Product-Service Systems: A Sustainable Design Strategy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 1776
Special Issue Editors
Interests: product and service design; digital innovation; user-oriented design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Social, economic, and ecological sustainable development are central to addressing the giant and complex societal challenges present today. Put bluntly, our planet cannot cope with the consequences of the increasing production and consumption of more products, but at the same time, humanity needs sustainable development and wellbeing. Cross-disciplinary research and collaborative efforts are important to solve these issues but are not straightforward. Product–service systems (PSS) are oriented toward the design and development of function and circularity, for example, solutions that prolong and extend the use stages of products such as sharing, renting, and pooling. Generally, PSS solutions strive to reduce the commoditization of things by turning them into services, and thus, fewer products and more services are foreseen to contribute to a sustainable future. Still, strategies, operational as well as tactical, seem to miss their target since the global climate and sustainable goals are at risk. Engineering is vital in the design and development of sustainable solutions, yet we need to rethink how to change our product-oriented mindset, because the traditional production approach did put us in this crisis in the first place. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present studies, empirical or conceptual, that inspire the PSS field of research and education. In this Special Issue, original research articles may address (but not limited to):
- Efforts in engineering training and practice, for example, commissioned education or student/industry collaborative projects;
- Innovative strategies for collaboration in early concept development;
- Agile and innovative methodologies for sustainable PSS;
- ‘Seeing-or doing-first’ methods (modeling, simulation, prototyping) that drive novel thinking and the progress of a PSS paradigm in engineering;
- Digital service innovation for sustainable PSS;
- Interesting and reflective research related to the problematization of the above topics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Åsa Ericson
Dr. Johan Lugnet
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conceptual design
- sustainable innovation
- engineering training and education
- decision support
- co-production
- co-creation
- circular economy
- sustainability tools
- development processes
- eco-design
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