The document discusses the evolution of sustainability within design. It describes four approaches: 1) Using low environmental impact materials and renewable energies. 2) Considering the entire product life cycle from design to disposal. 3) Designing eco-efficient product-service systems through innovative partnerships. 4) Addressing social inequities directly in the design process. The document advocates widening design practices and education to incorporate more systemic and socially equitable approaches.

1. carlo vezzoli politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . faculty of design . Italy Learning Network on Sustainability course System Design for Sustainability subject 1. Sustainable development and design: the reference framework learning resource 1.3 Evolution of sustainability within design

2. CONTENTS Low impact environmental impact materials/energies Product life cycle design/ecodesign LCD: environmental criteria/guidelines Eco-efficient (product-service) system design Design for social equity and cohesion Design for Sustainability: state of the art

6. LIFE CYCLE APPROACH use service manufac . assemb . finish collection resource’s achieving mater. energy produc. package trasp. storage USE PRODUCTION DISPOSING PREPRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION landfill incineration composting recycling reuse comp. reuse remanufactoring biosphere geosphere other product’s life cycle

10. 3. SYSTEM DESIGN FOR ECO-EFFICENCY

11. A DEFINITION OF (PRDUCT-SERVICE) SYSTEM INNOVATION “ the result of an innovation strategy, shifting the business focus from designing and selling physical products only, to designing selling a system of products and services which are jointly capable of fulfilling specific client demands (satisfactions).” “ system innovation can lead, throughout innovative stakeholders’ interactions , to system eco-efficiency.” free pdf at: http://www.unep.fr/scp/publications/details.asp?id=WEB/0081/PA

17. few are the methods/tools for system design and its orientation towards eco-efficient solutions METHODS AND TOOLS FOR SDEE [e.g. EU RESEARCHES: MEPSS, HiCS, SUSHOUSE]

18. … SOME SDEE TOOLS… www.mepss-sdo.polimi.it Sustainability system Design-Orienting (SDO) toolkit Stakeholder System Map Interaction story board

19. where various forms of social inequality are directly addressed in the design process [and not indirectly as a potential result of a radical resources reduction, in industrialized contexts] 4. DESIGN FOR SOCIAL EQUITY

20. “ a system innovation ( approach) may act as a business opportunity to facilitate the process of a social-economical development in an emerging context - by jumping over the stage characterised by individual consumption/ownership of mass produced goods - towards a “satisfaction-based” and “low resource-intensity” advanced service-economy, characterized by the development of local-based and network-structured enterprises and initiatives, for a sustainable re-globalisation process aiming at a democratisation of access to resources, goods and services”. LENS design research working hypothesis [based on UNEP, 2002]: … more in lecture 4, 5

21. low impact mat./energies product LCD design for social equity eco-efficient system design widening of the “subject” to be designed (education and practice) 0% dissemination 100% 0% consolidation 100% (research achievements) … aim at new research frontier …