Do user driven innovation and ecodesign enrich or fight one another, and does sufficient methodologies for combining the two exist?
Year: 2013
Editor: Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Herskind, Mathies; Sidelmann, Kristian
Series: ICED
Institution: Technical University of Denmark
Page(s): 181-190
ISBN: 978-1-904670-48-3
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
This paper is a theoretical investigation and case study of the presently highly debated and much referenced terms ‘ecodesign’ and ‘user driven innovation’, with the aim of illuminating the juxtaposition of the two terms. The terms are briefly described, addressed further through a number of cases and discussed with regards to how they correlate to each other. In order to illustrate the area assumptions of the underlying design methodologies have been made. A possible connection between the two is established and the areas in which they collide are illuminated. It is shown how scripting can be utilized to help establish the intended product usage. Both by providing information to the users for them to act in a reasoned fashion and by behavioural steering that guides the users to act in a sustainable desirable manner without necessarily having to make a conscious decision regarding the matter. Finally it is proposed that the current set of methodologies of combining the two are insufficient, and that new methodologies would be beneficial for future product development
Keywords: Sustainability, eco design, human behaviour in design, scripting, user driven innovation