Case
Manufacturing,
Companies, designers
While participating in a CIRCO Track, shipbuilder Damen found out that circularity is already in the company's DNA: their passenger ships are designed to last a long time and for parts to be easily repaired and replaced. So how can things still be done better? Three designers at Damen got to work on circular business models and ways to make interiors circular.
The three designers worked on a concrete case: DeWaterbus.
Confronting during the Track was that it turned out that throughout the construction and design process, and then during the useful life of a ferry, there is quite a lot of loss of value that we don't have mapped out right now. At the same time, very clear opportunities emerged, and we have now addressed them.
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The circular economy does not arise by itself. CIRCO (a program of TKI-CLICKNL) focuses on getting a new market moving. CIRCO therefore activates - with the support of the government - entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re)design products, services and business models in order to then do circular business.
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