Knowledge card
Consumer goods,
Students, professionals
Want to learn more about circular design? Together with Partners for Innovation, the Green Brain and experts from the knowledge platform CIRCONNECT, Rijkswaterstaat has developed the Circular Design Knowledge Map. Here you can see where you can gain knowledge to design consumer products and services circularly. For MBO, HBO, WO educations, e-courses and professional training, a map has been mapped where you can (re)train.
Designers have a crucial job to give and maintain economic, environmental and social value to consumer products. The Knowledge Map Circular Design shows where you can gain knowledge to design consumer products and services circularly. For MBO, HBO, WO educations, e-courses and professional training courses are mapped where you can (re)train.
The knowledge map was released by Rijkswaterstaat together with Partners for Innovation, the Green Brain and experts from the CIRCONNECT knowledge platform.
Why circular design?
To prepare society for a circular economy with sustainable products and services, circular design must become a logical starting point for producers and material processors. See also the animation Circular Design how to carefully choose materials and products, how to use them sustainably and what choices you can make to keep their value as long as possible. And finally, what you can do after use to give materials and products a useful next life.
48 courses
The interactive Circular Design knowledge map lists 48 courses with a brief description of their curriculum content. Some of them deal exclusively with the Circular Economy (core theme), others deal with CE within an existing curriculum (sub-theme). The HBO stands out with 23 courses, followed by the (technical) universities with 10. The MBO remains somewhat behind with 3 courses. The seven online courses and five professional training programs complete the chart.
More information
Want to know where you can (re)train? Then take a look at the map here. Want to know more about the knowledge map or circular design? Then contact mireille.reijme@rws.nl.
Rijkswaterstaat's Circular Economy and Waste Department is the knowledge center on circular economy and waste. Our ambition is to close the cycles of raw materials and thus bring a circular economy closer. Together with its partners in the supply chain, Rijkswaterstaat is working to close material and product chains by carrying out projects on circular design, sustainable procurement and the recycling of chains such as plastic and textiles.
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