EcoDesign Circle focused on furthering innovation capacity of European companies through circular design approach.
Client
Design Forum
Year
2016-2021
Team
Anne Raudaskoski
Paula Fontell
Early design phase determines up to 80% of the product’s environmental impact. For this reason, EcoDesign Circle focused on furthering innovation capacity of European companies through circular design approach.
Covering 6 countries in the Baltic Sea Region and with a budget of 2,7M€ the five-year project generated methods, tools and platforms which were tested and iterated with several companies during the project.
As Design Forum’s selected partner, Ethica developed the EcoDesign Sprint as a unique business development and acceleration programme. EcoDesign Sprint is a combination of innovation, practical training and product & service development through circular economy thinking and design methods.
It is a strategic and hands-on tool for companies of all sectors, bringing together a multidisciplinary team of experts to work with the client company’s needs and novel circular business opportunities. A pool of companies (such as Nefab, Nola, Rockseri, Primus and Lumir) representing different sectors & sizes in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia have gone through the programme.
“We were encouraged to think outside the box and generate crazy ideas, which does not happen in the comfort zone. We were able to develop the concepts together quite far in just two days.”
– A view from a Sprint company
