Retrofitting from the Inside/Insight Perspective: Adapting to Users’ Needs with the Kitchen as a Starting Point

Other conference contribution, 2018

Premature renovation of kitchen furniture and appliances lead to waste and unnecessary climate impact. One important driver to premature kitchen renovations is a lack of understanding of user needs among designers, developers and kitchen producers. This project aims at developing a future circular kitchen based on user insights studies combined with co-creation sessions involving different stakeholders in the supply chain of kitchen production, maintenance, use and recycling. Implication of user insights on liveability of dwellings for the broader sustainable retrofitting agenda is discussed.