Practitioners Section Explained
If you are on this section, either you have gone through the First-timers section, or you already have knowledge on circular design and sustainability in general and want to find…
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02.Practitioners
Open Source Circular Economy Days
“Open Source Circular Economy Days is a global open project and community about the development and use of open source solutions and methodologies to create a shift to a global sustainable circular…
Learning Network on Sustainability International (LeNSin)
“LeNSin, the International Learning Network of networks Sustainability (2015-2018), is an EU-supported (ERASMUS+) project involving 36 universities from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Central America, aiming at the promotion…
Sea2see – A change agent in the eyewear industry
This is a case study prepared as a part of Circular Design – Learning for Innovative Design for Sustainability, led by the design studio Nutcreatives in collaboration with the other…
The Great Recovery: Investigating the role of design in the circular economy
“The Great Recovery is a two-year project run by the Action and Research Centre at the RSA and supported by the Technology Strategy Board. Its aim is to build a…
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Case Studies
70+ case studies on Circular Economy published on Ellen MacArthur Foundation website, divided into two categories: Business and Policy. Each case studies starts with an overview, highlighting the challenge faced…
SVID Sustainability Guide
The Sustainability Guide provides companies, designers and higher education institutions inspiration and tools to work sustainably. The web is a valuable source for those who want to learn more about…
Sustainable Manufacturing Glossary of Terms
Glossary of terms, bringing together terms used by different disciplines to explain sustainable manufacturing practices. A useful guide to learn and properly use different terms to explain design projects and…
Getting it right from the start: developing a circular economy for novel materials
“Novel materials go hand in hand with improving technologies. Carbon fibre enables lighter weight, more fuel efficient vehicles; bioplastics promise to be superior to fossil fuel derived plastics; and additive…
SolidWorks Sustainable Design Guide
” The ideas of sustainability and sustainable design are a growing part of today’s product design conversations. But exactly what is sustainable design, and how do you create a greener…
Circular Economy: Indicators and Priorities for Critical Materials
“This report reviews briefly the historical criteria for critical raw materials currently under review by the Commission and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), and notes that many critical materials still…
European Union REACH Regulation
“REACH is a regulation of the European Union, adopted to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by chemicals, while enhancing…
Materiom: Nature’s Recipe Book
“Make materials in your kitchen, Fab Lab or Makerspace. Our recipes use locally abundant natural ingredients and life-friendly chemistry. Plastics and composites you can cook on the stove, mold, laser…
MaterialWise
“Material Wise is a non-profit initiative to advance better chemistry in the course of product design and manufacturing by expanding access to verified, actionable chemical data. MaterialWise provides data-driven insight…
CFDA Guide to Sustainable Strategies & Sustainable Strategies Toolkit
“The CFDA Guide to Sustainable Strategies, authored by Domenica Leibowitz, seeks to provide a “how to” overview for sustainable fashion. The guide’s goal is to take the complex idea of sustainability…
Healthy Materials Lab
“ “We are Healthy Materials Lab, a design research lab at Parsons School of Design. We are dedicated to a world in which people’s health is placed at the center…
Design for Demand – Designers Lecture
“A strategic tool for emerging designers, to accelerate their ability to design for a more circular economy. Our design strategies focus on the consumer; looking to empower them, to influence…
AskNature Database
“Life on earth presents elegant solutions to many of the challenges that designers and innovators face every day. Explore AskNature to find biological strategies, inspired ideas, and resources relative to your own innovation challenges,…
IDEO Circular Design Guide
“The scale of what we’re designing has shifted from products, to companies, to economic systems. Who we’re designing for has expanded from a solitary user to an intimately connected web…
Human-Centered Design (HCD) Toolkit
“[This toolkit] contains the elements to Human-Centered Design, a process used for decades to create new solutions for multi-national corporations. This process has created ideas such as the HeartStart defibrillator,…
Design Method Toolkit
“The MediaLAB Amsterdam Design Method Toolkit enables you to get started and enrich your design process. A collection of design and research methods: categorised to help you select, time based…
UK Government Service Manual
A set of user research and design tools for developing digital services for UK Government’s website, openly shared with general public. While the website offers basic design solutions for digital…
Circular Economy Toolkit: Resources for an Evolving World
“With the vast number of possibilities for creating value out of the Circular Economy and cradle-to-cradle thinking, it can be challenging to assess all the options. The Circular Economy Toolkit…
Design with Intent
“Design is increasingly about people’s behaviour, but this is often considered simplistically. Design with Intent aims to give practitioners a more nuanced approach to design and behaviour, working with people, people’s understanding,…
The Thing from the Future
The Thing from the Future is an imagination game that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures. The objective of the game is…
Value Recapture Brainwriting
Value Recapture Brainwriting is a tool to facilitate a quick brainwriting exercise, where your team can draw and write down ideas and share them with each other. With the supporting…
Participatory Methods
“We explain what participatory methods are, where and how they are used, and their problems and potentials. We focus on participatory approaches to programme design, monitoring and evaluation; to learning,…
The Bootcamp Bootleg
“The Design Thinking Bootleg is an overview of some of our most-used tools. The guide was originally intended for recent graduates of our Bootcamp: Adventures in Design Thinking class. But…
Design-led Research Toolkit
Information on a collection of design research tools and guides for their application. These tools are categorized under four headings: Observe + Discover Frame + Propose Prototype + Act Evaluate…
Frog Collective Action Toolkit
A set of design thinking tools explained for the use of local change agents for social innovation. The toolkit has a simple vocabulary and insights into building teams, carrying out research,…
Delft Design Guide
“The design methods presented in this collection of articles can be very useful for you as a designer, both during your time as a student and as a practitioner. Our…
