Data-driven modular design for sustainable products

气候危机需要新的经商方式。据估计，产品80%的环境影响是在设计阶段决定的。模块化产品架构长期以来一直被吹捧为一种更可持续的设计和生产手段，但商业实施滞后。该项目旨在利用一流的产品搜索数据来开发更可持续设计的产品并将其商业化。该项目将专注于其主要申请者的本地产品类别，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微差别的客户数据，以生成模块化产品范围的概要；2)我们将使用模块化产品架构设计和制作小范围产品的原型；3)我们将与英国当地工厂合作设计制造产品，并将我们的产品线商业化，提供以用户为中心的电子商务体验。我们的愿景是启发和支持更高质量、可取性和低影响的产品的设计和生产。这一方法最终将是开源的，并适用于众多产品类别，推动从生产过剩向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.