We will be joining IVA’s event Research 2 Business Summit September 2. The event includes an open to all morning session covering interesting discussions on how to apply research findings in industry to strengthen and contribute to more sustainable businesses. During the afternoon, invited industry representatives can join us for two special sessions with presentations […]
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Join us for Cradlenet’s next member meeting
We will be joining Cradlenet’s next member meeting on June 3 2020 focused on circular design. We will talk about how a Use2Use mindset can help companies to develop more user-centric circular offers. We will also introduce our design toolkit and organise mini-brainstorm sessions facilitated by our Circular Designs Ideation Pack. During the member meeting […]
New special issue
Everyone interested in designing for the circular economy should check out this special issue in Sustainability, which was guest edited by Oskar Rexfelt and Anneli Selvefors. All papers included in the issue address the topic of how to design products and services for circular consumption. They provide insights from new case studies and exploratory studies […]
Thank you for a great event!
Many thanks to everyone that came to the official release of the Use2Use Design Toolkit on March 4! If was great to talk to so many people curious to learn more about how to make use of our tools to design for Use2Use. Those of you that could not join the event, don’t worry – […]
New project: Design for Circular
Consumption
Yay! We have received new funding from Familjen Kamprads stiftelse to dissiminate our newly released design tools and try them out together with companies. During three years, we will explore in what ways the tools can be of value in development processes and assess the extent to which developed offers can contribute to circularity. We […]
The Use2Use Design Toolkit
We are proud to introduce the Use2Use Design Toolkit! The Use2Use Design Toolkit includes five mind-expanding packs designed to support development of products and services for circular consumption. The tools accentuate the role of users in the circular economy, thus providing an important complement to the focus on production and business models which often prevails […]
IVA’S 2020 TOP 100 LIST
IVA (the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences) has just released their list of 100 Swedish research projects that in different ways address sustainability and can be of value to society and industry by contributing new knowledge and highlighting new business opportunities. Our research on how to design for Use2Use is represented within the category […]
Welcome to the official release of our toolkit!
YAY! It is finally time for the official release of the Use2Use Design Toolkit. We hope that you want to join us for an inspirational and festive afternoon to celebrate. We will start off by presenting our research on how to understand and design for product circularity from a user perspective. Next, we will introduce […]
New project: Kvarterets Konsumtion 2030
We are happy to announce that we have received funding from Västra Götalandsregionen for the project “Kvarterets Konsumtion 2030” (Consumption in the Neighborhood 2030)! The project will be led by Science Park Borås and aims to explore opportunities for smaller towns to support sustainable consumption in local neighborhoods. Four smaller towns in the west of […]
Goodbye 2019 Hello 2020!
As 2019 is coming to an end it’s becoming more apparent than ever that radical changes are needed asap in order for us to mitigate climate change and reach the SDG targets set for 2030. Although we are alarmed by how slowly world leaders react and how much remains to be done, we feel very […]
EcoDesign 2019
We recently attended the EcoDesign 2019 conference to discuss and learn more about the latest research and industry initiatives on the topic of ecodesign. This year’s conference theme was “Is EcoDesign enough for sustainability?” and around 200 presentations were held on topics such as policies for circular economy, product-service systems, circular consumption, and more. Anneli […]