2. Multilingual Sustainable Designer & Researcher
I am a passionate young Researcher/Product
Developer with a lot of experience living abroad.
I am especially interested in research in the field
of sustainable product design and urban planning
in the Emerging Markets. My main qualities are
a broad knowledge of languages and an holistic,
interdisciplinary and methodological approach
for problem solving. I have study and/or work
experiences in Belgium, Panama, Brazil and France.
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About Me
I have obtained a MSc. degree in Product
Development at the “Artesis” Institute in Antwerp
in 2010 and currently I am enrolled in a six months
internship at the UN headquarters in Paris.
In this booklet, I will guide you through a selection
of my work as a student and trainee in the field
of design research and product design. More
information about me can be obtained in my
resume. If there would be any remaining questions,
please don’t hesitate to contact me personally.
Contact Information:
E-Mail: jenteminne@gmail.com
Mobile: +32 (0) 486 66 68 41
Address: Seutinstraat 9
1030 Brussels
Publications: http://users.skynet.be/jenteminne/
4. Internship at the United Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme
From November 2010 to March 2011, I was
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enrolled in an internship at the Division of
Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) of
the United Nations Environmental Programme
(UNEP) in Paris.
The internship consisted of 3 different projects
from the Sustainable United Nations Unit
(SUN) related to sustainable Building and
Urban planning: The Urban Programme the The United Nations Environment Programme
Sustainable Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI) and
the Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative
(UNEP-SBCI). The UNEP Urban Programme
The Urban Programme has the mission to integrate
the urban dimension of global environmental
issues and to encourage a more consistent
approach within UNEP. The programme aims
at promoting the link between local and global
agendas and action. The programme supports
networks of cities in addressing climate change
and interventions that have both local and global
benefits.This programme is mainly focussed on
emerging cities.
Main tasks were to assist the Urban Programme
team in daily management and communications,
and in the cooperation programme with Cities
Alliance, including: Communications, publications,
Desk review: “The Sustainable Cities Practices” and outreach.
5. Internship at the United Nations
Sustainable Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI)
The Sustainable Social Housing Initiative (SUSHI)
was launched in 2008 by UNEP. It aims at
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promoting the use of sustainable solutions in
social housing projects. It was implemented in
two locations: Sao Paulo, Brazil and Bangkok,
Thailand. This programme is also mainly focussed
on emerging cities.
My contribution to this programme was to
support in: Reviewing and editing deliverables
from local project teams as well as the final
Website concept: The SUSHI I outcomes
methodology and tools, Drafting and editing the
final report and financial report and other day-to-
day management issues.
The Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative
The Sustainable Buildings and Climate Change
Initiative (UNEP-SBCI) is a partnership between
the United Nations Environment Programme and
the buildings sector. The objective of UNEP-SBCI
is to promote sustainable building policies and
practices worldwide.
The main tasks included: Membership coordination
and day-to-day management of the initiative;
Meeting preparations; contribution to drafting
background papers, presentations, agendas and
minutes; Communications including brochures,
preparation of website updates, publications;
Publication: UNEP Work on Urban Environment outreach and other day-to-day management.
6. Sustainable Design for the Emerging Markets
“Sustainable Design for the Emerging Markets”
is my graduation project in the field of Design
Research and Management
Research, realized in the academic year 2009-
2010. Dr. Chris Baelus and David Peck from Tu
Delft acted as mentors.
Target group:
Multinationals Focus on New “Emerging”
Markets.
The western markets are saturated and more
Between 2 and 8 more multinationals focus on big emerging
and dollars PPP
Disposable income
markets as India, China and Brazil to realize
More productshigher growth. It concerns a market of 2.7 Obtaining the development goals while making profits
billion persons whose income lays between 2
Big Eco impact
and 8 dollars PPP.
Multinationals’ interests
The peculiarities still apply
The Road to Radical and Sustainable
Innovation?
The market income curve
Because of Ecological issues, a new approach
is needed to fulfill the needs of these markets
in an Ecological sustainable way.
Following the path of the emerged markets
isn’t opportune and designing for the
emerging markets forces companies to
question the existing paradigms.
