2. Hey
My desire to drive change,
combined with holding strong
environmental and social
values formed my
passion about designing for
sustainability.
I believe people can build
good futures by mastering a
creative, empathic and rational
mindset.
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p.2 - Introduction
3. APPROACH
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Design Process
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p.3 - Approach
My analytical mindset is able to
by-step approach. I work best on
individual tasks in this phase.
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My creative mindset is able to
spot unusual patterns. I can either
be an unorthodox team-player or a
guiding and clarifying team coach.
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My empathic mindset is able to
recognise and formalise feelings
of others. I work in the context and
with the people I am designing for.
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4. p.4 - Scope
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Tangible Change
Organisational Change
Societal Change
Materialenscan
Individual work Team Work Collaborative Work
Flap&Go Lunchbox
Aim: make mobile cooking easier
Role: design & engineering
Organisation: University of
Antwerp & Phillippe De Naeyer
Easy Clip
Aim: innovate in paper handling
Role: management & design
Organisation: University of
Antwerp
Client: Bekaert
Cradle to Cradle (C2C)
Aim: envision carpets of the future
Role: design and research
Organisation: EPEA
nutec
Aim: display the C2C philosophy
Role: collect & organise samples
Organisation: EPEA
Client: nutec international fair
Stad Gent
Aim: advice on municipal waste
prevention measures
Role: desk research
Organisation: BECO Belgium
Client: Ghent city-council
OVAM
Aim: Supply of environmentally
friendly products in retail
Role: primary research
Organisation: BECO Belgium
Client: OVAM (Public Waste
Agency of Flanders)
project
Aim: advice on greening the
food-chain in self catering
accommodation
Role: primary & secondary
research, graphic communication
Client:
Project
Aim: Enhancing the role of higher
education as change agent for
sustainable development
Role: management & research
Client:
E:DN
Aim: network to exchange
knowledge for designing more
sustainable products
Role: workshop facilitation &
website administrator
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
Client: Welsh Government
ecca
Aim: assessing the perception
among product designers of the
use of pre-painted metals
Role: Conducting interviews
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
Client: European Coil Coating
Association
Constructing Excellence Wales
Aim: providing data and evidence
on the environmental performance
of materials and products used in
the construction, demolition and
building sector
Role: secondary research
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
Client: Constructing Excellence
Wales
Aim: discuss the importance
of building a shared view on
sustainable development within
innovation and design education.
Role: secondary research and
speaker
Organisation: independent work
Client: Research Councils UK &
Harbin Engineering University
SVID
Aim: generate recommendations
to undertake best practice in
ecodesign research and education
in Sweden.
Role: desk research, international
research
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
& Prof. Tim McAloone, Technical
University of Denmark
Client: Swedish Industrial Design
Forum
E&PDE
Aim: discussion on strategic
development in design education
Role: lead author and speaker
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
Client: Engineering and Product
Design Education Conference
Aim:
vision and setting up a
transnational knowledge and
technology transfer network
Role: Work package leader, Welsh
point of contact & research on
responsible innovation.
Organisation: Ecodesign Centre
and 7 other partners
Client: INTERREG IVB (ERDF)
Izmo Summer School:
Aim: intervene effectively on an
under utilised semi-public space
in Turin
Role: summer school participant
acting as team coach
Organisation: Izmo
Client: Cecchi-Point
Materialscan:
Aim: Support sustainable material
Role:
Organisation: Cradle to Cradle
Platform (Freelance)
Client: OVAM & Agentschap
Ondernemen
SCOPE
5. Flap&Go Foldable lunchbox
Step 1: remove lid Step 2: unlock corners Step 3: collapse Step 4: replace lid
reducinG size
transport
Step 1: remove lid Step 2: push edges Step 3: lock corners Step 4: replace lid
store
prepare
The foldable lunchbox keeps lunches safely
backpack or briefcase.
