7.00 a.m.

Joris abruptly wakes up to the sound of the ATC robot (autonomous trash collection) as it makes its regular Tuesday round of the Tongelresestraat. Not all of today’s ATC’s run smoothly and they tend to drop a kliko bin occasionally. Everything used to be better in the past. Anyway, it’s about time to get up now so that Joris can do some virtual running before the livestream of that ancient Maarten Steinbuch’s Thermodynamics class starts.

8.30 a.m.

‘Good morning everyone!’ a voice in the room says cheerfully. Joris feels much better ever since he has been performing tests for his medical robots on himself. And there’s a spring in his step as he walks across his desk and proudly shows his new robot legs. Perfect, these holograms. Sipping from his hot coffee, Joris follows his thermodynamics class.

10.30 a.m.

Joris gets on his Bird and rides to TU/e. Luckily, there are always more than enough of them in the Tongelresestraat. Zigzagging past his fellow road users on bicycles and e-steps, Joris finds his way to campus. Such a great idea that they decided to ban cars from the city last year. Joris still has plenty of time and decides to make a quick d-tour of Strijp. It’s so great to see how the design-orientated programs are taught here in collaboration with the Urban Movement of Eindhoven. These buildings still have all the features of the original early 21^th-century architectural style.

10.45 a.m.

After arriving at campus, Joris steps into MetaForum to study for two hours before Wijnand IJsselteijn’s Human-Technology Interaction design course starts. It does take some time getting used to the fact that the university officially has no departments any more as of this year, only interdisciplinary research groups. So, Human-Technology Interaction today, and deeply engrossed in statistics with Onno Boxma tomorrow.

12.45 p.m.

Back on the e-step, on the way to Strijp, the location of many of the new TU/e buildings. During Wijnand’s course, students work on the design of advanced robots for the agriculture sector. Students from Wageningen and mechatronics students from Fontys follow this course as well – a jumble of students that leads to cool, new innovations each year.

18.00 p.m.

After toiling away at the robot for several hours, Joris is off to his final appointment of the day – with the manageress of the Dutch Design Week. Super cool, she wants to exhibit their robot at the Dutch Design Week! A great honor. The DDW is the world’s largest event in the field of technology and design.

22.00 p.m.

After a celebration dinner at Usine, Joris rides back home on his Bird step. How beautiful Eindhoven is. Even the Vestdijk is nearly finished: completely green and no more polluting cars. There still are a few Ambers and Lightyears driving around though. But that’s not a problem. On the contrary, Eindhoven has every right to be proud of their impact worldwide!

This was Tom Selten’s and Bas Verkaik’s final blog from TU/e innovation Space. Would you like to read back some of the things they wrote since the opening? Click here. Cursor thanks Tom and Bas for offering a regular look behind the scenes!