1-Day Intensive Design Workshop: Designing for the Circular Economy

The 'Designing for the Circular Economy' Workshop will be held on Saturday, 1 April 2017, between 09:30 and 17:30 at the BAU North Campus Model Workshop. Students who wish to participate in the workshop can contact Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bengü Uluengin.

In this 1-day intensive design workshop, students will explore the principles of the circular economy, often also referred to as 'cradle to cradle (C2C) design.' C2C is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems. Rather than adopting a linear, make-use-dispose approach to product and building design, it offers an economic, industrial and social framework that creates systems that are not only efficient but also waste-free. By reusing 'waste' products and reintroducing them into the production cycle, the concept of waste is abandoned. When a C2C product reaches the end of its useful life, its parts return to the factory (to be reassembled into new products and reused) or return to nature and become nutrients for organisms.

Every year, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute organizes a design competition for the development of effective and efficient products, designs and architectural materials that reflect the principles of the circular economy. Workshop participants will be encouraged to enter this competition and will be guided accordingly by the workshop leader.