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Project Sustainable Design Management

This document summarizes a journal article about design for sustainability (DfS). It discusses DfS as the interface between sustainable production and consumption that requires redesigning consumer goods, services, and infrastructure. DfS aims to meet sustainability challenges by ensuring equivalent environmental services for future generations and equitable access to resources. The document then outlines how DfS embeds sustainability into the design process by considering environmental and social impacts throughout a product's lifecycle. It also discusses obstacles and opportunities for adopting DfS practices. Finally, it presents SCALES, a set of principles for sustainable design developed through the DEEDS project to provide guidance for designers.

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Project Sustainable Design Management

This document summarizes a journal article about design for sustainability (DfS). It discusses DfS as the interface between sustainable production and consumption that requires redesigning consumer goods, services, and infrastructure. DfS aims to meet sustainability challenges by ensuring equivalent environmental services for future generations and equitable access to resources. The document then outlines how DfS embeds sustainability into the design process by considering environmental and social impacts throughout a product's lifecycle. It also discusses obstacles and opportunities for adopting DfS practices. Finally, it presents SCALES, a set of principles for sustainable design developed through the DEEDS project to provide guidance for designers.

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Project Sustainable Design

Management
Design for Sustainability ( DfS):
the interface of sustainable production
and consumption
S p a n g e n b e r g , J . H ., F u a d - Lu k e , A . , an d B l i nc oe , K .
(2010), Journal of Cleaner Production, 18, 1485 -1493.

Outline
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Introduction
DfS: embedding design in sustainability
DfS: embedding sustainability in design
DEEDS (DEsign, EDucation & Sustainbility)
Outlook

1. Introduction

Everything was fine, because in the ancient past there


were no designers. (Schmidt & Drommert 2009)
Function service to solve a problem Design
Tomorrows sustainable consumption and production
requires a massive redesign of consumer goods and
industrial practices, of services and infrastructures.
Challenge for sustainability
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Equivalent services from the environment for future generations


Equitable access to the worlds resources as a kind of human right
to resource use

On the environmental side, not only avoid toxics and


enhance eco-efficiency, but also need to limit and indeed
to reduce the entropy generation stemming from the
resource throughput of our economics.
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Environmental impacts of resource consumption


and mitigation strategies

2. Design for Sustainability: embedding design in


sustainability
Design is increasingly recognized as a relevant factor in business

competition, and ecodesign acknowledged to be crucial element


for green technology/green growth leadership.
Japan, US, China, and EU have plans for the next five or ten
years.
Ecodesign () is an approach dealing with environmental
and economic effects (eco-efficiency) based on a life
cycle analysis of cost and impacts.
DfS () addresses all dimensions of sustainability,
looking at bigger systems and asking more fundamental
questions about consumption and production.
Although 90% of the life cycle wide energy consumption takes
place in the use phase, this consumption is up to 90% determined
in the design phase. (Tischner 2001)
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Eco-efficiency of production

Provision and production efficiency are at the heart of the

environmental dimension of sustainable production.


In a narrow sense, eco-efficiency refers to production efficiency, and
can be increased by process, product and organizational innovations.
In a broader sense, provision efficiency reducing the amount of
activated but unused material, the ecological backpack, is part of ecoefficiency, and can be improved by more efficient technologies or
finding use options for by-products.
Product efficiency increases with engineering and design improvements
(ecodesign).
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Eco-efficiency of consumption

Supply/use efficiency relates to the standard of living.

Sustainable consumption is about choosing true satisfiers, not about

neglecting needs.
Satisfier efficiency (not products or services as such): satisfaction is the
key to quality of life, and satisfaction is growing with access to goods
and services in line with consumers needs and support their individual
and social identity.
DfS plays its most important role in combining the effects of satisfier
efficiency with the supply and product efficiencies.
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Efficiencies, their contribution to quality of life,


and the contribution of design

Sustainable consumption: consumers choice

Life styles are shaped by context and habit, and changes


require at least three conditions:
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In Europe
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The personal motivation and information


The ability to change given the restrictions of social context
The opportunity, i.e., the availability of alternatives at competitive prices
Condition 1 is covered by information campaigns
Condition 2 is limited by the social acceptance and desirability
Condition 3 is addressed by labeling to make existing products more
easily recognizable.

Design plays a significant role in regulating both materials


and symbolic resources through form-giving, raising
awareness, changing perceptions of value and integrating
these elements. (Table 1)

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3. Design for Sustainability: embedding


sustainability in design
Considerations and impact assessment of all

dimensions from resource mining to the final product


and its consumption.
The use of appropriate technology, materials and
production processes to achieve zero-carbon emissions
and minimal non-renewable resource use.
DfS requires rethinking established practices, and the
inclusion of additional criteria into the design process.
It also creates an additional level of complexity.

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Ecodesign Design for Sustainability

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Obstacles
DfS is tangential () to rather embedded in

mainstream design education and practice. (only taught in


few design institutions)
Design educational culture encourage the expression of the
ego () and the aesthetic () as well as functionality (
); sustainability emphasizes on societal and global
needs.
Design tutors tend to have a defensive attitude towards
sustainability (), especially in areas where they do
not have the capability.
Sustainability is compartmentalized and relegated to ()
technology subjects, rather than integrated into professional
practice or a cultural context.

Opportunities
Opening mass market to green and/or low-carbon products.
Product DfS responds to issues of justice and equity as illustrated in

Table 2.
DfS is not restricted to designers, but involves consumers as well.

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4. DEEDS
DEEDS (DEsign, Education & Sustainability) was a project

funded by the EU Leonardo program from 2006 to 2008.


They build on a knowledge base in sustainability and
sustainable consumption research and on proven design
methodologies.
Providing the missing link between sustainable production
and consumption.
Based on target groups (design teachers, design students,
and practicing designers) and questionnaire analysis to
indentify information needs and provide knowledge, tools
and skills for DfS.
The result is a list of principles: SCALES
Earlier suggestions of ecodesign and DfS principles are
covered by SCALES.
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SCALES-1

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SCALES-2

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SCALES-3

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5. Outlook

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