Product and service

In a circular economy, everything is about value retention. Good product design ensures that you can reuse products, components and materials again and again at a high value. With smart services and processes, you also create a more intensive and long-term involvement with all players in the chain: from supplier to end user. Thinking about all life phases of a product is essential here. This starts with Rethinking your product or service and making well-considered material choices and extends to user behavior and end-of-life solutions for optimal value retention.

Designs for all phases

Below you will find circular design knowledge for products and services that will help you make sustainable design decisions for the different phases.

16 contributions

Rethink

What is the function of your product or service? And can it be delivered in a completely different way? Rethink your complete product-service concept to arrive at a circular design or alternative solution.

55 contributions

Material selection and impact

Choose your materials carefully and with an eye to optimal functionality with minimal environmental impact. With this knowledge and tools you will gain insight into the environmental impact of your product and specific materials.

31 contributions

Usage and behavior

How does a user interact with your product? Make design choices that extend product use and develop services that ensure the quality of your product.

24 contributions

End of use

If a user is done with your product, it doesn't mean the product no longer has value. This knowledge helps you design products and services for reuse and recycling. And to encourage users to actually do so.

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01 Nov -13 Dec

Training
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Online

Circular Product Design Assessment (profED).

This online course for design professionals will teach you to assess products for their circularity and give you tools for redesign so that the product fits into a circular economy. By deassembling your own case study, you will learn to use our tools, such as Hotspot & Disassembly Mapping, and the Circularity Calculator (CC)

Circular Product Design & Assessment

Within this online course you will learn how to use Hotspot and Disassembly mapping to find circular hotspot activities and parts in the product architecture. Based on the Bill of Materials of your product case study, you will evaluate the eventual economic value capture when applying repair, refurb, reman and recycling in your design.