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  • 标题:Creating a Circular Design Workspace: Lessons Learned from Setting up a “Bio-Makerspace”
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  • 作者:Bert Vuylsteke ; Louise Dumon ; Jan Detand
  • 期刊名称:Sustainability
  • 印刷版ISSN:2071-1050
  • 出版年度:2022
  • 卷号:14
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:2229
  • DOI:10.3390/su14042229
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:MDPI, Open Access Journal
  • 摘要: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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