Design for the Circular Economy
Understanding the complexities of designing for a circular economy
Circular product design helps design professionals to improve the long-term sustainability performance of products. The key principle of the approach is 'designing out waste', fitting your product in a circular economy where the value of the product, its components, and its materials are maintained and not wasted.
Date
7-8 June 2023
Group size
8-16 participants
Location
Industrial Design Engineering,
TU Delft
Deadline
29 May 2023
This Masterclass helps you to understand the circular mindset and the role you can play as a design professional in the transition towards a circular economy. We will address implications for product design engineering using examples from practice, and provide research-based, practical design approaches and tools. You will explore the circularity of your own product and come up with circular-ready redesigns.
The sessions in this Masterclass offer a mixture of interactive lectures, tutorials and workshops with the aim to immerse you into the theory and practice of designing for a circular economy. You will work on your own case study to learn how to use the tools and methods taught.
Curriculum
Learning Objectives
During this master class, you will:
- understand the different end-of-life value-capture strategies involved in the circular economy;
- understand how design can contribute to a circular economy;
- apply tools and techniques to assess the ease-of-disassembly, product circularity and potential value capture;
- apply different principles and strategies for circular product design;
- reflect on ways to overcome the barriers for going circular.
Content
- Theory and practice of designing for a circular economy;
- Circular product design tools and methods.
Speakers
Programme
| 9:00 | Registration and Welcome drinks |
| 9:30 | Introduction Getting to know each other |
| 10:00 | Circular Economy and Product design Bas Flipsen & Ingrid de Pauw Explore the core values of circular design for business |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:15 | Value recovery strategies Bas Flipsen Understand the different value recovery strategies such as repair, refurbish, remanufacture, recycle. Discuss the role of reverse logistics, product modularity, and ease of disassembly. |
| 12:00 | Workshop 1A gentle dismantle Bas Flipsen Asses to what extent your product design is ‘circular-ready’ by means of a gentle dismantle and the use of disassembly mapping. |
| 13:00 | Lunch at 'Porceleyne Fles' |
| 14:30 | Workshop 1B identifying hotspots Bas Flipsen Continue your analysis and applying hotspotmapping to identify the hotspots for a circular redesign in your product’s architecture. |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | Workshop 1C redesign Bas Flipsen Learn product architecture strategies and come up with suggestions to improve the circular readiness of your product, which you will pitch. |
| 17:00 | Plenary pitches, feedback & discussion, wrap-up |
| 17:30 | End of the first day |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:30 | Circular impact Ingrid de Pauw Understand how you can determine the potential of different value recovery strategies for your product |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:45 | Workshop – 2A Circular Impact Ingrid de Pauw. |
| 12:30 | Lunch at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering |
| 13:30 | Workshop – 2B Redesign Ingrid de Pauw Continue the exploration of circular strategies of an improved design and business model and finalize the development of a circular proposition for your case. Prepare a short pitch to share your findings. |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | Plenary pitches & Closing Debate - How to implement insights into design practice Bas Flipsen & Ingrid de Pauw Discussing key insights, opportunities, and bottlenecks for your design practice. |
| 17:00 | Closing and drinks |
| 17:30 | End of the Master Class |
Practical Information
Book
Participants receive the book "Products that Last" by Conny Bakker, Marcel den Hollander, Ed van Hinte and Yvo Zijlstra.
How to prepare
This is a highly practical course, in which we will use examples to guide you through the activities. You will apply what you learn to a product of your own. You will be asked to disassemble it and evaluate its circularity using the methods learned. Therefore we ask you to bring a product with you to the course (further details and tips for selecting a product will be shared with all participants).
Costs Master Class
| € 950 | standard |
| € 850 | for members of BNO, KIVI IO, HumanFactorsNL |
| € 750 | for IDE alumni |
Courses are VAT-free
Lunch, drinks, material and book are included
Reduction
| € 100 | for each additional Master Class per organisation in 2023 |
| € 100 | if you register before 01 March |