Abstract
In recent years major companies such as Philips, H&M and Google have adopted a circular economy agenda to promote sustainability. Design consultancies such as IDEO has developed and promoted a circular design guide to help companies in this endeavour. However, designing for a circular economy often require design and reconfiguration of entire value chains – making the transition towards a circular economy rather difficult. In this paper we analyse a development project from the Danish island of Bornholm to investigate how to align diverse actors across the value chain in a process of co-creating systems for a circular economy. We combine design, value chain considerations and circular economy mindsets to informing negotiations of concerns among actors in the value chain.Such strategical navigation might involve:1. Staging initial spaces for dialogue with central actors from the value chain and initiates a process of mapping out their concerns2. Staging a re-alignment space where the diverse actors can meet and interact to discuss and negotiate their concerns and their roles in the network3. Design and enactment of a number of objects to faciliate negotiations
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19) |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 1 |
Publisher | Design Society |
Publication date | 2019 |
Edition | 1 |
Pages | 3371-3380 |
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Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design: ICED 19 - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 8 Aug 2019 Conference number: 22 https://www.designsociety.org/781/22nd+International+Conference+on+Engineering+Design+%28ICED19%29 |
Conference
Conference | 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design |
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Number | 22 |
Location | Delft University of Technology |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
Period | 05/08/2019 → 08/08/2019 |
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Series | Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design |
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ISSN | 2220-4342 |