Print Email Facebook Twitter Nature-inspired design strategies in sustainable product development: A case study of student projects Title Nature-inspired design strategies in sustainable product development: A case study of student projects Author De Pauw, I.C. Karana, E. Kandachar, P.V. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2012-05-24 Abstract In design practice, Nature-Inspired Design Strategies (NIDS) can be applied when developing sustainable products. However, knowledge on how this actually helps designers is lacking. This study explores the effects of applying Cradle to Cradle and Biomimicry in student projects, as compared to using Ecodesign. The findings indicate that NIDS inspire the students, encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and provide absolute -instead of relative- design principles to guide the concept development. Furthermore, the use of examples from nature seems to benefit effective communication of their work. Subject sustainable product designbiomimicrycradle to cradledesign studentsdesign methods To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4f6ec339-72f6-444f-9711-ecb02535cb97 Publisher Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. The Design Society, Glasgow Source DESIGN 2012: 12th International Conference on Design, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 21-24 May 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The authors Files PDF 281641.pdf 276.12 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4f6ec339-72f6-444f-9711-ecb02535cb97/datastream/OBJ/view