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Circular Design Principles: Overcoming Material Barriers

Circular Design Principles: Overcoming Material Barriers

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Implementing Circular Design Principles

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What should designers know about materials before product
development? In this episode, Andreas Maegerlein, Head of the
Creation Center Europe at BASF, talks about circular design from a
material perspective, focusing on how material choices enable or
limit circularity. The conversation looks at how product design is
affected when materials are developed to last for decades, while
products are often designed to be disposable or short-lived. What
you’ll hear in this episode: • The importance of aligning material
choice with product lifetime and use cycles •Why material selection
need to be informed by recycling infrastructure, recycling
technologies, and energy-usage • How the role of designers is
evolving from showcasing quality alone toward also conveying
sustainability This episode opens the series Implementing Circular
Design Principles, produced in collaboration with the German Design
Council. The series explores how design decisions shape circular
outcomes at the material, product, and system level, following the
principles of Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.