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Functional product enrichment and supply chain disorganisation: two barriers for sustainable design

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  • Gwenola Bertoluci
  • Dominique Millet

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The purpose of this article is to consider a new way of understanding the usefulness of products in the globalised society and to explain a new approach to designing in industrial organisations. To do this, we shall present two current trends in the field of design, namely, the continuous functional enhancement that products undergo and the inescapable segmentation that is at work in production procedures. We shall analyse the harm arising for the environment from these two trends using three concrete examples (the office chair, the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) and the automated washing machine system) and will thus show the incompatibility of these trends with the concept of sustainable development. These three studies will lead us finally to suggest the need to commit to a change in the pattern of activity involving design based on the modification of four principles.

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  • Gwenola Bertoluci & Dominique Millet, 2009. "Functional product enrichment and supply chain disorganisation: two barriers for sustainable design," International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1/2), pages 149-169.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:7:y:2009:i:1/2:p:149-169
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