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The environmental problems are a reality in the Colombian context and its effects are associated with high costs invested to solve health problems and the damage of ecosystems. Higher education promotes a change of values, behaviors, skills, knowledge that could help humanity to be closer to sustainable development. This is the case of the Eco-design class, part of the environmental management emphasis of the Industrial Engineering program of El Bosque University in Colombia. In this class, pedagogical projects are developed in which students apply and present the gained knowledge during semester in an institutional event every semester. In this paper, is analysed the scope of the projects in accordance with levels of ecodesign application and levels of the evolution of design for sustainability, finding that the class has advanced in the last years generating innovative projects focus on the development of sustainable product-service systems. Moreover, is reviewed how from the class are promoted key sustainable development competences.
Authors: Carolina Montoya-Rodríguez
In the recent years, Energy Poverty (EP) has become a big challenge in the European Union (EU), affecting 50 to 125 million of EU citizens. The EU is working to implement effective actions to tackle it. Home retrofitting is the most impacting solution, but it requires a large amount of money; on the other hand, energy-related behaviour change represents a first step for vulnerable consumers to reduce energy consumption and energy bills. With this aim, ASSIST 2gether project (H2020, Grant Agreement 754051) has created the “Home Energy Advisor” (HEA), trained with an innovative course, about energy, social system and communication skills. The goal of the HEAs is to implement pilot actions to mitigate EP by educating vulnerable consumers and increasing their consumption awareness, through behaviour change. In this paper, the planning and first results of HEAs training are described and analysed, together with the possible impacts on energy poor consumers.
Authors: Anna Realini, Simone Maggiore, Marina Varvesi, Valentina Castello, Corrado Milito
The built environment has a great responsibility for energy consumption and carbon emissions worldwide. Thus, energy conservation in building plays a vital role in sustainable economic growth. Researchers from many disciplines have devoted to the field of design for energy-efficient buildings. However, human factors, as the way people interact or use the designed environment, are also fundamental. In particular, colour-temperature perceptual associations might be used to influence people’s thermal experiences. In this study, we presented two national groups of participants with four rooms in Virtual Reality (VR) to test the effect of coloured ambient light on the perceived thermal comfort, context of use and ambient atmosphere. The results showed that room-lighting could affect the thermal comfort perceived and its advantage for energy conservation. Detailed analyses and future developments are also discussed.
Authors: Siyuan Huang, Giulia Wally Scurati, Roberta Etzi, Francesco Ferrise, Serena Graziosi, Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue, Alberto Gallace, Monica Bordegoni
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Despite Product-Service Systems (PSS) research being largely developed lately, applications are still limited in parts by implying changes in consumer practices. One of the main barriers is in the change of perception since some types of PSS propose the satisfaction of needs without product ownership, which highlights emotional aspects and involves a change in social behavior. This paper aims to characterize the contribution of Emotional Design in the Functional Economy and PSS. We discuss the concepts of Functional Economy, PSS and Emotional Design. We developed a bibliographic research for the definition of the theoretical background and applied the content analysis method to collect and analyze data. The results show that the contribution of Emotional Design in PSS for Functional Economy is of four distinct natures: (1) Strategies in Product Design (visceral, behavioral and reflective levels); (2) Emotional, psychological and cognitive aspects; (3) Experiences; and (4) User-centered design.
Authors: Manuela Gortz, Décio Estevão do Nascimento