An Analysis of Design Support Tools for Circular Building Practice

Cambier, Charlotte; Galle, Waldo; Vandervaeren, Camille; Tavernier, Ineke; Temmerman, Niels De

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-8783-2_4

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“…Product industrial design [6,16,19,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] Buildings [11,[50][51][52][53] Manufacturing, Additive manufacturing [54][55][56] Electronic and appliances [57,58] User behavior and user experience design [14,59] Fashion design [60,61] Medical [62]…”

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Using Product Design Strategies to Implement Circular Economy: Differences between Students and Professional Designers

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2022

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Different studies in the scientific literature have shown how the transition towards a circular economy (CE) can benefit from product design, although maintaining a rather broad and qualitative perspective of analysis. This study investigates and compares which product design strategies (from routinely design, structural optimization, industrial design and systematic innovation) are most used by students and professional designers to implement different CE strategies (i.e., waste reduction, reuse, remanufacturing, recycling and biodegradability). Students’ data were collected from year projects and MSc degree theses based on real industrial case studies and carried out in two Italian engineering universities, while those of professional designers, were collected from selected scientific articles. Among the main outcomes emerged that the design strategies deriving from systematic innovation were preferred by students quite clearly. The design strategies referred to industrial design, e.g., user-centered design and timeless design were preferred by professional designers. The design strategies related to routine design, i.e., materials substitution, reducing resources and energy consumption, and structural optimization, were indistinctly used by both students and professional designers. The obtained results and their discussion can be useful during eco-design teaching to show the main gaps that students should fill in comparison with professional designers.

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Using Product Design Strategies to Implement Circular Economy: Differences between Students and Professional Designers

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2022

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Visualizing Equitable Housing: A Prototype for a Framework

2023

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Many citizens, researchers, civil organizations, and policymakers strive for equitable housing. Changing demographics, rising housing prices, and material and energy crises all add to the complexity of that quest. Responding to it, even on a project scale, requires a holistic view. Yet practitioners often work in niches. In contrast, an overarching, interdisciplinary understanding of equitable housing by all stakeholders is expected to bring more sustainable and just housing. In the academic literature, researchers have already defined many criteria of what equitable housing can entail. Nevertheless, this knowledge does not seep through to practitioners who design and develop equitable housing projects. Therefore, this paper proposes a prototype for an equitable housing framework. This framework is designed to facilitate an open discussion between all stakeholders in a project. To develop this framework, an explorative literature study and fifteen semi-structured interviews resulted in a long list of 418 considerations for equitable housing. These considerations are socially, financially, and environmentally oriented. To structure the considerations, they were categorized into fifteen dimensions and visualized in a doughnut-like framework. The framework is designed to encourage users to vocalize their needs and intentions, and to trigger systemic insights. It directs them towards sustainable, social, and inclusive decisions, based on the needs of all stakeholders involved. Moreover, the equitable housing framework allows understanding and analysing their thought patterns and intentions.

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An Analysis of Design Support Tools for Circular Building Practice

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Using Product Design Strategies to Implement Circular Economy: Differences between Students and Professional Designers

Using Product Design Strategies to Implement Circular Economy: Differences between Students and Professional Designers

Visualizing Equitable Housing: A Prototype for a Framework

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