ExPliCit - Exploring Plausible Circular futures

循环经济代表了一种新的范式，它能够通过改变生态系统和经济活动之间的关系来推动可持续发展的前沿。这种新的范式有望修复经济-社会-自然的相互作用，用一种通过意图和设计实现恢复性和再生性的新经济模式取代当前的线性经济模式。然而，尽管人们普遍认为向循环经济过渡可以促进更可持续的未来，但缺乏关于如何组织真正循环经济体系的讨论。当前大多数关于CE的文献都没有认识到这一点，将CE的过渡描述为一个直接、中立和非政治的过程，隐含着技术乐观主义和生态现代主义的立场。在这种背景下，本项目呼吁开展一场辩论，以解构基于技术官僚方法的CE日益霸权的话语，并通过嵌入规范和政治维度来重建它，研究多种可行的CE未来，并讨论其在生产和分销网络组织方面的影响，也涉及广泛的利益相关者。因此，该项目将涉及多个学科的观点，以设计未来的供应链配置，可以在特定的CE标准下实施在特定的工业部门。广泛的非学术受益者确保该项目将能够通过借调机制实现相关的知识转移。

Circular Economy (CE) represents a new paradigm that is capable of pushing the frontiers of sustainable development by transforming the relationships between ecological systems and economic activities. Such a new paradigm is expected to repair economy-society-nature interactions, replacing the current linear economic model with a new one that is restorative and regenerative by intention and design.However, while there is common agreement that the transition towards a CE could foster more sustainable futures, there is a lack of discussion about how a truly circular economic system should be organised. Most of the current literature on CE fails to recognise this, presenting the transition towards a CE as a straightforward, neutral, and apolitical process, implicitly characterised by a technooptimistic and eco-modernist stance.Within this context, this project calls for opening up a debate to deconstruct the increasingly hegemonic discourse of CE based on a technocratic approach and reconstruct it by embedding normative and political dimensions, looking at a plurality of plausible CE futures, and discussing their implications in terms of the organisation of production and distribution networks, also involving a wide set of stakeholders. As such, the project will involve a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, in order to devise future supply chainconfigurations that could be implemented in specific industrial sectors under specific CE scenarios.A wide array of non-academic beneficiaries ensures that the project will be capable of realising relevant knowledge transfer through secondment mechanisms.