PLATE: Product Lifetimes And The Environment

Conference Proceedings of PLATE 2017, 8-10 November 2017, Delft, the Netherlands

C.A. Bakker, R. Mugge, Conny A. Bakker

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781614998198
• eBook ISBN: 9781614998204
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Product lifetimes are critical for the circular economy, resource efficiency, waste reduction and low carbon strategies for sustainability, and are therefore of interest to academics from many different disciplines as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other stakeholders. The challenges related to product lifetimes must be tackled from multiple perspectives, making the sharing of knowledge and expertise from different disciplines particularly important. This book presents papers from the second Product Lifetime and the Environment (PLATE) conference, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in November 2017. The conference originated from the desire to bring together academic researchers working in the field of sustainability to benefit from each other's knowledge and further advance the field. The book includes the 88 full papers delivered at the conference, grouped according to the following 7 conference themes: design for product longevity; product lifetime optimization; cultural perspectives on the throwaway society; circular economy and product lifetimes; business opportunities, economic implications and marketing strategies; consumer influences on product lifetimes; and policy, regulation and legislation. The book will be of interest to all those concerned with sustainable consumption, circular economy and resource efficiency.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Consumers' attitudes towards product care: an exploratory study of motivators, ability factors and triggers
• Developing a quantitative research method on planned obsolescence in architecture
• Smart-circular systems: a service business model perspective
• Design for sharing: libraries of things as a product-service system
• Uniquely for you: the individualised avenue for longer product lifetimes
• "Crafting the waste" as a stimulus to collaborative learning and collective production: an example from Turkey
• Sustainable product management by integrating physical and digital lifecycles
• Decontaminating experiences with circular offerings
• Personalisation from a design practice perspective
• Business experiments as an approach to drive sustainable consumption: the case of HOMIE
• Assessing the sharing economy: analyzing ecologies of business models
• Repair vs. replacement: what is the best alternative for household small electric and electronic equipment?
• Understanding material change: design for appropriate product lifetimes
• Satisfaction matters: design that learns from users' sensory and emotional responses to clothing
• Consumer and user acceptance in the circular economy: what are researchers missing?
• Towards more circular office fit-outs: a socio-technical descriptive framework of office fit-out processes
• A double diffusion of innovations: the case of electric automobility product service system
• Is ownership the issue? The role of responsibility in determining public acceptance of product-services systems
• Carative factors to guide design development process for object-owner detachment in enabling an object's longevity
• Pilling in knitwear: a clothing longevity problem beyond design
• New product development and testing strategies for clothing longevity: an overview of a UK research study
• Dimensions of sustainable behaviour in a circular economy context
• The circular pathfinder: development and evaluation of a practice-based tool for selecting circular design strategies
• Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency
• Transforming and prolonging design lifespans: design education cases for sustainability
• Clothing fit and sizing for women can be improved to increase the lifespan and durability by including the bust cup size as a new independent measurement
• Playing for time: seven practice-led workshop tools for making design decisions to extend the life of fashion textile materials and products
• On the meaningfulness of data in product design for lifetime optimization
• Strategies for food longevity
• Consumer perspectives on product lifetimes: a national study of lifetime satisfaction and purchasing factors
• Conditional garment design for longevity
• Design framework for emotionally durable products and services
• The circular economy fashion communication canvas
• Sustainability Cards: design for longevity
• Circular added value: business model design in the circular economy
• Sustainable consumption through product longevity: the influence of enhanced product lifetime information on purchasing electrical appliances among German consumers
• What's hot what's not: the social construction of product obsolescence and its relevance for strategies to increase functionality
• Object Therapy: critical design and methodologies of human research in transformative repair
• Intelligent disassembly of components from printed circuit boards to enable re-use and more efficient recovery of critical metals
• Throwaway culture as a status symbol with fashion in India
• Use phase of wool apparel: a literature review for improving LCA
• Open and closed loops: how to teach and get students to embrace circular design
• Considering the user in the circular economy
• Planned obsolescence: who are those planners?
• Design for the wise consumer
• Operationalizing contextmapping as a means for increment of product durability in kitchen utensils design
• Reducing clothing production volumes by design: a critical review of sustainable fashion strategies
• The look of rough: visual and tactile perceptions of cosmetically aged materials
• Redefining retail experiences: formulating ideas for the future of retail design to promote product longevity
• Slow fashion in retail environments: why storytelling is critical for product longevity
• Implementing "preparation for re-use" in WEEE management: an analysis of the European experience & recommendations for Ireland
• Dynamics of social capital in relation to the development of a sustainable product-service system applied to distributed production
• Product lifetimes through the various legal approaches within the EU context: recent initiatives against planned obsolescence
• Improvement design in Portuguese wool lifecycle: ecological yarn collection
• Taxonomy of design strategies for a circular design tool
• Sustainable fashion tailoring: an approach for creating a heightened emotional attachment to garment apparel at undergraduate level, through pedagogy, story telling, digital technologies and traditional craftsmanship
• The influence of information about prior use on consumers' evaluations of refurbished electronics
• Is there a market for refurbished toothbrushes? An exploratory study on consumers' acceptance of refurbishment for different product categories
• Will durability be a characteristic of future cars?
• How modularity of electronic functions can lead to longer product lifetimes
• Circular business model framework: mapping value creation architectures along the product lifecycle
• Planned obsolescence: the government's choice?
• Measuring the historical change in the actual lifetimes of consumer durables
• Room for change: impact of building-level innovations to facilitate product reuse among residents
• Understanding the societal, entrepreneurship and economic aspects of developing a circular economy in cities: a case study of coventry in the UK
• Exploration of the ways of empowering people in the design process through product personalization for prolonged product lifetimes
• Towards a typology of waste in fashion practice: an Australian perspective
• Product policy and material scarcity challenges: the essential role of government in the past and lessons for today
• Considering optimal lifetimes for LED lamps: a mixed approach and policy implications
• Additive manufacturing for circular product design: a literature review from a design perspective
• Promoting circular innovation through innovation networks: the case of cradle to cradle certified products
• Sustainable business model experimentation practices: evidence from three start-ups
• Management of material cyclicity potential: example of electrical and electronic products
• Consumer complaint deadlines and product durability: the role of law and regulation
• Do ecolabels extend product service times? An analysis of the product group specific criteria of the European Union and Nordic ecolabels
• The role of product designers in the transition towards the circular economy: a reality check
• Challenges and support for scaling up upcycling businesses in the UK: insights from small-business entrepreneurs
• Deconstructing cultural values of products: implications for sustainable design
• Do-Fix workshops: understanding users' product repair experience
• Over the hill? Exploring the other side of the Rogers innovation diffusion model from a consumer and business model perspective
• Classifying circular business models: a practice-based review
• Risk & Race: creation of a finance-focused circular economy serious game
• Ever-faster, ever-shorter? Replacement cycles of durable goods in historical perspective
• Interdisciplinary circular economy design education through local and regional partnerships
• Impact on resource intensity from consumer disposition: Relationship with product lifetime and disposal
• Taking good care: investigating consumer attitudes to product maintenance
• Planned obsolescence in the circular economy
• Preserving objects, preserving memories: repair professionals and object owners on the relation between memories and traces on personal possessions
• WORKSHOP PAPERS