By enabling or strengthening circular economic principles in the everyday lives of citizens and within organisations through circular design.
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By enabling or strengthening circular economic principles in the everyday lives of citizens and within organisations through circular design.
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Consumerism has played a pivotal role in its contribution to climate change, natural resource depletion, biodiversity loss, social injustices and inequality. Our role is to make positive change and be a contributing factor in transitions to more sustainable and just futures.
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We conduct our research through both client-based and self-directed projects where we seek to locate and understand current unsustainable practises and address these problems by designing alternatives that are future practical.
Key research strands:
Systems
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Material sourcing, supply chains, distributed/localised
Product
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Materiality, design for reuse, design for repurpose, design for durability/repair.
Practice
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Participatory design, open design, design for social innovation.
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We believe responsible design is about bringing together peoples' knowledge in a creative and interdisciplinary space.
Collaboration relies on sharing and we advocate that transparency should be a mandatory business practise to address the world's challenges; to accelerate innovation and so that people can make informed decisions.
These challenges are complex problems which do not have solutions, rather they need to be continually addressed through interventions and researching effects. Instead of "solutions" we present "prolusions", proposals for change that can be trialled and iterated upon in the creative commons.