DfC Workshop 2.0 - Day 1

Participants learn the basics of the Circular Economy and the concepts of Circular Design in the lecture in the morning. 

The hands-on learning planned in the afternoon encourages the participants to connect the material in their hands, their ideas and what they have learnt in the lecture to understand Circular Design better.

1. Introductions (10:00-11:00)

We started the day with personal introductions.

Participants of Workshop 2.0 were 3 Master's students (Design) and 1 Bachelor's student (Design) from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Although all are currently majoring in Design, their educational backgrounds and knowledge in the Circular Economy and Design varied.

We decided to take a generous amount of time to know and understand each other's backgrounds, interests, skill sets, and current knowledge on the Circular Economy and Circular Design to restructure and plan the workshop to better fit with the participants’ skills, level of knowledge, and needs.

The participants' backgrounds ranged from Middle Eastern History to Product Design, Architecture and Critical Making.

2. Lecture (11:00-12:00)

Content

1. Linear VS Circular Design

2. Circular economy system (butterfly diagram)

3. Circular Business: Product→Service Design

4. Circular design strategies

5. Examples of Circular Business and Design 

The lecture was given using Google slides in the kitchen area.

The slides were bilingual (JP&EN) and shared a day prior for participants to become accustom to the vocabulary of circular design.

As information on Circular Economy and Circular Design is still vastly in English, we chose to hold the lecture mainly in English. To ensure a better understanding of the content, we used Japanese for recaps of the concepts introduced in English through examples of actual business and projects applying Circular Design strategies.

4. Concept Building (13:30-14:30)