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Whole Systems Circular Design
Whole Systems Circular Design takes the concept of a fully integrative and regenerative system of development and integrates the social, economic, political as well as environmental impacts of these developments.
Circular Design
Circular economy is a model where materials are endlessly circulated through markets and no waste products are produced and nature is left to thrive without disturbance.
In other words, whereas most production systems make something to be consumed and then thrown away, circular design takes an existing material and upcycles it in a way that it can be endlessly upcycled.
This means that parts would be replaced and damage repaired rather than whole objects thrown to landfill. The goals of circular design concentrate on minimizing environmental impact in order to reach a zero-impact or even negative-impact design process and economy.
Whole Systems
Circular Design
Focusing on resilience and regeneration means accounting for social, economic, political and environmental impacts that all go into the objects we create, consume, waste, and the ways we live our lives.
Whole systems is an informed circular design process that considers fair wages, safe working conditions, clean water, community and environmental resilience, and minimizing overall negative externalities as an integral part of sustainable design.
This concept bases itself on a “Just Sustainabilities” philosophy, which acknowledges that environmental destruction is also destruction of people.
Though an emerging field, whole systems circular design puts environment and people first, creating a conscious and constructive result in the face of an existing exploitative environment.
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