dc Learning

Circular Design Course

Lead by

Katie Furmston

dc Research & Education

  • Highlights the importance of designing-in sustainability.
  • Introduces you to the methods of circular design.
  • Guides you through where to utilise circular design principles throughout the design process.
  • Illustrates the benefits of reuse as a method of creating a 2nd life in products and materials.
  • Guides you through how to conduct carbon calculations, and calculating carbon reductions.

Materials Workshops

Lead by

Olivia Aspinal

dc Materials & Products

  • Understand where materials come from, what they are made of, and how this effects their life cycles.
  • Introduces you to the different options for quantifying material choices.
  • Gain confidence in material specification and justification.
  • Grow your teams knowledge and material literacy.
  • Understand how the application and use of different materials can reduce the carbon footprint of products.

This guide acts as a tool to support designers, architects, manufacturers and suppliers on the process of how to design and manufacture products in a way that considers sustainability from the beginning through use and end of life.

Download our Circular Design Certificate Guide

Our Electrical Guide is designed to support designers & manufacturers in the production of electrified products, the importance of electrical efficiency in sustainable design, and the areas affected by electrical application throughout the design process.

Download our Electrical Design Guide

Our Materials Guide is a design tool aimed at helping designers and manufacturers make informed decisions about the materials they are specifying during the design process.

Download our Materials Guide

 

Our courses and guides offer the opportunity to utilise expertise gathered from some of Europe’s leading furniture designers and manufacturers.

With an increasing emphasis on companies to improve and prove their carbon output, it is becoming more important for there to be education available to support this.

All aspects of design should consider a sustainable element to them.  But translating this to designing sustainably and transparently in industry can be a complicated ballpark.

We use a circular knowledge practice, taking industry knowledge and passing it down to future industry leaders. We look at not just the design process, but how this works in practice, and what happens aftward – using a circular design standard that is industry-focused, industry-led, and industry-assessed.

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