Sustainable Design: Designing Sustainable Products and Services
April 23, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Sustainable design processes can improve the sustainability of products and services whilst helping designers and manufacturers reduce costs.
Following on from the highly successful invitation-only forum in 2008, BSI British Standards is holding a sustainable design conference and an accompanying workshop to explore best practice across the design industry.
As well as updating delegates on the latest sustainable design initiatives and the standards available to assist design processes, the conference includes practical case studies which illustrate how and where sustainability can be built into the design process.
This year, the event will feature streamed sessions on four key design areas: product design; packaging; services and events; and communication and graphic design.
Plenary sessions will explore how businesses can design sustainably in a recession, and provide clarification on terminology and metrics.
Speakers include Martin Charter, Director of The Centre for Sustainable Design and Chris Sherwin, Head of Innovation at Forum for the Future.
The pre-conference workshop, Design for remanufacture, aims to enhance understanding of the remanufacturing process, and encourage the design of products and components which enable remanufacture.
Delegates will also have the opportunity to take part in discussion sessions and give their opinions on ways of educating and training designers and cross-sector co-operation.
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