These days we are busy developing and finalising our design toolkit: the Use2Use design toolkit, which we will soon make available on this site and free for anyone to use. The toolkit consists of five tools that can aid designers and other agents to learn more about people’s consumption processes and what it means to […]
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Chalmers Sustainability
Day
On the 8th of November, it was time for this year’s edition of Chalmers Sustainability Day. This year’s theme was Circular Economy and the event included masterclasses in the morning and workshops sessions in the afternoon. Various topics were discussed, such as urban metabolism and resource flows, design opportunities and measures, and service-based value chains. […]
Runner-up for best paper award
We are proud to announce that our latest paper “A tool for charting circular consumption journeys” was nominated for the Best Conference Paper Award and received second place at this year’s ERSCP conference. The European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) is one of Europe’s key conferences that encourage discussion among stakeholders involved in […]
Want to design for Use2Use?
Do you want to explore how your company can contribute to a shift to a circular economy? Are you interested in learning more about how products or services can be designed to support circular consumption? Great! We are currently looking for Swedish companies that would like to join us in our next research venture and […]
Open invitation to Special Issue
The research team is guest editing a Special Issue in Sustainability: “Designing Products and Services for Circular Consumption”. In this Special Issue, people’s consumption processes and their implications for design take centre stage. We welcome contributions that address questions such as the following: What practicalities are associated with circular consumption, and how do these affect […]
A digital platform for sharing
equipment
In their master thesis project, Sara Lindgren and Olle Trens investigated how sharing of equipment and material within the cultural scene of West Sweden could be encouraged and increased through a digital platform, Returkultur. As part of their user studies they conducted workshops to explore user needs and requirements using early versions of the Circular […]
An inventory management app that supports
sharing
In their master thesis, Olivia Chalandon and Patricia Lidborg explored how people can be supported to share their belongings with others. In collaboration with the startup company Sortapp and with support from FutureMemories AB, Olivia and Patricia designed a new feature for the inventory management app Sortapp that enables people to easily store and mark […]
Designing for collaborative
consumption
In their Master thesis project, Elin Janebäck and Matilda Kristiansson explored how an autonomous delivery droid could be designed to support transfer of goods between people situated close to one another. They designed a top module for HUGO, an autonomous, last mile delivery robot concept currently under development by the Gothenburg based tech agency Berge. […]
Results of Cirkulera Mera!
In december 2018 we challenged pupils at the Peder Skrivares skola in the west of Sweden to try out circular consumption in two different ways during a week. They could, for instance, sell or give away unused items that might be useful for someone else, or they could borrow or buy items they needed from […]
Join our next seminar at Cradlenet Väst!
You are welcome to join our upcoming seminar on Use2Use thinking and design for circular consumption. On May 23 we will present our research in collaboration with Cradlenet Väst and Gullers Grupp. We will give an introduction to how circularity can be understood and addressed from a user perspective, and present our design toolkit currently […]
What does a user perspective entail for design?
Today, many products are designed for linear consumption, which often make people consider circular consumption processes more cumbersome and less preferable than linear ones. If linear instead of circular consumption processes are preferred, products will not be circulated and the transition to a circular economy will not gain momentum. To make circular consumption preferable it […]