EVENT
Circular Design Deep Dive
The Conference
From 22.-24.06.2022 we dived into the topic of Circular Design with lectures, workshops and networking. The event was a cooperation of Fab City Hamburg and the Design Zentrum Hamburg. We invited international and local experts (here all experts and talks) to present best practices and visionary projects that demonstrate how the economy can be designed in a circular way. These examples were then discussed in workshops to develop applicable Principles for Circular Design.
If you want to learn more about Circular Design itself, read our blog post ”Circular Design“.
About
The event aims to highlight circular design through success stories of already existing SMEs, scientific research consultant agencies. Other focuses are on the education of sustainable design and the technologies that support or enable circular design. Furthermore, product requirements will be discussed together with political directives and regulatory mechanisms. Special emphasis will be placed on the design of locally produced products, open source strategies of collaborative production, and digital fabrication processes. The aim is to stimulate a broad interest in the topic and to demonstrate the extent to which the technologies developed by INTERFACER can support Circular Design. The event series aims to create a forum where the various local and international stakeholders can meet, exchange ideas and jointly develop strategies and solutions in workshops. But it is also intended to raise awareness in industry, politics and society for this central topic of the circular economy.
Results
The expected outcome of the event and the workshops is the formulation of principles and recommendations on how Circular Design can be implemented in practice.
Read the newly formulated principles made in Hamburg during the CDDD conference here:
Throwback to our Expert Panel and Topics
Wednesday 22.06.22 - Public Event “What is Circular Design?” (needs registration)
The opening session gives an introduction to circular design from different perspectives and through success stories.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 16:15 | Registration |
| 17:00 | Greetings - Jens Kerstan, Hamburg Senator for the Environment |
| 17:15 | Greetings Design Zentrum Hamburg - Frances Uckermann |
| 17:30 | Opening Words CDDD - Wolf Kühr |
| 17:45 | Introduction CDDD: Method & Moderation - Michael Ziehl |
| 17:55 | Break |
| 18:00 | Digital Product Passport & Ecodesign for sustainable Products directive EU Commission DG Connect- Brussels, Almut Nagel, Policy Officer |
| 18:30 | Circular design - the challenge is in the details Econcept - Cologne, Ursula Tischner, CEO |
| 19:00 | Digitally fabricated circular designed furniture Stykka - Copenhagen, Rasmus Taun, CEO |
| 19:30 | Q&R |
| 20:00 | Network Event |
Thursday 23.06.22 - Morning: Moderated Workshop (needs registration)
This morning session is focusing on education. What are the new skills and competencies a designer needs to make and think circular design? After a short input session, we will elaborate key principles of this topic.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:45 | Coffee & Snacks |
| 10:15 | Wrap up last day |
| 10:30 | Input Session: Education & Circular Design |
| 10:45 | Education for sustainable fashion design: Elena Ianeselli Lottozero - Prato |
| 11:00 | Circular product design: Eric Pfromm Academy for fashion and design - Hamburg |
| 11:30 | Workshop : Education & CD |
23.06.22 - Afternoon: Moderated Workshop (needs registration)
This session explore the potentials of distributed design and how it enables local production and global collaboration. After a short input session, we will elaborate key principles of this topic.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 14:00 | Input Session: Distributed & Circular design |
| 14:15 | Distributed Design : Marion Real Fab Lab Barcelona |
| 14:30 | Fab City Operating System: Raphael Haus - Interfacer Team Hamburg |
| 15:00 | Workshop: Distributed Design & CD |
23.06.22 - Evening: “Open source by nature” (needs registration)
Key speakers will introduce to the topic of bio-based regenerative materials and how they can overcome the linear economy.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 18:00 | From human- to species- centred design Studio Aikieu - Malmö, Jenny Lee, Founder |
| 18:30 | Naturally grown packaging & interior design products Grown.bio - Amsterdam, Arthur Moree, CEO |
Friday 24.06.22 - Morning: Moderated Workshop (needs registration)
This session questions on how a product needs to be designed in order to go back into material flows in the end of its lifetime. After a short input session, we will elaborate key principles of this topic.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:45 | Coffee & Snacks |
| 10:15 | Wrap up last day |
| 10:30 | Input Session: Product Requirement & Circular Design |
| 10:45 | The refrigerator case study: Wuppertal Institut, Christoph Tochtrop |
| 11:00 | Circular fashion by design House of All - Hamburg, Sarah Buerger |
| 11:30 | Workshop : Product Requirement & CD |
24.06.22 - Afternoon: Moderated Workshop (needs registration)
In this session we will conclude the differnts principles from the other session to a short and well comprehensive list of recommandation and principles of circular design.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 14:00 | Workshop: Elaboration of the Circular Design Principles and recommendations |
24.06.22 - Evening: Public event “The right narrative to get people on board” (needs registration)
This session is focusing on storytelling and narratives that is needed to fullfill the change towards a responsible and sustainable design.
| Time | Speaker / Topic |
|---|---|
| 18:00 | Exploded view beyond building a biobased, circular house Biobased Creations, Amsterdam, Lucas de Man, CEO |
| 18:30 | Science-based comic: The impossibilities of the Circular Economy SAXION University, Netherlands, Christoph Hinske, Associate Professor |
| 19.00 | Public presentation of the Circular Design Principles and recommendations co-created by the participant of the workshop |
| 19:30 | Q & R + discussion |
| 20:00 | Come together & Networking |
Team
Concept & Curation Wolf Kühr
Concept & Design Annika Fitz
Event Management Anna Moritz
Communication Isabel Neuendorf, Dr. Jacqueline Bertlich
Head of Design Zentrum Hamburg Frances Uckermann
Moderation Dr. Michael Ziehl
Graphic Design Oliver Schwartz
A cooperation of INTERFACER (Fab City Hamburg e.V. and Hamburger Institut für Wertschöpfungssystematik und Wissensmanagement UG) and the Design Zentrum Hamburg, with the support of the Fab City Foundation. Funded by the European Union in the framework of the INTERFACER project.