These so-called Right to Repair regulations will go into effect in 2021. In autumn 2019, the European Commission, as part of its push to make Europe greener, implemented regulations that would require companies to make appliances longer lasting, both by extending lifespans but also by making them easier to repair. Green pressure from Brussels While Francesco was worried about his workload in Delft, in Brussels the European Commission was worrying about product repairability. He landed a project with the largest and the most quintessentially Dutch company possible for an industrial design engineer: Philips. And he knew he wanted to work with a Dutch company, which cared about sustainability. Francesco knew that he wanted to work with a large company, where he felt he could have a bigger impact. Being successful under that amount of pressure came in handy when he went on to his internship. He readily admits that he spent a lot of that period thinking that the challenge was too great: “It was a lot of pressure for someone who had designed toasters.” The project went on to win the Dutch national James Dyson Award in 2018. During his second semester Francesco set to work on the design of the Excelscope - a medical device which can detect malaria with the aid of a smartphone. He wanted to improve his English and focus on sustainability issues, and he felt he could do both things in the Netherlands. “Everyone at The Polytechnic University of Milan knows about TU Delft,” he says, which is where he earned his bachelor’s degree.
Text: Molly Quell Toasters and malaria Originally from Italy, Francesco came to Delft to study Integrated Product Design. He discovered that just moving four screws on a vacuum cleaner could make a big difference. Francesco De Fazio wanted to do his part.
These are problems that will require huge, cooperative efforts to fix.
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