Webinar
Consumer Goods, Manufacturing,
Designers: self-employed, part of companies, students, research partners, professionals from the furniture industry,
'Repurpose' is a circular strategy, better known to the general public as upcycling. It involves using discarded products or parts of them to make a new product with a different function and/or context.
'Repurpose' is a circular strategy, better known to the general public as upcycling. It involves using discarded products or parts of them to make a new product with a different function and/or context.
This strategy is a still underexposed strategy on the R-ladder for circularity. High time to change that. On Tuesday, November 21, 2023, an online CIRCONNECT Expert Café is included, provided by Hogeschool van Amsterdam. They do a lot of research on Repurpose and are happy to share their knowledge on the subject. Using practical examples, Jeroen van Vorsselen and Marco van Hees will take you through different forms of Repurpose. They focus on physical product design, as well as organizational and revenue models. They also give a sneak preview of the method developed for designers and other professionals to get started with Repurpose.
The Expert Café featured the following speakers:
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Watch the webinar You go to a Dutch versionThe 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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