MENTOR SESSION – Product Design for Circular Economy - Tox (Marten Toxopeus)

ACTIVITIES Products, Objects, Hardware
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Hi @Tox

Thank you for you mentorship! I have questions regarding:

##Modularity?
I recently started to develop open source products that are supposed to be circular (Mifactori). My starting point is “modularity”. So modularity first.

For someone with less experience it is pretty obvious that modularity is probably a key road towards circular design.

But the more I talk to engineers and collect data the more doubts I have about this. Or at least, I see more and more difficulties. What do you know/learned about modularity? Is this something that we need to explore more? Are their cases/areas where it works well and others where we know it does not work?

Any general recommendations?

(I work with a standardized 3x3cm grid in all the designs I do - for example for our OSCEdays Berlin furniture – which is inspired by the Open Structures project - (what do you think about this approach))