For the past three years we have been busy using the toolkit together with CEVT, emmamalena, Husqvarna Group, Yovinn, and Valtech to explore opportunities for new circular offers. We have also worked hard to disseminate the tools and reached over 900 professionals through presentations and lectures and trained over 500 students. We have also conducted over […]
Category: Research activities
Partner meet-up
Since our research project Design for circular consumption is soon coming to an end we meet up with our partners last week to exchange insights from the project. Representatives from CEVT, EmmaMalena, Husqvarna Group, Valtech and Yovinn joined us and shared their experiences from working with the Use2Use design tools. We also hade the opportunity […]
Raw Materials and Circular Societies Prize
We are so proud to annouce that the Use2Use Design Toolkit received the EIT Raw Materials and Circular Societies Prize 2021 in the category “New tools / methodologies to support circular design for products and services”! The competition is an initiative by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the jury consisted of […]
Hot off the presses
Since our first batch of printed toolkits is sold out we are working hard to prepare the next batch. So these days we are busy sorting and packing new kits, which will be available very soon. Want to pre-order a kit? Drop us a line!
Discussing circular design tools with EMF
We have had a busy couple of months running workshops and writing papers. One of the most enjoyable events was a session with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation last week. We were invited by the foundation’s design team to introduce Use2Use and run a short workshop. Apart from talking about the Use2Use Design Toolkit and potential […]
What makes users circulate stuff?
Elin Ljungberg and Sandra Sköld, both studying Industrial Design Engineering at Chalmers, is working on their master’s thesis; “What makes users circulate stuff? User incentives and barriers in circular consumption“. The project of 60 credits started during the fall of 2020 and will finish by the summer of 2021. It aims to investigate users’ behaviors […]
Concepts for circular
consumption
During 2020, we have been engaged in the research project Kvarterets konsumtion 2030 to explore how companies, municipalities and other organisations can support circular consumption in smaller towns and city centres. We are happy to invite you to join us on February 24 when we will present insights, scenarios and concepts. We also invite you […]
Charting circular journeys at Valtech
We are very happy to finally be running physical workshops again – although of course adjusted to the current recommendations following Covid-19. Last week, we visited the design agency Valtech, which is one of our partners in the ongoing research project Design for circular consumption. Valtech joined the project to learn more about how to […]
Digital student
workshops
These weeks we have been busy running online workshops with students at Chalmers University of Technology. We are trying out digital versions of the Use2Use Design Toolkit in respons to Covid-19 and current safety recommendations. In this particular workshop, students in the master course “Circular Economy” worked with the Circular Designs Ideation Pack to come […]
Cultivating a circular
mindset
Recently, we were invited by the strategic management agency Goovinn to share our thoughts on the circular economy, present our research and arrange inspiring workshops on how to design for circular consumption. Around 20 people from Goovinn joined us to explore circular challenges related to multiple users and to ideate concepts for how to enable […]
New project: Design for Circular
Consumption
Yay! We have received new funding from Familjen Kamprads stiftelse to dissiminate our newly released design tools and try them out together with companies. During three years, we will explore in what ways the tools can be of value in development processes and assess the extent to which developed offers can contribute to circularity. We […]