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Sustainability and Circularity: New Material Scenarios for Product Design
No full textThe concept of sustainability is a continually evolving threshold in step with technology and the ability it provides for understanding the environment. Various disciplines have always contributed by bringing essential concepts and tools to approach the growing complexity of the design project and its continuous dialogue with the environment.
The world we live in, now devastated in all its parts by depletion and pollution related to the choices of an unsustainable economy, needs adequate design solutions consistent with the concept of sustainability and circularity. Although it has been talked about for a long time, however, significant research and contributions are still needed on new material solutions that make new products possible and establish new design methods and practices.
It has been estimated that 80% of the environmental impact of a product or service is determined in the design phase, which is why product design has a great responsibility and must try to guide the transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy.
This Special Issue aims to bring together research on the development of materials and processes that can foster the development of innovative products that can promote a circular economy. It includes research on rethought and updated traditional materials; interactive, connected and smart materials; self-produced materials using alternative resources such as waste and scrap; upcycling processes, living biological materials or those that have lived, capable of self-generating and growing.
The contributions will highlight these different possible ways of closing the cycles through a virtuous integration between product design, material science and economy. The concepts of sustainability and circularity can be interpreted both in an environmental and a social sense.
We, therefore, welcome articles on recent or ongoing research in the field of materials for design that highlight valid alternatives to the current unsustainable and linear solutions
Diseño, Innovación y Transdiciplinariedad II Relaciones del Diseño con la Naturaleza, la Biología y la Tecnología
No full textDiseño, Innovación y Transdisciplinariedad III: Biodiseño y producción en tiempos de crisis. Cuadernos Del Centro De Estudios De Diseño Y Comunicación
No full text+ Design - Waste: a project for upcycling refuse using design tools,
No full textThis work introduces and describes a number of projects, which are aimed at reusing waste materials in design objects, aiming at reducing the environmental impact of their disposal, by providing to them an added value. This would also allow verifying specific opportunities for development offered by this approach to innovation and revaluation of productive sectors, in particular focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating locally. A methodology was followed, which was based upon the integration of different know-how and oriented to promote the glitch of creativity process. Waste used included polystyrene disposable crockery, woodchips, molten rock powder and kaolin, steel plates and glass. This approach may offer results in different contexts, at different scales and in different market sectors, conferring added value to disposed materials, by ‘upcycling’ them. In this respect, it is also proposed that other applications, involving either the same materials or other wastes that are difficult to be collected and recycled are developed in the future
Processo per il conferimento di qualità ottiche dicroiche a manufatti con superfici morfologicamente complesse e manufatti così ottenuti
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DIY materials from potato skin waste for design
Full text linkThis work concerns the creation of a wall display for fruits, made in a DIY material structure, as the result of a 'material tinkering' process over waste to enable understanding possible application in a design context. The material and object are obtained starting from potato skins, as an example of waste very frequent in the food processing chain, in most local contexts. The display is specifically designed in a double layer configuration, partially translucent, coloured with food dyes and aromatised during the experimentation phase to ensure its suitability to the purpose. Some basic characterisation tests were also performed to allow for the possible development of a customised product from this material demonstrator. The process, in giving some value to a typical and very diffuse food chain waste, would therefore guarantee the upcycling of the relevant refuse. The structure is intended for application into a context of farm holiday site and aimed at presenting local products, ideally coming from the very farm fields involved
Valigia rigida con ripartizione interna
No full textvaligia innovativa suddivisa in comparti interni attraverso un sistema di mensole integrate nella struttura delle scocche stampat
Design and gastrophysics innovation and sustainability of multisensory food systems|DESIGN E GASTROFISICA Innovazione e sostenibilita dei sistemi alimentari multisensoriali
No full textIn recent years, Design has assumed an increasingly significant role in the field of food systems, contributing through the formulation of strategies and approaches as well as the creation of innovative artefacts and solutions. This integration is evident in the most advanced iterations of food culture, such as Molecular Cuisine, nutraceuticals, and Sci-Fi Food, which apply scientific tools and principles of Design to food production and consumption processes. From this perspective, the paper explores the emerging scientific field of Gastro- physics, interpreting it not only as an analytical tool but also as a design methodology to foster sustainable innovations in Food Design. The contribution also provides an overview of the state of the art of sustainable food systems, with a focus on recent experiments and projects that, through the synergies between Gastrophysics and Communication Design, Service Design, Technological Innovation, and Medical Design, can open up new holistic and systemic perspectives for research fields that can develop synergies between the different Sustainable Development Goals
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