The foldable lunchbox was designed in 2005,
multiple producers in 2008.
p.5 - Work Outcomes
6. Easy Clip is het afstudeerproject in de vakgroep gebruiksgoe-
deren van Merel Claes, gerealiseerd in het academiejaar
2006-2007. Joos Bostoen en Marcelo Xavier van Bekaert
traden op als promotoren. Easy Clip brengt een totaaloplos-
sing voor uw documentenbeheer. We gebruiken als maar
meer kleine, tijdelijke bundels. De Clip houdt deze bundels
stevig vast. Ook uw papieren herschikken kost geen moeite.
En dankzij de perforatie kunt u alles meteen in een handige,
nieuwe ringmap opbergen.
Gewone binder
Zijn uw oude ringmappen nog niet aan
vervanging toe, dan is dat met twee
regular Easy Clips zo opgelost. Deze clip
is iets korter dan de extended. Met de
bijkomende sticker kunt u makkelijk de
correcte afstand voor uw clips bepalen,
waarna u uw bundels even makkelijk op
kunt bergen.
Easy Clip Binder
Met slechts één clip kunt u iedere bundel
in de compacte Easy Clip Binder opber-
gen. Deze handige map kunt u dankzij
zijn klein formaat makkelijk mee nemen
naar school of uw werk. Hij past zelfs in
een laptoptas.
Easy Clip
Easy Clip is een dynamische clip in roest-
vast staal. De extended Easy Clip is dank-
zij zijn lengte ideaal om op de hoek van
een bundel vastgeklikt te worden. De clip
kan ook gebruikt worden als label.
Verpakking
De Easy Clip is herbruikbaar. Daarom
wordt hij aangeboden in een makkelijk te
gebruiken verpakking. Hierin kunt u al uw
clips na gebruik terug steken. Dankzij dit
handige opbergsysteem zullen uw Easy
Clips nooit zoek raken.
Packaging
The Easy Clip is reusable,
over and over again. There-
fore it comes with this handy
package. After use, you can
replace the Easy Clip into the
package.
Normal binder
need to be replaced yet, you
can use the shorter Easy
Clip. Thanks to the additional
sticker, you can position two
from each other.
Easy Clip binder
With only one clip, you can
store all your bundles in the
compact Easy Clip Binder.
This handy binder can be
taken to school or work and
Easy Clip
Easy clip is a dynamic clip in
stainless steel. It can easily
bundle. The clip can also be
used as tag.
your document management.
We do use more and small and temporary
bundles of paper. The clip holds the bundles
tightly together. Re-organising your paperwork
is very easy. The perforation makes it easy to
store your bundles in the new and smaller ring
binder.
p.6 - Work Outcomes
7. Student well-being as driver for
sustainable development policies.
Enhancing the role of higher education as change
agent for sustainable development.
Merel Claes
Aim
Objective:
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Conclusions
Strategy:
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Needs
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Student well-being as driver for
sustainable development policies.
Enhancing the role of higher education as change
agent for sustainable development.
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Aim
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Conclusions
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Student well-being as driver for
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Conclusions
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institutions can include in their policy in
order to expand their role in the sustainable
development debate by becoming long term
change agents.
The project provides a framework for internal
innovation so institutions can become learning
organisations for sustainable development.This
framework balances long term goals with short
term gains by including three levels:
strategic, tactic and operational.
Conclusions
Strategy:
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Strategic
Research question: What is the importance of student
well-being in the long term?
Tactic
Research question: Which views on sustainability have
high potential for success and how can they be build?
Merel Claes
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The following views have a high potential for success:
challenge of sustainable development.
Institutions who embrace sustainability should include the
quaility of life model in its policy.
Well-being is not only a result of feeling physically and
mentally good. Well-being is an inner capability and
Operational
The implementing of informal learning need further
research to identify how this can enhance well-being.
8. E:DN was a network
for designers in Wales
focusing on Ecodesign and
Sustainability. It ran from
October 2009 to March 2011
and was managed by EDC.
Workshops
E:DN ran 10 workshops. Most workshops followed a format that
started with talks by guest speakers, following an interaction
learning by a group wrap up.
Guest speakers included international experts, designers,
companies and sector representatives. The workshops took
place in various venues in Cardiff ranging from the public library
or the local art centre to a pub or even an empty shop.
