Sustainable Innovation 07
Global Building and Construction: Systems, Technologies, Products and Services

Towards Sustainable
Product Design 12
12th International Conference
29th - 30th October 2007
Farnham Castle International Briefing and Conference Centre, Farnham, Surrey
, UK

Reviewed papers: Programme and Abstracts

 
Policy


Location:
Talbot 2

Innovation and
Design 1


Location:
Great Hall


Innovation and
Design 2


Location: Winchester Room

Tools and Techniques

Location:
Guildford Room

Case Studies


Location:
Library

Chair
John Paul Kusz, Director, Center Sustainable Enterprise, Stuart School of Business, IIT

John Thorp,
Chief Executive, Energy Efficiency Services Company (EESCo), Thameswey Ltd

Dr Kerry J Mashford, Head, Sustainable Manufacturing & Construction, Arup, UK
Graham Tubb,
Head of Energy Policy,
South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA)

Matthias Gelber,
Director,
International Building Materials Ltd

09.45

An innovation system perspective in environmental policy making – what is the added value?

Eva Ahlner and Erika Budh, Section of Environmental Economics & Sustainable Production and Consumption, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden

Passive urban design as a form of countermeasures
against urban heat island

Yukihiro Masuda, Lecturer, Advanced Research Institute
for Sci. & Eng, Nobuyuki
Takahashi
and Toshio Ojima,Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Solar lighting for rooms without windows

Associate Professor Douglas Tomkin, School of Design, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Create Acceptance – development of a research-based multi-stakeholder tool for managing the societal acceptance of sustainable energy technology projects

Eva Heiskanen, National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland

Should Change be Radical?

Jody Boehnert, Graphic Designer, UK

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"Living, Learning, Leaving a Legacy"
Design or Default?

JohnPaul Kusz, Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise, IIT Stuart School of Business, US and
Doris Wells-Papanek, Design Consultant, Tailored Learning Tools, US

 

 

Disconnecting Design from the Bottom Line
Separating material culture from wealth creation for the development of meaningful and significant sustainable solutions


Stuart Walker PhD, Professor and Associate Dean (Research and International) Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada

Towards the tipping point for social innovation

Steven MacGregor, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Mattia Bianchi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Jose Hernandez and Kepa Mendibil, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Design for Sustainability in the Fuzzy Front End

Renee Wever, Delft University of Technology, Design for Sustainability group, the Netherlands & Casper Boks, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Department of Product Design, Norway

Innovation Systems and Transformation in Industries: the Case of Energy Efficiency innovations in the Nordic Housing Markets

Tareq Emtairah and Åke Thidell, Naoko Tojo, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden

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Forest, wood, wood products and the consumers
– Some empirical evidences and strategies


Dr. Frieder Rubik, Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Germany

Sustainable Insights:
re-connecting electronic products through ‘integrated scales of design, production and post-use for sustainability’

Cagla Dogan, PhD Candidate and Stuart Walker, Professor of Industrial Design, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada

Why sustainable building technology start-ups fail

Robert Ellis, Research Associate, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, UK

Integrating Design for Environment into everyday product design practice

Lizzie Dutton, The Design Unit, Faculty of Art and Design, De Montfort University, UK

Let’s Talk - dialogue, design and sustainability

Stuart Walker PhD, Professor and Associate Dean (Research and International) Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada and Celia Lee
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Diffusion of innovation in agriculture: the case of improved irrigation technologies for sugarcane in Reunion Island

Richefort L, Ph.D. Candidate, CERESUR, University of Reunion Island and UMR G-EAU, CIRAD, France, Farolfi S. Researcher, UMR G-EAU, CIRAD, France/University of Pretoria, South Africa and Fusillier J-L, Researcher, UMR G-EAU, CIRAD, France

A Web Based Approach for Integrating EcoDesign into the Product Design Process

Vic Clements, Environmental Specialist and Senior Manager, ENVIRON UK Ltd, UK

Investigation of District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Plant in the Tokyo Area

Mingfeng Cao, Graduate School of Science and & Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and Toshio Ojima, Tokyo, Japan

Main features of a Monitoring-System for measuring sustainable consumption

Carolin Baedeker, Dr. Christa Liedtke and Dr. Maria Jola Welfens, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy; Research Group IV, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Germany

Heating Homes, not the Planet

Tom Greenwood, Product Design Associate, University of Wolverhampton/Charlton and Jenrick Ltd, UK

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The Visual and Sensual Communication of Sustainability
A review of product and building manufacturing techniques to promote appropriate practices for building and product design to enhance sustainable lifestyles.

Brian Burns, Associate Professor, School of Industrial Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Remanufacturing and Product Design

Casper Gray, Co-Director, Wax RDC Ltd, UK

The Sustainable Innovation through indigenous, communal Designs, using locally produced raw natural fibre materials in South Africa-A value chain and integrated approach to community empowerment.

Thierry Alban Revert,
Technology and Business Development Manager
ICOFE
International - Consortium Of Future Energies
, South Africa.

Improvement in the
Efficiency of District
Heating and Cooling
(DHC) with a Regional
Steam Network of
CHPs and Municipal
Incineration

Eisuke Hori, Mingfeng Cao,Toru Ichikawa and Toshio Ojima, Graduate, School, Sci. & Eng, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 

User Knowledge in Housing Energy Innovations

Eva Heiskanen, National Consumer Research Centre, Finland and Raimo Lovio, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

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12.15

ModCell – an offsite construction system for sustainable, natural materials

Peter Homer and Craig White, ModCell, UK

 

Checkpoint Future: Consumption

Dr. Christa Liedtke, Dr. Maria Jola Welfens, Carolin Baedeker, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy; Research Group IV – Sustainable Production and Consumption, Germany

 

 

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