Kuala Lumpur, 2023

Track chair: Simon Lockrey, Associate Professor, RMIT, Australia.

Design for Sustainability - grew to 22 papers presented over 5 sessions at ISDRS Malaysia 2023. So that's great news! Topics were wide and varied, covering design of products, textiles, infrastructure, packaging, services, strategy, architecture, participatory outcomes, and focusing on topics such as consumer perceptions, play, food waste, climate change, bio renewal, regional development, and responsibility. All in all, the role of design was paramount and palpable in sustainability causes across these terrific papers, presented from scholars from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, South America, China, and beyond.

ISDRS 2021

Track chair: Klara Tóthné Szita  

Sustainable design of a trigger sprayer suitable to e-commerce market. A case study of design for material reduction, disassembling and recycling 

Lucia Pietroni, Jacopo Mascitti, Daniele Galloppo 

The presentation was showed by Jacopo and Daniel. They prepared also a full paper. 

They investigated the environmental impact of the material reduction, disassembling and recycling with applying LCA method.  it was a typical case study of product design following the environmental and economic aspect. 

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Design strategies in times of pandemic – a case study of how Covid-19 is visualized in the Nordic countries Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Island 

Karina Goransson, Anna- Sara Fagerholm 

The problem was very interesting approach of social innovation. Both of authors spoken. The presentation based on the content and infographic analysis were used during the pandemic. They applied comparative analysis of posters, between Nordic countries’ communication materials. The authors have not showed that taking epidemic related infographics seriously reduced covid 19 infections, although it could have strength the paper.  

After the presentation there was interesting discussion about papers and general questions of responsible sustainable production and consumption (SDG’12), why important the ecodesign aspect in the product development. We have spoken about the desing orienting scenarios of the SusHouse project,– it was elaborated twenty years age, and had prepared sustainable strategies towards sustainable household 2050. It is actual today, - how possible decrease the environmental load on based of factor 20, and the 3 pillars of sustainability, while there also measured the consumer attitude, and used future study tools backcasting and future workshop and design orienting scenario methods..  

Messina, Italy, 2018

Chairs: Astrid Skjerven, Marzia Traverso

The topic met great interest from the conference participants, which was testified by the necessity to create 3 different track sessions to give room to all speakers. There were 13 presentations in total. The contributions covered different sector such as automotive, fashion and building. Even if the focus was sustainability the most of presentations were about environmental pillar of sustainability, only a couple of them include the life cycle costing (and consequently the economic pillar). The contributions were different qualitatively from a more superficial qualitative approach to a quantitative and scientific one. Several reflected the gap between the attitudes of stakeholders and the implementation of eco-friendly solutions. Most used quantitative methods and statistics. Some tended to compare incongruent parameters. Provided further development some of them might become useful tools in building and rebuilding processes. By the way, the importance of this session is very high as well as the necessity to expand to all three pillars of sustainability.