Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency

摘要: This paper explores the narrative of peoples’ relationships with products as a window on understanding types innovation that may inform culture sufficiency. The work forms part ‘Business Unusual: Designing Products Consumers in Loop’ [BaU] project, funded UK EPSRC-ESRC RECODE network (RECODE, 2016) aims to explore potential re-distributed manufacturing (RdM) context sustainability. element project employed interviews, mapping and workshops methods investigate relationship between people across product lifecycle. A focus longevity specifically people-product interactions is captured conversations around maintenance repair. In exploring ideas ‘broken’ we found different characteristics of, motivations for, Mapping these other product-people lifecycle indicated where current activity is, who owns such (i.e. organisation or individual) gaps occur. These issues were explored further workshop which grouped participants look at from perspective one four scenarios; each scenario represented either short long lifespans engagement design process. findings help give shape new scenarios for designing sufficiency-based social models material flows.