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Ecodesign in industrial design consultancies: comparing Australia, Germany, China and the USA

dc.contributor.author Ramirez, Mariano en_US
dc.contributor.author Behrisch, Johannes en_US
dc.contributor.author Giurco, Damien en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:25:16Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:25:16Z
dc.date.issued 2011 en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper presents the results of an empirical study, investigating the uptake of ecodesign by industrial design consultancies (ID consultancies) in Australia, China, Germany and the USA. Designing products for a low environmental load, usually termed as ecodesign, offers high potential to reduce the environmental impact of our society, aiming for a sustainable development. However, there still appears to be no widespread uptake of ecodesign into product development praxis by industrial designers, with most ecodesign activity focusing on the engineering phase. Especially seldom are the necessary radical interventions to significantly improve the environmental performance of products. The literature review revealed that ID consultancies might be in a position to improve this situation. This paper presents the findings of a website content analysis, investigating the extent of ecodesign uptake by ID consultancies in Australia, China, Germany and the US. Those four countries were chosen to see if different, country specific frameworks impact on the attitude of ID consultancies towards ecodesign. The paper verifies that ID consultancies have a high potential to improve ecodesign uptake by using their influence especially on early phases of the product development process and by addressing also non engineering related issues for ecodesign. This potential does not appear to be fully embraced yet. The paper concludes by identifying the highest representation of ecodesign on websites of Australian ID consultancies and the lowest on websites of Chinese ID consultancies. The way ID consultancies practice ecodesign is very country specific. Understanding the differences and developing recommendations how ID consultancies can better unfold their ecodesign potential requires deeper investigations in the case specific factors. en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.iced11.org en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 9781904670254 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/51854
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher The Design Society en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other design consultancies en_US
dc.subject.other industrial design en_US
dc.subject.other ecodesign en_US
dc.title Ecodesign in industrial design consultancies: comparing Australia, Germany, China and the USA en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.description.notePublic Conference website: www.iced11.org en_US
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26
unsw.publisher.place Glasgow en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceLocation Copenhagen en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceName International Conference on Engineering Design en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceProceedingsTitle Impacting Society through Engineering Design: Vol 5 Design for X, Design to X en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceYear 2011 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 408-418 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Ramirez, Mariano, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Behrisch, Johannes en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Giurco, Damien en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Built Environment *
unsw.subject.fieldofresearchcode 120305 Industrial Design en_US
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