Poster en begeleidende audio uit de guided tour van het Open Atelier van CoE Groen op 7 december 2023 over het project Voorkomen voedselverspilling in de keten. Inzicht krijgen in de omvang en oorzaken van voedselverspilling op ketenniveau, met als doel deze verspilling te verminderen. Dit is waar het …

Is er genoeg gekwalificeerd personeel om repareerbare spullen te ontwerpen en ze te repareren? ‘In het onderwijs is daarvoor alleen maar een accentverschuiving nodig’, zegt commercieel ontwerper en lector Circulair Design Marcel den Hollander. Hoofdstuk uit: White paper: Reparatie in de circulaire …

“Wat zijn voor industrieel ontwerpers de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van strategieën voor het circulair ontwerpen van producten en hoe kan het effect van die strategieën op de circulariteit onderling vergeleken worden?“ Deze vraag staat centraal. Dit ‘kookboek’ is resultaat van het Go-CI project design …

Upcycling has been embraced by circular economy enthusiasts, policy-makers and collaborative initiatives across Europe. Early studies describe upcycling as a concept aimed at resource conservation by keeping products, components and materials at their highest potential value across consecutive product …

The Amsterdam Deysselbuurt, part of Nieuw-West, is undergoing major renovations and demolition/rebuild for the coming 10 years. Together with Rochdale, de Gemeente Amsterdam and other partners, the Robot Lab works on a case study to work towards (temporarily) urban structures, created from wood from …

Within European cities, entrepreneurs engage in private and public collaborative initiatives that work towards reducing local solid waste streams (Futurium, 2019). Furniture and interior design products account for nearly 50% of these waste streams, making them a key priority on the EU agenda to prevent …

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling. This opens opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI-framework …

Making food packaging more sustainable is a complex process. Research has shown that specific knowledge is needed to support packaging developers to holistically improve the sustainability of packaging. Within this study we aim to provide insights in the various tradeoffs designers face with the aim …

The Future of Design Education working group on sustainability developed recommendations for integrating sustainability into higher education design curricula. The recommendations provide a foundation for design instruc- tion, using well-established evidence-based tools, methods, and mindsets that apply …

The European Commission aims for a full circular economy (CE), an economy that aims to reuse all resources in 2050. CE is a promising way to increase welfare and wellbeing while decreasing environmental footprints. Industrial symbiosis, in which companies exchange residuals for resource efficiency, is …