Circular practices
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Refuse
Rethink
Reduce
Reuse
Repair
Refurbish (=updating)
Remanufacture
Repurpose
Recycle
Rot
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The Ikego project is the result of a long reflection how design should look like and be organized to enable all of these practices. Modular products made from open multipurpose parts are the answer.
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Refuse
“Make product redundant by abandoning its function or by offering the same function with a radically different product.”
Why buy new products when you can turn what you already have into what you need now. Quickly transform your home for a party or overnight guests without buying extra furniture. DWMP educates people to find other solutions to buying new stuff. Hack your home.
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Rethink
“Make product use more intensive (e.g. by sharing product)”
Design with multipurpose parts turns products into transformable objects. Use the same collection of parts to solve different problems – one after the other. This is different.
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Reduce
“Increase efficiency in product manufacture or use by consuming fewer natural ressources and materials”
See above ↑ “Design with multipurpose parts turns products into transformable objects. Use the same collection of parts to solve different problems – one after the other.” Buy less.
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Reuse
“Reuse by another consumer of discarded product which is still in good condition and fulfills its original function”
See above ↑ plus: Design with multipurpose parts is perfect for second-hand markets. Your sofa is not just a sofa, but a collection of parts to build all sorts of things. Someone might buy your sofa because they need a sofa. Another might buy your sofa because they want two armchairs and your sofa is the perfect parts dispenser for them.
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Repair
“Repair and maintenance of fefective product so it can be used with its original function”
Ideally, Design with multipurpose parts consists of parts that are easy to make, open and well documented and a product is easy to disassemble and reassemble. This makes repair possible. If the broken part is a very popular and widely used part – because it is super universal – it will also be easy to find an existing replacement on the market.
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Refurbish
“Restore an old product and bring it up to date”
Design with multipurpose parts has designed products that can be taken apart, updated and put back together again. There are new parts that give your products additional features? Just add them.
Or after disassembly: Individual parts can be cleaned and reused – at an industrial level. Universal parts have a shorter shelf-life. Many possibilities are calling.
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Remanufacture
“Use parts of discarded product in new product with same function”
Design with multipurpose parts transforms products into easily accessible parts collection points. It’s hard to imagine a design that better supports remanufacturing.
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Repurpose
“Use discarded product or its parts in a new product with a different function”
This is the heart of Design with multipurpose parts! And it accelerates it with its collaborative approach. Together we can creatively expand the catalog of available repurposing options. Your products become more transformable over time!
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Recycle
“Process materials to obtain the same (high grade) or lower (low grade) quality”
Design with multipurpose parts makes products that are easy to disassemble. You can separate the parts and therefore – if the parts are made of only one material – you can separate the materials more easily. The difficulty of separating materials is often the biggest barrier to recycling. If you think about the tolerance idea (see “DWMP strives to be easy to produce” ↑) – you can choose recycled materials from the start and/or use materials that are easy to recycle.
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Rot
“Rot is natures way of recycling”
The answer is basically the same as for recycling: Design with multipurpose parts makes products that are easy to disassemble. You can separate the compostable parts for composting. If you think about the tolerance idea (see “Design with multipurpose parts strives to be easy to produce” ↑) – you can choose materials that are compostable from the start, if you have access to them.
