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For anyone responsible for creating and producing user products, who realizes that a product’s effect is infinitely larger than satisfying personal user needs; Waarmakers creates designs that bring about a positive social impact, designs that materialise an ideology and trigger specific human behaviour.

We like stuff, but we like people better.

And: we’re engineers from TUDelft. It’s pretty much impossible for us to stop designing until every detail is engineered to fit our vision.

Maarten Heijltjes & Simon Akkaya –> hire us

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WAARMAKERS | design studio
Eerste Helmersstraat 69-ST
1054 DC AMSTERDAM
info@waarmakers.nl
goedzak@waarmakers.nl (goedzak-related)
+31 (0) 20 845 64 83*

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Goedzak

Goedzak is a special garbage bag for items that are still useable. It’s a friendly way to offer products a second chance and stimulate sustainable behavior.

Whether it’s that purple vase your sister-in-law got you, or that particular coffee-pad-loving coffeemachine (you know the one) that’s been lying in the basement for ages; everybody owns items that are no longer of value to them. Every now and then we throw out these items, while they still might be of value and/or useful to others. These items disappear in grey garbage bags and end up on trash piles. Goedzak offers these items a second chance. Goedzak stimulates people to dispose of their products in a more conscious and sustainable way. Goedzak can extend the products’ lifetime.

Goedzak is the result of our design/research project “Design for Altruism”. Starting from a thorough research into the mechanisms involved in altruistic behavior the goal was to design products that stimulate behavior to benefit others, preferably complete strangers.

If you’re interested in this project, or if you’d like to stay up to date, send an email to; goedzak@waarmakers.nl