Ordoñez, M.I., Rexfelt, O. & Rahe, U. (2012). From Industrial Waste to Product Design. Conference paper presented in the DesignEd Asia Conference 2012: Incorporating Disciplinary Dynamics Into Design Education, School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-Hong Kong Design Institute. Hong Kong, 2012.
To use waste as a starting point for new product development would be a sustainable use of material resources that alleviates waste handling loads. So far, products that use waste as a starting point have not been able to significantly affect waste trends. This shows a need for methods that facilitate using waste materials for product development. With this in mind, the project “From Industrial Waste to Product Design” was initiated. Industrial design engineering students are encouraged to do their master theses on exploring product development with currently unused waste. This article suggests a methodology to help designers achieve this. Two approaches were undertaken: a product study to review the state of the art in designing with waste; and an analysis of traditional design processes. In the end, an expanded design process was proposed, since a description of a systematic process for this issue was lacking among researchers or practitioners.
Ordoñez, I., Rexfelt, O. & Rahe, U.(2014). Waste as a starting point: educating industrial design engineering students to be active agents in closing material loops. In E. Bohemia, A. Eger, W. Eggink, A. Kovacevic, B. Parkinson and W. Wits (eds.), DS 78: Proceedings of the E&PDE 2014 16th International conference on Engineering and Product Design (pp. 360-365) University of Twente, The Netherlands: Design Education and Human Technology Relations, Westbury, UK: Institution of Engineering Designers, The Design Society.
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Ordoñez, I., & Rahe, U. (2013). Collaboration between design and waste management: Can it help close the material loop? Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 72, 108–117. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.01.002
Rexfelt, O., Kääpä, J., Leo, L., Ordoñez, M.I. & Rahe, U. (2013). Proceedings from the IASDR Conference 2013, Consilience and Innovation in Design, 24-30 August 2013. Tokyo: Japanese Society for the Science of Design.
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