Design for Sustainability

Xin Liu is a full professor at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. He is the joint coordinator of LeNS-China (the international learning network on Design for Sustainability) and the DESIS Lab at Tsinghua University. He teaches the "Design for Sustainability" course and has led one National Social Science Fund project and two sub-projects under the National Natural Science Foundation. He is also an experienced designer with a long-term background in the automotive industry. Under his supervision, student teams have received several prestigious design awards, including the iF Award, Good Design Award, Red Star Award, and Design Intelligence Award.Fang Zhong is a faculty member at the School of Design, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and a co-coordinator of the DESIS Lab at Tsinghua University. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Design from Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on sustainable design and social innovation, with particular interests in waste systems, food systems, aging design, and community-based design.Jun Zhang is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Sustainable Design Program at the School of Design, Hunan University. He holds a Ph.D. in System Design Methodology (2017) and supervises cross-disciplinary Ph.D. candidates in Design. He is head of the Sustainable Design Network Lab (LeNS Lab, EU-funded) at HNU and joint coordinator of the DESIS Lab at Hunan University (a DESIS-China member). With over 20 years of experience in Product-Service System Design, UX research, and design for sustainability and social innovation, he now focuses on design strategies and model evolution in the design transition era, especially digital approaches in Design for Sustainability. He co-founded LeNS-China in 2010 and the Service Design Education Network in China in 2017.

• .- Chapter 1: Sustainable Development..- Chapter 2: Design for Sustainability..- Chapter 3: Lifecycle Design..- Chapter 4: Design for Recycling..- Chapter 5: Design for Reuse and Upcycling..- Chapter 6: Emotional Durability Design..- Chapter 7: Design for Reduction..- Chapter 8: Design Learning from Nature..- Chapter 9: Product-Service System Design..- Chapter 10: Design for Social Innovation..- Chapter 11: Distributed Economy..- Chapter 12: Systemic Design..- Conclusion.