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Design for a Sustainable Circular Economy

Research and Practice Consequences

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Editors:
  1. Gavin Brett Melles

    1. Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Australia

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  2. Christian Wölfel

    1. Industrial Design Engineering, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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  • Presents a unique perspective on the role of expert and diffuse design for a circular society transition
  • Shows how the mainstream circular economy narrative is not sufficient for sustainability
  • Provides diverse theoretical perspectives and examples on how to achieve a sustainable circular economy

Part of the book series: Design Science and Innovation (DSI)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Designing the Sustainable Circular Economy: From Products to Politics

    • Gavin Brett Melles, Christian Wölfel
    Pages 2-20

  3. Beyond Eco-Design Towards Designing Sustainable Circular Production-Consumption Systems

    • Ursula Tischner
    Pages 21-41

  4. Connecting Global Sustainability with Circular Product Design

    • Harald Desing
    Pages 43-56

  5. Mapping Circular Economy and the Role of Design in Portugal

    • Nicola Morelli, Nina Costa, Luca Simeone
    Pages 57-78

  6. Circular Packaging in the Cosmetics Industry—A Systematic Review on Challenges and the Current State of Sustainable Strategies and Solutions

    • Christoph Scope, Nikolas Neumann, Christian Wölfel, Linda Kästner
    Pages 79-102

  7. Can a Circular Economy Lead to Resource Conservation? A Case Study of Long-Term Resource Efficiency Measures in the Small Manufacturing Company

    • Anastassija Konash
    Pages 103-115

  8. Circular Design for a Transition to a Sustainable Circular Society: Defining a New Profession

    • Gavin Brett Melles, Anne Velenturf
    Pages 117-135

  9. Practice Perspective Implications for Sustainable Circular Economy Transitions

    • Olamide Shittu, Christian Nygaard
    Pages 137-152

  10. Addressing Psychological Needs in Designing for a Sustainable Circular Economy

    • Christian Wölfel, Michael Burmester
    Pages 153-177

  11. Blending Design and Behavioural Science in Three Linked Public Policy Experiments Towards a Circular Economy

    • Stefan Kaufman, Jennifer Macklin
    Pages 179-204

  12. Co-designing a Circular Society

    • Nadja Hempel, Ralph Boch, Melanie Jaeger-Erben
    Pages 205-232
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About this book

This multi-authored book aims to illustrate the social, economic, and ecological factors that should determine and be determined by design in the implementation of a sustainable circular economy and society. We take design to refer to a continuum of perspectives and applications from industrial design to policy design, and this broad perspective invites theoretical and methodological contributions from a range of fields. In addition to bringing scholarly diversity to circularity, we expand and challenge the mainstream circular economy narrative of material efficiencies and green growth to include the demands of inclusive growth and ecological boundaries consistent with sustainable development. Readers from within and beyond design, conscious of the limitations of circular green growth will find new inspiration in this book regarding the nature of a sustainable circular economy and society and the broad design agenda that must be implemented to enable a just and informed circular transition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Australia

    Gavin Brett Melles

  • Industrial Design Engineering, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Christian Wölfel

About the editors

Gavin Brett Melles Ph.D. (Education), M.Sc. (Sustainable Development), is a professor (adjunct) of sustainability and social innovation at Swinburne University’s Design School. He was recently (2021–2022) a senior international fellow in sustainability at the Technical Design Department of Technical University Dresden. He is a research affiliate at the Centre for Design Innovations and Manufacturing Futures Research Institute at Swinburne University. His research and teaching interests include education, sustainability, and related issues.


Christian Wölfel Ph.D., is a trained industrial designer, researcher, and lecturer at the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His research relates to the design and experience of complex systems in professional domains. It is grounded in cognitive and social sciences and aims for sustainable solutions. He teaches design fundamentals, design theory, and design research in interdisciplinary settings. He is a board member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) and works occasionally as a consultant for B2B companies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Design for a Sustainable Circular Economy

  • Book Subtitle: Research and Practice Consequences

  • Editors: Gavin Brett Melles, Christian Wölfel

  • Series Title: Design Science and Innovation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7532-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7531-0Published: 03 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7534-1Due: 30 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-7532-7Published: 29 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2509-5986

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-5994

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Industrial and Production Engineering, Sustainable Development, Waste Management/Waste Technology

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