The goal of this project was to map how the
specific characteristics of designing for the
10 biggest emerging markets emerging markets offers opportunities and
The 10 biggest emerging markets threats to design more Eco-friendly products.
7. Sustainable Design for the Emerging Markets
Research Method
This project is based on a triangle structure,
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where, started from abstract terms about
designing for the emerging markets and Eco
design, the relation was sought with more
practical guidelines. A list with 53 business
plan principles for the emerging markets was
created and these guidelines were compared
with the guidelines of the LiDS strategies. These
are 8 strategies that measure the Ecological
sustainability over the whole life cycle of a
product or service.
This theoretical model was tested on some
cases. The research methods used in this project
are in depth interviews, literature study and
desk research. Methodology: The relation between ecological,
social and economical sustainability
Outcome
? The study resulted in a list of 53 concrete
business plan principles, a matrix which shows
the correlation between these 53 principles
and their Eco impact and the clustering of
the most important business plan principles.
Furthermore the theoretical model was tested
on 3 cases.
Case study: The influence of the LiDS strategiesprinciples
Influence on business plan You can find the final report at:
on the LiDS wheel strategies http://users.skynet.be/jenteminne/
8. The Innovation Management of NGOs
“Innovation and NGOS, a Case Study of NGOs in
Rio de Janeiro” is a Research project executed in
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the 2009. This project is fulfilled in cooperation
with Viva Rio and Ibiss.
Professionalisation of the NGOs
The last decade, development work is undergoing
a new evolution where NGOs and civil society are
experiencing pressure to act more efficiently. The
professionalisation of the NGOs is considered to
be an important issue and innovation is becoming
an important aspect of NGOs vital for the
sustainability of NGOs.
Research methodology
Research Project Description
This project is an exploratory research project that
focuses on challenges related to innovation local
NGOs have to deal with and the way they try to
overcome these challenges. The project contains
a literature study, desk research and 2 in depth
interviews with innovative NGOs in Rio De Janeiro.
Results
This resulted in a list of challenges and criteria
Viva Rio and IBISS : 2 innovative NGOs active i`n Rio de Janeiro that influence innovation and an overview on how
these 2 NGOs are dealing with certain problems.
You can find the final report at: This project also resulted in a lasting contact with
http://users.skynet.be/jenteminne/ Viva Rio.
9. Social Business Concept: BoP-iD
Product Development for the Slums
BoP-iD is a business concept of a limited liability
company (ltda.) in Rio de Janeiro, developed in
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combination with my master thesis project.
BoP-iD is situated in the consultancy sector and,
BoP-iD: Think globally ... Act locally
inspired by C.K.Prahalad, it is addressing the
forgotten markets of Brazil. The company addresses
Small and Medium Enterprises to encourage them
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to design for the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP).
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BoP-iD helps to create free competitive markets in
the favelas and to eradicate poverty while making
profits.
Tapping Local Knowledge and Networks
BoP-iD is specialized in dealing with the difficulties
BoP companies experience. These are related with
the networking and understanding of the local
situation. BoP-iD remains in very close contact with
NGOs and the local population and in this way, it
obtains high quality, high valued information for a
relatively low cost, resulting in relatively high profits.
