CONTENTS
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 1
Innovation And Product Development: The role of universities
and the relevance of recycling design 15
1. Innovation 15
2. Innovation Systems 16
3. Design Innovation 18
4. Cooperation between Science and Industry 21
5. Case Studies related to Architecture and Interior Design 21
6. The Role of Recycling Design for Innovation. . 25
Chapter 2
Recycling design: exploration based design for the re-use of
material 29
1. Importance of Recycling Design 29
2. Working Methodology and Process 30
3. Results and Products 33
Chapters
Research project Wohn-Visionen 2020: Protection of
Resources 39
1. Background 39
2. Saving of Resources and Energy 39
3. The Idea. 40
4. Production 40
5. Physical and Virtual Transport 41
6. Communication 41
7. Measurability. 42
8. The Material 42
9. Conclusions 43
10. How can design protect the environment? 43
11. Schedule of Wohn-Visionen 2020 44
12. The project's results. 46
13. Perspective . 51
Chapter 4
Design in Time of Sustainability: O Design em Tempos de
Sustentabilidade 53
1. Initial considerations 53
2. An Espinozist ethic in the perspective of late modernity 54
3. The designer in this context of globalization 58
4. Strategic design and the challenge of sustainable perspective. 64
Chapters
For the future: Recycling, Reuse, Green Economics
Design in the Service of Sustainability 71
1. Man transforms . 71
2. Man and resources 71
3. Sustainability 73
4. History of recycling and reuse 74
5. Classical recycling 75
6. Reuse: two ways 77
7. Green Economics . 79
8. New product concepts 81
9. Mans needs 85
10. Design strategies for the future 86
Chapter 6 Design reusing materials: A real possibility 91
1. Introduction 91
2. Eletronic waste 91
3. Reuse X Recycle 92
4. Image of recycled things 93
5. Recycling experiment: cable net 94
Bibliographic notes 99
About the authors 101