A well-designed and created object or communication is a pleasure to experience. It offers a dialogue between its self as a useful object and the user’s awareness without dominating one’s time or intentions. Every product has a lifecycle beginning with the extraction and refinement of materials with machines and ending either as garbage or is mixed with similar materials for lower grade recycling. Businesses that care for the entire lifecycle of the products they make close the resource cycles and ensure that all materials used in the design and production are won back «valorised» into next-generation useful materials. Achieving this integrity of product and service design has several advantages and profits. It includes upstream procurement and downstream sales and service partners in re-working their material, energy and influence flows and helps them become more effective and circular. Circular Business development is by nature change-management. It combines Human Centred/Design Thinking with Systems Practices and Social Transformation Methodologies. It happens in collaboration with everyone along the value chain when customers and partners begin informing the design and production processes it blurs the line between producers and consumers. Just as in nature the waste of one, becomes the food for the next if the materials are non-toxic to the system and all aspects are locally and community managed. Thanks to the digital transformation, the social and natural sciences and our understanding of eco-systems both in business and in nature we can design, test and build these regenerative futures.
I work from Impact Hubs and with Collaboratio Helvetica in a professional network including UX/UI designers & developers, dialogue facilitators and social lab partnerships for deep learning and change. This peer network allows me to work «Lean» collaborating with teams and partner organizations. My current sectors of work for UN-SDGs 11-12 #Sustainable Cities-Communities and #Circular Economy include; local food systems change, reducing traveller impacts, reframing generation ≥55 and accounting tools for sustainable living.
Circular business development begins with telling the stories of company operations, upstream and downstream stakeholders and its mission. But insights come when reframing the stories of materials used, supply flows and processing in a life cycle analysis including human social and environmental impacts. Team members gain insights about their own frameworks through Human Centered Design process for customers. The process supports change management and service design insights together. It’s a collaborative, inclusive and integrating process.
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Circular Design-Systems Thinking
Humanity Centered Design
Open Social Innovation
Eco-Product Design + Prototyping
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