A Unique Position within a New Market
The biggest advantage of BoP-iD is that it is
addressing companies who want to design for
emerging market, this is an innovative idea in a
niche market that is caracterized as having few
competitors and hard to enter. This offers BoP-
iD exclusive access to essential information and
networks needed to exploit these markets. Girls in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro
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10. 9. Value chain
Social Business Concept: BoP-iD
CSR, a Road to Success This
BoP-iD is a Corporate Social Responsible will p
company that follows a new trend of acting as a of go
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way. It does so by concreting his slogan: “Think
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- Low income and flexible labour contracts
- Local expertise - Level of education employers with
- Cultural and linguistic differences
- Multilingual
- Motivation - Hard to predict the market
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- Innovative service in profitable industry - High adaptation for SMEs
- Multidisciplinary approach - Limited resources
- Flexibility and adjusted service - No experience and reputation
- High dependency on other institutions
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- Relatively Small investment
- Big profits are a
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- Fast growing market
- Very big and expanded market (Brazil)
- Competition/ monopoly MNCs with
- Safety issues in the favelas
- Following economical trends - Ecological issues expe
- Trend: Ethical entrepreneurship and CSR - Acceptance of local population
- Professionalisation of the NGOs - Competition of big consultancy offices this
- Geographical spreading + unity of language - Less big investments because of the
- Networking with civil organisations crisis the B
universities and local companies - Prejudices about BoP/favela population
(Co-creation) - Period until first earnings is longer than a issu
- Economical crisis en small growth --> common design or consultancy office
companies are searching alternative markets - Hard to find the investors for BoP-iD
- Flexibility and local directed of SMEs
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The flexible labour contracts, facilitate to hire people for a short time and thus to be more flexible and
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efficient. The company needs a relatively small investment in the beginning (1 year of research, no production
SWOT- analysis of BoP-iD Value Chain BoP-iD NGO
infrastructure) and it is situated in a profitable industry, while the labour costs are cheap. This can justify the
risks of the project: the difficulties to predict the demand and the fact that the time to earn some money will be cust
longer than in a usual consultancy office. The fact that BoP-iD barely has direct competition and is operating in
You can find the final report at: http://users.skynet.be/jenteminne/ publ
a fast growing, market, can cause a strategical advantage which positive for the long term sustainability of the
company.
Starting with small units, which can expand if they are successful, has a positive impact on the weaknesses
12. Logo design: The Global Partneship (UNEP)
The Global Partnership
This was a voluntary assignment done for the
Global Partnership for sustainable tourism,
a Project under the convention of UNEP-
DTIE with the Ministère de L’écologie, du
dévelopment Durable des transports et du
Logement (MEEDDM).
The assignment was defined as the design
of several official UN logo concepts, which
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combines the traditional UN attributes and
specifications with a modern look defined by
their house style.
Some concepts for The Global Partnership Logo
Logo Design
A file with more than 30 different concepts
and variations was created where, in an
itinary process, became clear what kind of
logo was requested. In order to come to the
3 final concepts,an agreement between 2
consultants, a trainee, the 2 founders of the
Partnership and the webdesigner needed to
be achieved. The main challenges of this task
were the generation of creative ideas while
being restricted by many specifications and the
reconciliation of everybody’s wishes involved
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism in the process.
15. Hospital + : The New Hospital Experience
Project Presentation
The hospital + project was a project together
with 4 other master students.
It was a cooperation with Philips, Boonen and
the artesis superior school and the task was to
implement “hospitality” in health care centers.
The skills evaluated in this project were design
research, conceptual and futuristic thinking,
team work, usability studies, project and budget
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planning and presentation skills.
This project was supported by an
interdisciplinary team of Economics,
sociologists, engineers, people involved with
health care and designers .
Hospital +: Share Time, Save Life
Because of demographic an Economical issues,
Public hospitals in europe will need to cut costs
if they want to remain economically viable. But
At the same time, there can’t be compromised
on quality.Thus hospitals try to shorten the stay
of their patients as much as possible in order to
cut costs. This is a paradox since an increased
amount of people need time to rest.
The “Hospital+” bed is a sustainable concept
that deals with these issues, it offers a high
technological solution which allows patients to
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retreat in a personal cocoon to revitalize their
mind and body and to overcome their illness
Solid works render of the final result of the bed. with friends. The moto is “share time, save life”.
16. Redesign: Taxis in Rio de Janeiro
Group Design in a Multicultural Environment
The design course the first semester of my
master in Rio de Janeiro existed out of a
redesign of a taxi in Rio de Janeiro,
In a group of students, we had to redesign the
dashboard, the seats and the exterior of the car.
The goal of this project was to learn to work
together in group on a project where several
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parts needed to be attuned to each other.
Working in a multicultural environment was the
extra challenge I had to overcome, since the
RendeRings
methodology used in ESDI differs a lot from the
methodology used in our institution. Real size mock up model of the dashboard
Esdi - Uerj | Desenv. de Projeto de Produto III - 2008 | Profs.Freddy Van Camp, Luiz Antonio de Saboya
Camp, Luiz Antonio de Saboya | Equipe Alex Barcelos - Alexandre Pessoa - Mariana Peres - Pedro Marinho
Early sketch of the taxi. CAD model of the dashboard in its environment
17. MIO SmartRunner
A GPS Device for Runnners
This assignment was given by the company
“Mio”. A GPS device for runners had to be
designed. Customer’s research revealed that
the main demands for runners were wearability,
easy access to specific information while
running and incensitives to keep the runner
motivated to continue running.
