Cupje

Cupje

Stimulated and co-financed by the Province of Fryslan, Lab Vlieland andMSc TU Delft design engineering student Marta Axpe (2013) developed a foldable drinking device -CUPJE- for festivals and events, which is biodegradable -with local plant seeds inside for local re-growth- and plastic free. High-quality water is tapped from the locally available grid.

Cupje and its design variations have found their way well into the events market today. Source: Library TU Delft. (ref: Educational Repository – Axpe, Creating Drinking Water Awareness at the Into The Great Wide Open, 2013.).

Source: Library TU Delft.

Example of strategy 2C: 

Stimulate and Support Product Development

As a local/regional government you can support the development of new products, services, and processes by your local industries. This may include more efficient production processes, with more efficient use of local resources. It can also concern new concepts like circular design (slowing, narrowing and looping the material fluxes on the island), the combined design of products and services (PSS), ecologically responsible landscape and town development, nature services, and new business development.

As partner in these development processes, a basic understanding of design methodology and tools is recommended. Good starting points are industrial design programs like those  from the Aalto Design Factory  (2018) and the Delft University of Technology, with its’ Delft Design Guide (2010). With respect to the creation of novel product-service combinations, Bocken et al (2013) propose a straightforward method based on a value mapping tool.

For island urban development methodologies such as that from RMIT on sustainable scenario development and eco-acupuncture (Gaziulusoy & Ryan, 2017), or from AMS Amsterdam -Institute of Advanced Metropolitan Studies- are also sources of inspiration (AMS,  2018). Most recently, Fabrizio Ceschin of the Brunel University London and Idil Gaziulusoy of Aalto University Finland published a comprehensive overview of  the design for sustainability field (Ceschin and Gaziulusoy, 2019). A PDF version of the book is available for free in Open Access from Routledge at www. taylorfrancis.co.  If local governments want to be a serious partner in a TIPPING development process, basic knowledge of such methods and tools is a must.

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