Sustainable Collaborative Design Practices: Circular Economy and the New Context for a Fashion Designer

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Lucinda Morrissey ◽  
Roberta Barban Franceschi ◽  
Ana Margarida Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Fashion Designer

What Drives Eco-Design Innovations in European SMEs?

2022 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Gamze Ozturk Danisman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Firm Capabilities ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Debt Finance ◽  
Equity Finance

Building on the natural-resource-based view, and using a sample of 7,165 European SMEs, this chapter investigates the drivers of eco-design innovations among SMEs under three categories: (1) sustainability-oriented firm capabilities, (2) technological capabilities, and (3) access to finance. The findings reveal that sustainability-oriented capabilities achieved through investments into circular economy are the strongest driver of SMEs' eco-design innovations. Firms' technological capabilities are also found to boost their ability to adopt eco-design innovations. While equity finance increases the possibilities for SMEs to devote resources to eco-design, grant finance is interestingly observed to decrease such possibilities. The more traditionally used form of debt finance remains detached from eco-design implementations. The study contributes to a better understanding of how eco-design practices can be broadened within SMEs and highlights policy recommendations in this regard.

Kollaborative Designpraktiken organisieren – Neues entstehen lassen / Organizing collaborative design practices – creating the New

Arbeit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Oppen ◽  
Friedrich Hauss
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Design Practices

AbstractAuf der Grundlage von 60 leitfadengestützten Interviews mit (Produkt-)Designern wird ein kreativer Gestaltungsprozess in einer Auftraggeber- / Auftragnehmerbeziehung modelliert. Dieser zeichnet sich durch unterschiedliche Bewertungen der Problemdefinition, der Wege zur Problemlosung und der Problemlosung selbst durch die beiden Parteien aus, die in einem nicht linearen aber sich quasi selbst regulierenden Prozess „verhandelt“ werden. Solche Prozesse sind extrem empfindlich gegen Steuerungsversuche von außen. Sollen Kreativitätsreserven in diesem Prozess freigesetzt werden, darf deshalb nicht in den Prozess selbst eingegriffen werden. Vielmehr wäre an der Kommunikationsfähigkeit und Reflexionsfähigkeit der Akteure anzusetzen, die es ermöglichen, über die Grenzen von professionellen Praxiskulturen hinweg Kollaborationsprozesse angemessener organisieren und bestreiten zu können.

scholarly journals Towards Circular Economy in the Household Appliance Industry: An Overview of Cases

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Bressanelli ◽  
Nicola Saccani ◽  
Marco Perona ◽  
Irene Baccanelli
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Household Appliance ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Management Actions

Circular Economy is a means to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns. However, it is still at an embryonic stage of implementation in manufacturing companies. Given its potential, the household appliance industry is a promising arena for the adoption of Circular Economy. Thus, this study aims to investigate and systematize how Circular Economy has been adopted in the household appliance industry, through a multiple case study research. Twenty cases are analyzed following a Research Framework, to map: (i) the Circular Economy 4R strategies of reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle; (ii) the Circular Economy levers, i.e., whether circular product design practices, servitized business models or supply chain management actions are undertaken; (iii) the role of digital 4.0 technologies as enablers; (iv) the benefits achieved. The analysis showed that servitized business models and supply chain management actions are widely used levers, while little attention is devoted to circular product design practices. Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Cloud emerged as powerful enablers of servitized business models. Two main patterns of Circular Economy adoption in the household appliance industry emerged from cases: incremental and radical adoption patterns. Incremental adoption patterns are based on design strategies focused on reduce and recycle, mainly led by manufacturers. Radical adoption patterns are instead focused on disruptive practices based on reuse, remanufacture, servitization and sharing, where digital 4.0 technologies serve as enablers. Overall, this exploratory research lays the foundation for a stronger and more systemic understanding of the adoption of Circular Economy in the household appliance industry.

scholarly journals Play as a Player in Design. Rethinking a ‘Curious Practice’ for Co-designing Public Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Laura Winge ◽  
Anne Margrethe Wagner ◽  
Bettina Lamm
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Collaborative Improvisation ◽  
Public Green Space

