With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today's environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints.
Danish design has long been revered for its high-quality aesthetics, materials and craftmanship, encouraging sustainability without compromise. This book explores the lessons to be learnt from Scandinavian design ideals, introduces the philosophy and principles of circular economy and showcases the potential power of combining circular economy and design in helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. It presents a range of case study examples across multiple sectors and includes interviews with Danish designers from architecture, furniture, fashion, digital and industrial design, providing unique insights by some of the world's leading contemporary designers.
Bridging theory and real-world insights and experiences, this book builds on the framework of the 4Rs - The Circular Way: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replace to encourage innovation through the replacement of environmentally damaging materials and business models. A must-read for product designers, industrial designers, consultants, business developers, sustainability professionals and students interested in learning how to design and implement circular, sustainable models into practice.
Danish design has long been revered for its high-quality aesthetics, materials and craftmanship, encouraging sustainability without compromise. This book explores the lessons to be learnt from Scandinavian design ideals, introduces the philosophy and principles of circular economy and showcases the potential power of combining circular economy and design in helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. It presents a range of case study examples across multiple sectors and includes interviews with Danish designers from architecture, furniture, fashion, digital and industrial design, providing unique insights by some of the world's leading contemporary designers.
Bridging theory and real-world insights and experiences, this book builds on the framework of the 4Rs - The Circular Way: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replace to encourage innovation through the replacement of environmentally damaging materials and business models. A must-read for product designers, industrial designers, consultants, business developers, sustainability professionals and students interested in learning how to design and implement circular, sustainable models into practice.
"Ditte Lysgaard Vind writes eloquently about the role of Danish design in Denmark's journey toward a regenerative future, and how global suitability pressures have helped shaped positive action in places like Copenhagen. It's a great read and resource for anyone who wants to understand how design can help us live better on this planet."
Michael H. Ramage, Professor of Architecture and Engineering, and Director at Centre for Natural Material Innovation, University of Cambridge, UK
"Simply put, as manifested in this book by intelligent design, we can harness the extraordinary powers of business as a source of good, and make sure we are incentivised to keep on the trajectory of creating a regenerative society for all to thrive in, and to ultimately ensure a liveable and sustainable future for businesses, as well as the planet and humankind. I say let's choose light over darkness, wisdom over foolishness, and leave the winter of despair behind to enter the spring of hope. This book is a good place to start."
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman of Siemens, boardmember of World Economic Forum and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
"This thought-provoking book showcases how design can build a regenerative society, with practical examples from Danish design, questions on systems thinking, and applications of circular economy principles. The author skilfully demonstrates the transformative power of design for a better future."
Catherine De Wolf, Professor, Circular Engineering for Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"This is a book of planetary urgency; a playbook for industries, universities, countries, and is is the epitome of a nation's reputation and legacies."
Richard Hsu, Professor of Practice at Tongji University School of Design and Innovation, China
Michael H. Ramage, Professor of Architecture and Engineering, and Director at Centre for Natural Material Innovation, University of Cambridge, UK
"Simply put, as manifested in this book by intelligent design, we can harness the extraordinary powers of business as a source of good, and make sure we are incentivised to keep on the trajectory of creating a regenerative society for all to thrive in, and to ultimately ensure a liveable and sustainable future for businesses, as well as the planet and humankind. I say let's choose light over darkness, wisdom over foolishness, and leave the winter of despair behind to enter the spring of hope. This book is a good place to start."
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman of Siemens, boardmember of World Economic Forum and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
"This thought-provoking book showcases how design can build a regenerative society, with practical examples from Danish design, questions on systems thinking, and applications of circular economy principles. The author skilfully demonstrates the transformative power of design for a better future."
Catherine De Wolf, Professor, Circular Engineering for Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"This is a book of planetary urgency; a playbook for industries, universities, countries, and is is the epitome of a nation's reputation and legacies."
Richard Hsu, Professor of Practice at Tongji University School of Design and Innovation, China