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Designing Innovation - The Role of Engineering Design to Realise Sustainability Challenges

  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • The Open University

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Abstract

Sustainability challenges drive innovation, yet few studies attend to the role of design to realise innovation. This paper report from a full day workshop and panel discussion with 100 delegates at the ICED 2021 conference. Industrialists, academics and societal representatives discussed how to deal with five conflicting themes. It is argued that innovation actors will need to take a joint action to the problem, industrial value chains need to co-innovate and that long term challenging targets are powerful metrics to drive transformation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1021-1030
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of the Design Society
Volume2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2022 - Virtual, Online, Croatia
Duration: 23 May 202226 May 2022

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • design education
  • design methods
  • sustainable design
  • sustainable innovation

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