Creating a circular design workspace : lessons learned from setting up a 'bio-makerspace'
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- Bert Vuylsteke (UGent) , Louise Dumon (UGent) , Jan Detand (UGent) and Francesca Ostuzzi (UGent)
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- In today’s industrial short-lived products, long-lasting materials are often implemented (e.g., oil-based plastics for throwaway packaging). Circular economy teaches the importance of keeping these materials in use, as well as designing end-of-lives that regenerate natural systems. Designers can help drive to a circular transition, but are they ready for this challenge? Educating young designers on circularity seems a fundamental first step, including knowing and meaningfully using circular, bio-based and biodegradable materials. This substantiates the decision to expand the UGent Campus Kortrijk Design workspace to include specific technologies for circular, bio-based and biodegradable materials as a means of experiential learning during the prototyping phase. This paper reports on setting up a “bio-makerspace” as well as the use, adaption and redesign by 45 students. Qualitative data on work dynamics, used tools, materials, barriers and enablers were captured and analyzed to potentially facilitate the implementation of similar “bio-makerspaces” in different institutions. The next steps include the expansion and intensification of the use of the lab, in conjunction with the education of students to meaningfully match these materials to sustainable applications beyond the prototyping phase.
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- circular economy, circular design, circular materials, design workspace, prototyping, bio-makerspace, bio-based materials, DIY-materials
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8741307
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- Vuylsteke, Bert, et al. “Creating a Circular Design Workspace : Lessons Learned from Setting up a ‘Bio-Makerspace.’” SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 14, no. 4, 2022, doi:10.3390/su14042229.
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- Vuylsteke, B., Dumon, L., Detand, J., & Ostuzzi, F. (2022). Creating a circular design workspace : lessons learned from setting up a “bio-makerspace.” SUSTAINABILITY, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042229
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- Vuylsteke, Bert, Louise Dumon, Jan Detand, and Francesca Ostuzzi. 2022. “Creating a Circular Design Workspace : Lessons Learned from Setting up a ‘Bio-Makerspace.’” SUSTAINABILITY 14 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042229.
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- Vuylsteke, Bert, Louise Dumon, Jan Detand, and Francesca Ostuzzi. 2022. “Creating a Circular Design Workspace : Lessons Learned from Setting up a ‘Bio-Makerspace.’” SUSTAINABILITY 14 (4). doi:10.3390/su14042229.
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- 1.Vuylsteke B, Dumon L, Detand J, Ostuzzi F. Creating a circular design workspace : lessons learned from setting up a “bio-makerspace.” SUSTAINABILITY. 2022;14(4).
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- [1]B. Vuylsteke, L. Dumon, J. Detand, and F. Ostuzzi, “Creating a circular design workspace : lessons learned from setting up a ‘bio-makerspace,’” SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 14, no. 4, 2022.
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