Circular design: the next step of design thinking?

Circular design, by bringing the subject of resources to the forefront, also creates an opportunity to integrate increasingly more important strategic dimensions in an ever-changing world.

Shifting to a circular mindset when it comes to design can prove to be delicate.

Thrilled to launch our EP66 which is all about circular design thinking.

In this episode, we had the pleasure to chat with Karel J. Golta, Founder and CEO of INDEED Innovation, about circular design, strategic innovation, and speculative design.

His team had the chance to bring a strong perspective of circular design into recent projects and he shares the learnings on scaling from user-centric design to circular design.

Where not just incorporate more data and more stakeholders into the project but also approach your design with a new mindset.

Further, we also discussed the overlap between speculative design and circular design.

We also talk about AI and how the tools and the processes actually going to change and influence the future job of the designer.

In the episode, we jump into:

How to design for circularity?

The role of ESGs for designers.

User-centred design vs circular design.

Why sustainability requires system thinking?

Creating frameworks for circularity.

Importance of Co-Creation on designing a circular product.

Why designers should be more focused on the circular design?

Thanks a lot for your time and for your learning Karel!