The following workshops took place:
1. Co-designing an Ecodesign network
2. Ecodesign
3. Making Sense of Sustainability
4. Materials, design and sustainability
5. Social innovation with John Thackara
6. Life Cycle Thinking
7. Insights and Foresights
8. Materials Lab
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10. Design & Social Entrepreneurship
Web Platform
A web platform was launched to enhance the network. The
platform provided information on past and future network
workshops, resources for designers, links to other events,
industry news and case studies.
Registered users were able to continue the discussions on the
platform and upload case studies.
E:DN was also present on social media as: twitter, Lindedin,
Delicious, Youtube and Vimeo
The platform had following statistics:
830 unique visitors/users
82.78% of users from UK/Wales
10% users visiting 26–50 times
Other Activities
Other knowledge exchange activities of E:DN included:
Engagement with policy makers event,
Study visit to international conference,
Publications,
Informal gatherings for designers
p.8 - Work Outcomes
E:DN exchanged knowledge on methodologies, management frameworks
and processes for designing more sustainable products and packaging. The
network also exchanged knowledge on the application and use of potentially
more sustainable materials, technologies, business models and social
innovation.
9. RESPONSIBLE IRRESPONSIBLE
The Karim project aims to establish a network
of universities and Small to Medium Size
Enterprises to facilitate transnational
knowledge and technology transfer that can
enable responsible innovation.
was to develop a common understanding
amongst the project partners to what the
core concepts of the project mean, i.e.
responsible and open innovation.
Innovation
Sustainability
Emerging
Technologies
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RiskManagement
StakeholderDialogue
ImpactAssessment
Organising 4 workshops
The partnership consists of a diverse group of partners with
complementary capabilities and competencies who are all
motivated to address innovation in a responsible manner.
Current understanding of the meaning of responsible innovation
differ for individuals, organisations and regions. The workshops
aim to bring the project partners towards a raised level of
shared understanding and to the same commitment.
Attending international events
In order to set the scope of the international debate on
responsible innovation, I attended the following events:
Responsible Innovation Conference, the Hague, April 2011
Franco-British workshop on Responsible Innovation, May 2011
Responsible Innovation Workshop, TU Delft, December 2011
Hosting a steering committee meeting
Two days bi-annual meeting of the project consortium members
hosted in Cardiff in July 2011.
Liaising with Welsh stakeholders
Scoping possibilities of testing and implementing educational
and innovation support services within the activities of Cardiff
Metropolitan University and the Welsh Government.
Workshop 3
Lancaster, November 2011
Main question:
Who in our organisations can
work on responsible innovation?
Format:
Focus group with the business
development managers mapping
out knowledge areas and
services, identifying hot-spots and
discussing potential strategies.
Workshop 1
Lancaster, April 2011
Main question:
What does responsible innovation
mean to you?
Format:
20 participants were asked to
bring and explain in one minute
what they see as a responsible
innovation and irresponsible
innovation. Illustrations were used
for a mapping exercise.
Workshop 2
Cardiff, July 2011
Main question:
What does responsible innovation
mean to organisations?
Format:
workshop and the two
international events, followed by
three group discussions where the
participants explained a case their
organisation worked on.
Workshop 4
Dublin, January 2012
Main question:
How can we make responsible
innovation happen?
Format:
workshops and research activities,
discussing strategies.
p.9 - Work Outcomes
10. Samples - p.10p.10 - Work Outcomes 3 4
Izmo summer school participants made the
space for the community.
Cecchi-Point is a multicultural hub at a disused
factory site in Turin. Izmo researches the
territory where interactions take place between
individuals and public space.
Methodology
A participatory planning
event was organises
for children and elderly.
The main stakeholders
of Cecchi-Point were
consulted. Materials for the
installation were donated
by the community.
Results
A central installation with
plants and panels create
space and extra shade.
Discarded kitchen shelves
were transformed into
mobile sitting objects. An
old silo was transformed
into a landmark
11. p.11 - Work Outcomes
Materialenscan
advice on sustainable material management.
can improve and provides guidance on
taking actions.
Results:
furniture to building materials were scanned in 2014.
effectively, how much gets wasted and how much is lost
via emissions.
The qualitative part of the scan focuses on the strategies
the SME has undertaken in production, product
development and waste mangement.