Circularity assessment of companies
Type: #research
Goal: to identify the most relevant aspects to be considered when evaluating if a company integrates circular economy Users: investment banks, policy makers, companies, academic experts Duration: 6 months Insights: four aspects are relevant, the purpose of the tool, the scale of the tool, circularity principles and criteria. Available tools considered some of these aspects but none addressed all of them. Outcome: best master thesis, paper presented at the 2017 ISDRS conference in Colombia |
Human centred design and circular design tools
Goal: to identify opportunities for improvement of available design tools focusing on circularity regarding human-centred design
Duration: 4 months Users: designers Methods: literature review Insights: existing tools do not explicitly integrate human-centred approaches to circularity. Aspects such as new behaviors, new customer relations, barriers and context need to be included. Outcome: paper to be presented at hte 2019 PLATE conference in Berlin |
Toys subscription services
Type: #research
Goal: to identify acceptance and adoption factors for two digital toy subscription services Duration: 3 months Users: toy subscription services' customers in India and Luxembourg Methods: mixed methods. A customer survey exploring individual factors of acceptance and semi-structured interviews to investigate contextual conditions for adoption |
Fashion subscription services
Type: #research
Goal: to identify acceptance and adoption factors for three digital fashion subscription services Duration: 6 months Users: fashion subscription services' users offering a review in third-party sites Methods: user-generated online reviews in third-party sites. Findings: economic factors such as the offering, savings, and trust in the provider along with the impact the service had on the customer daily routines, influenced the decision to adopt the service Skills: web scrapping, qualitative analysis software, writing Final outcome: article in scientific journal |
Collaborative consumption in the fashion sector
Type: #research
Goal: to explore contextual conditions that support the implementation of swapping events Duration: 5 months Users: participants in three swapping initiatives in Colombia Methods: semi-structured interviews with organizers, partners and participants. Data was analysed qualitatively Findings: by changing meanings associated to the practice of swapping, organizers attracted more clients. They used the materials and set rules to alter pre-existing conceptions in their target audience Final outcome: article presented at the 2018 SCORAI conference in Copenhague, Denmark |