Circular design nexus: Converging Sustainable Product development, User Behavior, and Environmental Impact
Forskningsprojekt, 2024
– 2025
In this project, we aim to understand the need for new capabilities and tools for how product development teams in companies will be able to anticipate users’ behavior from a sustainability perspective when the product is managed in a circular manner, and thereby be able to steer users’ behavior in a more sustainable direction. This project will generate knowledge that can be integrated in design and product development guidelines and decision-support tools for product development teams. In this pre-project we will also conduct literature reviews, and state-of-practice studies to clarify our preliminary research questions:
1. In which ways is a behavioral change perspective included in current sustainable design methods and tools? 2. How are, and how can, product-developing companies be supported in understanding their products’ roles in people’s everyday lives and the sustainability related behaviors? 3. How are, and how can, product-developing companies be supported in assessing the resource efficiency and environmental impact of user behaviors? 4. In which ways can product-developing companies be supported in designing products that enable more sustainable user behaviors?
Deltagare
Sophie Isaksson Hallstedt (kontakt)
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling
Giliam Dokter
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling
Adeline Jerome
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Environmental Systems Analysis
Maria Ljunggren
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Environmental Systems Analysis
Oskar Rexfelt
Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Design & Human Factors
Finansiering
Energimyndigheten
Projekt-id: P2024-00760
Finansierar Chalmers deltagande under 2024–2025
Relaterade styrkeområden och infrastruktur
Hållbar utveckling
Drivkrafter
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