SERVICE DESIGN AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
A circular economy is a systemic model created in response to environmental deterioration caused by the unsustainable use of natural resources. It is regenerative and aims to decouple growth from finite resources.
Milan – Italy / 2020 Service Design Tools.
Working group tasks: Primary and secondary research, ideation sessions, ecosystem map, journey map, service blueprint, and a road map.
Team – Andrea Pastor, Asif Muhammad, Karthik Rao, and Gabriel Benavides.
CHALLENGE
How can service designers help organizations adopt a circular approach?. What can help assess the impact of service and develop strategies for intervention?
OUTCOME
1. A guide that introduces four principles or fundamental mindset changes the users should consider when adopting the Circular Economy into their work.
2. A toolkit with the explanation of four key tools to use in a Circular Economy project.
3. A tutorial focused on approaching and researching projects with a circular mindset that can be added and modified in an existing service model.
1. Circular guidelines
The most exciting aspect of running a new project is precisely this reason; it is new and unique. And when designing for the Circular Economy, the requirements change, and the possibilities may expand, but in turn, the constraints are stronger. Although there are many methods, guidelines, and toolkits for design, the biggest challenge as a designer is understanding the particular aspects and elements that make a project unique to learn how to approach and design for it.
Keep the pinwheel moving is a collection of guidelines for designers and anyone who wants to approach a circular economy project but doesn’t quite know how or where to start.
We will explore the research and ideation design phases, sharing guidelines and tips to create your process in the search for adopting circular economy.
2. CIRCULAR TOOLKIT
Each tool has a general explanation as well as more specific features:
- Applied for.
- Also called.
- How to use.
- Tool tips.
3. CIRCULAR Tutorial
A circular economy is a system in which efforts are made to continually use resources, eliminating waste and allowing it to look beyond the contemporary take-make-waste model. This tutorial focuses on just approaching and researching projects with a circular mindset while identifying and defining the various aspects that can be added and modified in an existing service model.