isolated phenomena. Opinions and methods have a background; decisions have social consequences over time. Students of this course learn and use this and can integrate these insights into their academic work, by means of an iterative development process between design and entrepreneurial planning.