Data-driven modular design for sustainable products

气候危机需要新的经营方式。据估计，80%的产品环境影响是在设计阶段决定的。模块化产品架构长期以来被吹捧为一种更可持续的设计和生产方式，但商业实施滞后。该项目旨在利用一流的产品搜索数据，开发和商业化更多可持续设计的产品。该项目将专注于其主要申请人的产品类别，即专业箱包的设计和生产。该项目包括三个阶段：1）我们将收集和综合细致入微的客户数据，以制作模块化产品系列的简介，2）我们将使用模块化产品架构设计和制作小型产品系列的原型3）我们将与英国当地工厂合作设计制造，并以用户为中心，电子商务经验。我们的愿景是激发和实现更高质量、更受欢迎和更低影响的产品的设计和生产。这种方法最终将开源并适用于众多产品类别，推动从生产过剩到可持续共同创造的紧迫过渡。

The climate crisis requires new ways of doing business. An estimated 80% of a product's environmental impact is decided at the design phase. Modular product architecture has long been touted as a more sustainable means of design and production, but commercial implementation lags behind. This project aims to leverage first-in-class product search data to develop and commercialise more sustainably designed products.This project will focus on a product category native to its lead applicant, the design and production of professional bags. The project consists of three phases: 1) We will collect and synthesise nuanced customer data to produce a brief for a modular range of products, 2) We will design and prototype a small product range using modular product architecture 3) We will design for manufacturing in collaboration with a local UK factory and commercialise our product line with a user-centric, e-commerce experience.Our vision is to inspire and enable the design and production of products which are of higher quality, desirability, and lower-impact. This methodology will ultimately be open sourced and applicable across numerous product categories, fuelling the urgent transition from overproduction to sustainable co-creation.