‘State of the Art’ Sustainable Innovation & Design
Part of the ‘Towards Sustainable Product Design’ series of conferences
20th International Conference
9th-10th November 2015
University for the Creative Arts
Epsom
Surrey
KT18 5BE
UK
Please don’t miss our paper presentation on Day #2 at 10:45 in the Refereed Papers session – I’m the only Italian speaker 😉
Beyond Sustainability. How to Regenerate the Built Environment Using the Living Building Challenge Principles (abstract)
Carlo Battisti, Paola Moschini – Macro Design Studio
Sustainable Innovation 2015 will provide a platform to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to the “state of the art” in sustainable innovation and design related to products, services, technologies and new business models. Sustainable Innovation 2015 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, technology providers, designers and innovation and sustainability directors as well as other business functions. The event will create a unique space for learning, networking and thinking. Delegates will come globally from large companies and SMEs, as well as academia, government and non-governmental organisations. The conference is supported by an international Advisory Board.
Conference Topics
Sustainable Innovation 2015 welcomes conceptual and research-based papers focused on the “state of the art” of sustainable innovation and design. Papers should cover sustainability, innovation, product, service or technology design, and development and commercialisation issues related to the following topics:
- Radical change
- Crowdsourcing
- Disruptive innovation
- Design management & strategies
- Market transformation
- User centred design
- Consumption & production
- Product-service-systems (PSS)
- Green growth & economy
- New technologies & materials
- Circular economy
- Biomimicry
- Low carbon innovation
- Cradle to Cradle
- Product policy
- Innovation processes
- (New) business models
- Organisational dimensions
- Product sustainability
- Product development
- Re-use & remanufacturing
- Supply networks
- Makers, modifiers & fixers
- Marketing & communications
- Open innovation
- Tools & methodologies