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Our resource collection includes workshop activities, publications, case studies, and other materials, much of it developed in collaboration with our academic partners. We intend for the content to grow and evolve in response to your feedback.
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Interactive resources for curriculum development - designed to encourage discussion, clarification, and reflection within the context of a circular economy.
01. A sandwich, a butterfly and a cake - A circular economy?
02. Materials flows, the big picture
03. Exploring systems dynamics - A simulation
04: Three stories about scale and selling
05: Nano Membrane Toilet - Through four lenses of circular design
06: The Circular Economy Is in the Cards
07: Values in a Circular Economy
08: A Doughnut for Later?
09: Circular Business Models - the Branded T-shirt Case
10: Coffee Production and Consumption Systems
Co-created by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO, the guide introduces users to circular economy concepts and circular design thinking techniques. It is centred around 24 methods, as well as interviews with designers, worksheets, illustrative circular innovation case studies, and links for helpful technical tools.
It was developed and piloted with multiple stakeholders, including academics and students from our university network; Stanford University, University of Sao Paulo, Cranfield University and the Royal College of Art.
Many of our academic partners are already integrating the guide into their curriculum. Over the next 12 months we will be sharing their reflections and thinking, in a series of case studies.
If you, or anyone you know is looking for an introduction to the circular economy, this publicly available resource is accessible at circulardesignguide.com.
This collection of videos feature leading academics and students sharing their vision and understanding of circular design, as well as how they used the Circular Design Guide in their work. These videos were created to inspire and enable other academics to incorporate circular design within their curriculum.
Dr Christopher Thorpe
Senior Tutor, Intelligent Mobility, Royal College of Art
Deborah X.Sumter
Circular Product Design, PhD Candidate at Delft University of Technology
Thomas Wastling
Innovation & Creativity in Industry, MDes at Cranfield University and RSA student design award winner
Dr Mariale Moreno
Lecturer in Data-Driven Innovation, Cranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design
Jane Penty
Stage Leader & Sustainability Lead, BA Product Design, Central St Martins - UAL
A series of readers and publications for learners and educators with leading insight into the opportunity of a circular economy.
A series of podcasts with authors of the books' chapters, providing unique insights and reflections of the necessity to develop a whole systems approach to our economy.
Ecosystems as a unifying model for cities and industry
- Michael Pawlyn
Remanufacturing and the circular economy
- Nabil Nasr
Towards a regenerative food system
- Martin Stuchtey
The renewable energy transition - Insight from Germany's energiewende
- Patrick Graichen
Lessons from self-organising traffic lights in city transport systems
- Dirk Helbing
Cities as flows in a circular economy
- Michael Batty
A selection of abridged freely downloadable chapters.
