The concept of sustainability is a continually evolving threshold in step with technology and the ability it provides for understanding the environment. Various disciplines have always contributed by bringing essential concepts and tools to approach the growing complexity of the design project and its continuous dialogue with the environment. The world we live in, now devastated in all its parts by depletion and pollution related to the choices of an unsustainable economy, needs adequate design solutions consistent with the concept of sustainability and circularity. Although it has been talked about for a long time, however, significant research and contributions are still needed on new material solutions that make new products possible and establish new design methods and practices. It has been estimated that 80% of the environmental impact of a product or service is determined in the design phase, which is why product design has a great responsibility and must try to guide the transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy. This Special Issue aims to bring together research on the development of materials and processes that can foster the development of innovative products that can promote a circular economy. It includes research on rethought and updated traditional materials; interactive, connected and smart materials; self-produced materials using alternative resources such as waste and scrap; upcycling processes, living biological materials or those that have lived, capable of self-generating and growing. The contributions will highlight these different possible ways of closing the cycles through a virtuous integration between product design, material science and economy. The concepts of sustainability and circularity can be interpreted both in an environmental and a social sense. We, therefore, welcome articles on recent or ongoing research in the field of materials for design that highlight valid alternatives to the current unsustainable and linear solutions.
Sustainability and Circularity: New Material Scenarios for Product Design / Rognoli, V.; Langella, C.. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - (2023).
Sustainability and Circularity: New Material Scenarios for Product Design
Langella C.
2023
Abstract
The concept of sustainability is a continually evolving threshold in step with technology and the ability it provides for understanding the environment. Various disciplines have always contributed by bringing essential concepts and tools to approach the growing complexity of the design project and its continuous dialogue with the environment. The world we live in, now devastated in all its parts by depletion and pollution related to the choices of an unsustainable economy, needs adequate design solutions consistent with the concept of sustainability and circularity. Although it has been talked about for a long time, however, significant research and contributions are still needed on new material solutions that make new products possible and establish new design methods and practices. It has been estimated that 80% of the environmental impact of a product or service is determined in the design phase, which is why product design has a great responsibility and must try to guide the transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy. This Special Issue aims to bring together research on the development of materials and processes that can foster the development of innovative products that can promote a circular economy. It includes research on rethought and updated traditional materials; interactive, connected and smart materials; self-produced materials using alternative resources such as waste and scrap; upcycling processes, living biological materials or those that have lived, capable of self-generating and growing. The contributions will highlight these different possible ways of closing the cycles through a virtuous integration between product design, material science and economy. The concepts of sustainability and circularity can be interpreted both in an environmental and a social sense. We, therefore, welcome articles on recent or ongoing research in the field of materials for design that highlight valid alternatives to the current unsustainable and linear solutions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
