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PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN INTEGRATION BENEFITS AMONG INDUSTRY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS: A CASE STUDY

Part of: Engineering Design Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

T. Chatty  and
J. Faludi
T. Chatty*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, United States of America
J. Faludi
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, United States of America Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
*
*tejaswini.chatty.th@dartmouth.edu

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How do employees perceive the impact of incorporating sustainability considerations into their product development practice? In this case study, we observe how these perceptions can be shifted by teaching workshops on how to apply sustainable design methods in practice. We compare the trends for different methods on various dimensions such as creativity, design process time, product marketability etc. Results show an overall shift towards positive perception for all the methods on a majority of factors, indicating a way to ease the adoption of sustainable design into industry practice.

Keywords

sustainable designdesign methodsindustry practicecase studysustainability

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 2475 - 2484
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