Authors: Wen Xin and Zhang Fan

Authors: Gloria Morichi, Gabriela Fernandez, Lucas B. Calixto

A scientific literature review was carried out in relation to the topics of mechanical design, sustainability, product
design, sustainable design, making a list of tools to design with sustainable approach; the information was analysed
and diagrams and tables are presented Bonifaz Adonis, González Leopoldo | Proposal of recommendations for design
under sustainable approach: LCA case. | 2 indicating: considerations, recommendations, and tools to design,
methodologies and conclusions. The main topic that has been investigated is Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), so we have
focused the work on it. The purpose of this work is that people who are involved in the field of design have an approach
to sustainable approaches and can apply the tools making use of the recommendations to obtain better results.

Authors: Adonis Wenceslao Bonifaz Ramírez

There are different definitions of “generative design”, but this research is focused on the role of generative design
to support and provoke creative thinking; it means, as a developer of a common language that everyone can use
to express their ideas —“everyone” includes all social stakeholders, even whom Ezio Manzini calls “diffuse agents”
or those who experience the problem and for this reason become a fundamental source for the creation of possible
solutions.
An important fact to consider is: creativity does not happen inside a person’s head but in the interaction between
a person’s thoughts and a socio-cultural context (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996); as Sanders (2001) has stated collective
creativity can be very powerful and can lead to more culturally relevant results than individual creativity does.
Here relies the importance of studying this perspective as an important piece of sustainable development,
which “embodies integration, and understanding and acting on the complex interconnections that exist between the
environment, economy, and society ” (Drexhage & Murphy, 2010).

Authors: Erica Marlene Cortes López

Wouldn’t it be easier that we all agree on the perspective to tackle contemporary problems? That we have a clear vision
on the future and based on it we choose our stand or react to a situation. If for instance, a caravan of thousands
of migrants arrives to our country: what is the best perspective? What is the future that we want to create? What is
the way of acting with full integrity? And more important, what are the values that guides us? Why are so many people
choosing to become vegetarian, buying solar cells for their homes or rain collectors, choosing to use their bicycle
over their car? Is it just a trend? Is the level of consciousness really rising in the society? Designers are taking a stand
and working actively for proposing ideas into the wicked problems and driving social innovation. As a guild, there
should be agreements and a shared heterogenic vision.

Authors: Sergio Dávila Urrutia

With the increasingly severe environmental problems, more and more people pay attention to the concept of sustainable
design, looking for the design method to let people and nature live in harmony. Due to the acceleration of
urbanization and the large amount of waste surge, the traditional waste recycling technology can not adapt to the
requirements of urban waste recycling. There are still some defects in the design of waste separation and recovery facilities,
so it is urgent to redesign them. The design of the article is based on sustainable design concept and systematic
design method, the current situation of garbage sorting recycling, municipal waste recycling research, customer
demand research, recycling label design way, garbage collection, garbage recycling facilities design and other aspects
of practice and explore, from the each link of recycling, gives a kind of high efficient, beautiful, sustainable urban
garbage sorting recycling system.

Authors: Chenglin He

Authors: Wandong Chen, Jun Zhang

The recent development of urban Macao calls for renewal or redevelopment of many historical community districts.
The Iao Hon community is an old community with more than 40 years in Macao. The poor living conditions in Iao
Hon have seriously affected the quality of life of its residents. This research takes on Iao Hon as the study site and
conducts surveys of residents on satisfaction with their living conditions and willingness to renew. Descriptive and
referential statistical analyses will be performed. The objective of this study is to identify and justify a set of practical
and sustainable renewal strategies to revitalise the community. More specifically, the strategies will ensure Iao Hon to
be an economically sustainable community with diverse businesses, an environmentally sustainable community with
ecological and livable neighbourhoods, and a socially sustainable community with equality and happiness, so that
Iao Hon becomes an exemplar community in Macau for other communities to emulate for renewal.

Authors: Xiaoyi Yan, Long Zhou, Guoqian Shen

Sustainable development and creative thinking have become central aspects of Higher Education in today’s
multi-disciplinary world. By considering the balance between learning and teaching priorities, the Design Academy,
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and School of Design, Jiangnan University incorporate the author’s newly evolved teaching
methodology — 3A: ’ Acknowledgement, Action and Accountability’ model of sustainable development and
creativity — into its taught programs at all levels. The 3A model is a formative learning method for building capability
of individuals to create changes toward sustainable development. This paper first defines the 3A design teaching
process in the context of sustainability and sustainable development. Acknowledgment is the appreciation and
recognition of the importance and quality of sustainability in the face of global challenges, with a particular focus on
team effort, co-design and sharing findings and practices. Action is the establishment of design strategic and action
plans that consider not only the importance of intents, goals, affordable and reachable resources, but also a clear
roadmap for achieving maximum efficiency when tackling the most challenging tasks. Accountability deals with the
growing understanding of the benefits of working together to tackle global challenges such as Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) practices. Based on evidences from the feedback and evaluations of action research, the research
team plans to further refine the 3A design teaching methodology and create a model that can be implemented and
scaled effectively with collaborative partners from community, business and local government.

Authors: Yanyan Lam, Shengfeng Duan

Because of the rapid increase in Internet products, such as smartphone applications, numerous innovative business
models have been created, along with some typical, attendant social problems. This is an ethics study and risk assessment
of design. “SIP” is an acronym for “Sociality Internet Products.” It was created in this study to explore a new
design epistemology point of view. The study shows analysis models of legal research first. Then it provides analysis
diagrams and statements of design, including how more indirect stakeholders are related to the system, and it proposes
several pieces of supplementary advice to help the future design of business models. Throughout this study, it
is important to understand that the sustainability of a commercial product relates not only to capitals and occupancy,
but also to a healthy and balanced relationship between citizens, society, and the environment.

Authors: Zhilong Luan, Xiaobo Lu