A Guide to Circular Design
Rethink how to design from the beginning. Circular design replaces the traditional linear format with a systems approach focusing on regenerative and restorative methods. Using a four-stage process and five core principles that consider the impact on the entire ecosystem throughout the life cycle. Understanding the broader environmental, social, and economic systems involves considering its interconnectedness throughout its lifecycle. This requires designers to integrate feedback loops, understand material life cycles, and anticipate unintended consequences.
This 62-page guidebook will walk you through each stage of the circular design process and its core principles. Whether you are creating a business, product, packaging, processes, services, or systems, it will help you develop the lifecycle of what you are building, allowing you to understand its impact and how to align with your values. It includes templates to support thoughtful engagement with the questions to evaluate, adjust, and implement decisions throughout the design process independently.
Rethink how to design from the beginning. Circular design replaces the traditional linear format with a systems approach focusing on regenerative and restorative methods. Using a four-stage process and five core principles that consider the impact on the entire ecosystem throughout the life cycle. Understanding the broader environmental, social, and economic systems involves considering its interconnectedness throughout its lifecycle. This requires designers to integrate feedback loops, understand material life cycles, and anticipate unintended consequences.
This 62-page guidebook will walk you through each stage of the circular design process and its core principles. Whether you are creating a business, product, packaging, processes, services, or systems, it will help you develop the lifecycle of what you are building, allowing you to understand its impact and how to align with your values. It includes templates to support thoughtful engagement with the questions to evaluate, adjust, and implement decisions throughout the design process independently.
Rethink how to design from the beginning. Circular design replaces the traditional linear format with a systems approach focusing on regenerative and restorative methods. Using a four-stage process and five core principles that consider the impact on the entire ecosystem throughout the life cycle. Understanding the broader environmental, social, and economic systems involves considering its interconnectedness throughout its lifecycle. This requires designers to integrate feedback loops, understand material life cycles, and anticipate unintended consequences.
This 62-page guidebook will walk you through each stage of the circular design process and its core principles. Whether you are creating a business, product, packaging, processes, services, or systems, it will help you develop the lifecycle of what you are building, allowing you to understand its impact and how to align with your values. It includes templates to support thoughtful engagement with the questions to evaluate, adjust, and implement decisions throughout the design process independently.