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CAD model of the SmartRunner
Concept
This concept is a GPS device that could
be inserted in a sweatband or attached to
running shorts. All the information the runner
needs, can be obtained with only 2 clicks on
the touch screen. If desired, some information
can be given through headphones and the
device can also warn runners using a vibration
function.
Wearability of the GPS device
18. cussed on a regional problem. In Belgium
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the weather allows us to set up strand cabins
Foldable Eco Beach Cabin from May until September. The traditional
cabins are from wood and need to be set up
and broke down manually. Our goal was to
Eco Efficiency through Material Innovation
design beach cabins for rent companies that
This foldable Eco Beach cabin was an can be set up and broken down very fast, that
assignment executed in the 2nd bachiler takes nearly no space when the are collapsed
together with my colleague Jeroen and that aren’t so heavy as the traditional
Vandemeulebroeke.The focus of this assignment ones. This saves rent companies a lot of mon-
was collapsible products. In Belgium, the ey, and saves the environment. Our cabins are
weather allows us to set up strand cabins from ready to use with only 1 action...
May until September and the traditional cabins
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are from wood and need to be set up and broke
down manually. Our goal was to design beach
cabins for rent companies that can be set up
and broken down fast. The cabin takes nearly
no space when they are folded and they are
significantly lighter than the traditional cabins.
This results in a more environmental friendly Render of the beach cabin in its environment
product and cost savings for rent companies.
A life cycle Eco- technique has been used to
verify the ecological impact of this product.
Explaination of the instalation and demolition of the cabins
19. Ergonomic Firemen Nozzle
This project was a cooperation with 2 colleagues
in the second year of my studies. It involved
the redesign of products related to water .
The main goal of this assignment was to make
product ergonomical by adapting their form
and to make a coherent product family, without
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forgetting the necessary technical aspects.
Presentation poster of the 3 concepts
My cooperation was the design of a firemen
nozzle that is easier to handle because it
eliminates the big moment force on the arm
and wrist that the traditional nozzle causes.
The water stream controller is really near to
the hand for faster switching and the nozzle
can be used by left and right handed people.
This results in a safer and easier to use
product which leads to a better balance for the
firemen.
Concept poster
20. Media Player Skin
In order to enhance our Photoshop and
illustrator skills, we had to create a mood
board about a science fiction movie, in my
case “Solaris”, starting from screenshots and
using Photoshop. The goal of this exercise
was getting acquainted with the basics of
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adobe Photoshop, like layer masks, opacity
control, selecting tools, filters....
Screensaver based on the movie Solaris
The second part of the assignment involved
the design of a media player skin with the
movie as theme. Apart from learning the
basics of the adobe programs, this assignment
also motivated the students to think on how to
design products and software in a logical and
intuitive way. In particular the placing of the
buttons and the displays in a logical order
Media Player skin based on the movie Solaris
21. Form Exercises
One of the first assigments were form exercises.
On this page, two examples are shown where
the forms had to result in a product based on
the “form follows function” principle.
The example on the right shows how a random
organic form can result in product. In this case a
machine that makes x-rays photos of a patient’s
teeth .
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The example shown below shows a combination
of an animal with a product. In this case the
mix between an hummingbird and an electric
ear thermometer. The Integration of buttons,
screams grips and edges gives these shapes the
product-like look.
Presentation picture: form exercise.
Presentation pictures: hummingbird thermometer Foam model hummingbird thermometer
22. CAD Modelling & Rendering
A part of our training consisted out of the use forms, making valid solids, designing details,
of CAD programs as “Rhinoceros” and “Solid and to make realistic renders. The renders are
Works”. As for my end assignment for the made with Flamingo.
“Rhino” courses, I modelled and rendered a
“Paul reed smith soapbar” guitar. The goal of
this assignment was to train to model organic
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CAD modelling and rendering: PRS Soapbar I Guitar