‘Move the Neighbourhood’ is a research project experimenting with co-designing playable installations for a public green space in Copenhagen through a design-based collaboration between children and design-researchers. We employed a co-design process to investigate whether deconstructing the rules for both play and design could trigger new ways of thinking about playable spaces. The aim was to test a participatory process in order to identify what might be meaningful in relation to both play and designing for play, along a spectrum ranging from rules to collaborative improvisation. Our fieldwork cultivated what Haraway calls ‘response-ability’ in a ‘curious practice’ that explores the unanticipated in the collaboration between children and designers. The metaphor of a ‘jelly cake’ from play-research was used to illustrate the messiness of play and to frame the discussion on collaborative design. We see play as a serious co-player that evokes collective worlds through productive, messy fields of action, and enables actors to engage in the co-design of playable public space. In this article, we investigate how play can create agency, spark imagination and open up practices in both artistic and academic processes. Drawing on Barad’s concept of ‘intra-action’, we investigate design/play as a dynamic engine for exploring collaborative design practices as a dialogue between art, play and co-design.

Development trends of circular economy: Case study of Ukraine

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Tamara Merkulova ◽  
Kateryna Kononova ◽  
Olena Titomir
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Development Trends

Causing a Stir

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo POTOCNJAK-OXMAN
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Early Stages

Stir was a crowd-voted grants platform aimed at supporting creative youth in the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey. Developed through an in-depth, collaborative design process, between 2015 and 2018 it received close to two hundred projects and distributed over fifty grants to emerging creatives and became one of the most impactful programs aimed at increasing entrepreneurial activity in Canberra, Australia. The following case study will provide an overview of the methodology and process used by the design team in conceiving and developing this platform, highlighting how the community’s interests and competencies were embedded in the project itself. The case provides insights for people leading collaborative design processes, with specific emphasis on some of the characteristics on programs targeting creative youth

Transitioning Business for a Circular Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan EVANS
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Operational Model ◽  
New Vision ◽  
To Come ◽  
Space Requirements

This case study explores the strategic business opportunities, for Lane Crawford, an iconic luxury department store, to transition in a circular economy towards sustainability. A new experimentation framework was developed and conducted among cross departmental employees, during a Design Lab, with intention to co-create novel Circular Economy business concepts towards a new vision: the later was a reframe of the old system based on the principles of sustainability; to move beyond a linear operational model towards a circular economy that can contribute to a regenerative society. This work draws on both academic and professional experience and was conducted through professional practice. It was found that innovative co-created concepts, output from the Design Lab, can create radical change in a circular economy that is holistically beneficial and financially viable; looking forward to extract greater value a)Internal organization requires remodeling to transform towards a circular economy; b)Requirement for more horizonal teams across departments vs solely vertical; c)New language and relationships are required to be able to transition towards a circular economy; d)Some form of physical and virtual space requirements, for cross-disciplinary teams to come together to co-create; e)Ability to iterate, learn and evolve requires agency across the business

European experience in transition to circular economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Ratner
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
European Experience ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Eu

Subject. The article considers the concept of circular economy, which has originated relatively recently in the academic literature, and is now increasingly recognized in many countries at the national level. In the European Union, the transition to circular economy is viewed as an opportunity to improve competitiveness of the European Union, protect businesses from resource shortages and fluctuating prices for raw materials and supplies, and a way to increase employment and innovation. Objectives. The aim of the study is to analyze the incentives developed by the European Commission for moving to circular economy, and to assess their effectiveness on the basis of statistical analysis. Methods. I employ general scientific methods of research. Results. The analysis of the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy enabled to conclude that the results of the recent research in circular economy barriers, eco-innovation, technology and infrastructure were successfully integrated into the framework of this document. Understanding the root causes holding back the circular economy development and the balanced combination of economic and administrative incentives strengthened the Action Plan, and it contributed to the circular economy development in the EU. Conclusions. The measures to stimulate the development of the circular economy proposed in the European Action Plan can be viewed as a prototype for designing similar strategies in other countries, including Russia. Meanwhile, a more detailed analysis of barriers to the circular economy at the level of individual countries and regions is needed.

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