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Title: Evolution of Design for Sustainability: From Product Design to Design for System Innovations and Transitions
Authors: Ceschin, F
Gaziulusoy, IA
Keywords: design for sustainability;innovation;product design;design research;literature review
Issue Date: 19-Sep-2016
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Ceschin, F. and Gaziulusoy, I.A. (2016) 'Evolution of Design for Sustainability: From Product Design to Design for System Innovations and Transitions', Design Studies, 47, pp. 118-163. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2016.09.002.
Abstract: © 2016 The Authors. The paper explores the evolution of Design for Sustainability (DfS). Following a quasi-chronological pattern, our exploration provides an overview of the DfS field, categorising the design approaches developed in the past two decades under four innovation levels: Product, Product-Service System, Spatio-Social and Socio-Technical System. As a result, we propose an evolutionary framework and map the reviewed DfS approaches onto this framework. The proposed framework synthesizes the evolution of DfS field, showing how it has progressively expanded from a technical and product-centric focus towards large scale system level changes in which sustainability is understood as a socio-technical challenge. The framework also shows how the various DfS approaches contribute to particular sustainability aspects and visualise linkages, overlaps and complementarities between these approaches.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2016.09.002
ISSN: 0142-694X
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