Design for a Sustainable Circular Economy: Research and Practice Consequences

by Gavin Brett Melles (Editor), Christian Wölfel (Editor)

Overview

This multi-authored book aims to illustrate the social, economic, and ecological factors that should determine and be determined by design in the implementation of a sustainable circular economy and society. We take design to refer to a continuum of perspectives and applications from industrial design to policy design, and this broad perspective invites theoretical and methodological contributions from a range of fields. In addition to bringing scholarly diversity to circularity, we expand and challenge the mainstream circular economy narrative of material efficiencies and green growth to include the demands of inclusive growth and ecological boundaries consistent with sustainable development. Readers from within and beyond design, conscious of the limitations of circular green growth will find new inspiration in this book regarding the nature of a sustainable circular economy and society and the broad design agenda that must be implemented to enable a just and informed circular transition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819975310
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	12/30/2023
Series:	Design Science and Innovation
Edition description:	1st ed. 2024
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gavin Brett Melles Ph.D. (Education), M.Sc. (Sustainable Development), is a professor (adjunct) of sustainability and social innovation at Swinburne University’s Design School. He was recently (2021–2022) a senior international fellow in sustainability at the Technical Design Department of Technical University Dresden. He is a research affiliate at the Centre for Design Innovations and Manufacturing Futures Research Institute at Swinburne University. His research and teaching interests include education, sustainability, and related issues.

Christian Wölfel Ph.D., is a trained industrial designer, researcher, and lecturer at the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His research relates to the design and experience of complex systems in professional domains. It is grounded in cognitive and social sciences and aims for sustainable solutions. He teaches design fundamentals, design theory, and design research in interdisciplinary settings. He is a board member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) and works occasionally as a consultant for B2B companies.

Table of Contents

Designing the sustainable circular economy: from products to politics.- Beyond eco-design towards designing sustainable circular production-consumption systems.- Connecting global sustainability with circular product design.- Mapping Circular economy and the role of design in Portugal.- Circular Packaging in the Cosmetics Industry – A Systematic Review on Challenges and the Current State of Sustainable Strategies and Solutions