UPPS 'Perfect Fit'

How to design an ultra-personalized desk chair for the home environment? How to position UPPS in the market? What can we say about UPPS in education, How to personalize a sit kite? How to design and produce Ultra Personalised Products and Services?

Find out this and more at the second UPPS Symposium Perfect Fit, on Tuesday 16 April 13:30-17:30, organised by the UPPS team and hosted by TU Delft.
Enjoy an afternoon full of UPPS pitches by, amongst others, Willem Hooft - International sit kite surfer, the company Zon & Hoofd that will talk about a personalised office chair. Furthermore, you can expect interactive workshops, and a ‘Belgium UPPS perspective’ keynote by Jouke Verlinden.
We welcome the UPPS network of companies, design professionals, researchers, students, and anyone interested in this intriguing design world!

Programme

• 13:30 Walk in with coffee and tea
• 13:45 Welcome and introduction UPPS
• 14:00 Project pitches (see below for more info)
• 15:00 Break
• 15:15 Workshops (3D- and 4D-scanning, AI and UPPS, Lab Tour, UPPS canvas)
• 16:30 Keynote Jouke Verlinden, Professor ‘Augmented Fabrication’ at the University of Antwerp
• 17:00 Drinks
• 17:30 End

Talks

• Zon en Hoofd: Ultra-personalised desk chair for the home environment
• Willemijn Elkhuizen: UPPS in education, case Artificial Eye
• nSize: Crafting custom experiences: Key learnings from developing UPPS.
• Willem Hooft: No Wave too High (sit kite)

Participation is free after registration. Join and subscribe now via this link.