Resource Conscious Design Workshop
The Imagination Factory, design and engineering teams, bring with them over 20 years experience in industrial design, creative engineering and technology integration. This workshop is an opportunity for design led businesses to tap into the latest industry insights whilst discovering in practical terms, how this will impact it's own products and how to improve repairability and durability, in a fast-paced, hands on day.
“I discovered the complexity of recycling makes implementation challenging but not impossible”
“We’ve got some quick wins immediately to improve our sustainability”
What will you gain?
- Learn the keys to successful circular product development
- Discover and practice tools and techniques that your team can start using immediately
- Create a roadmap for improving your organisation's products
Who will run the workshop?
The Imagination Factory is a team of designers and creative engineers applying Resource-Conscious Design on a daily basis.
We have also been trained to facilitate innovation workshops which we have delivered for leading organisations around the world.
What's involved?
- Interactive sessions to learn and apply techniques
- 8 to 16 people from your team will be guided through learning and working together
- Knowledge sharing from our experts in circular product design
- Evaluation of your products live in the workshop
Who should attend?
The Resource-Conscious Design workshop brings together people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds within your organisation so that a shared understanding can be achieved.
This can include designers, engineers, marketing, product developers, R&D, strategy and sustainability leads.
Discover tools and techniques for circular product design.
We believe that designers commit the Earth’s resources to their creations, the moment they put pen to paper, and it is said that 80% of a product’s environmental impact is decided at the concept stage.
With this as our driving force, we are looking for design-led businesses, interested in improving their sustainability strategies, to join us as we seek to bring to market more products designed with the end in mind.
What's the cost and what's included?
- The workshop has a fixed cost and works best with 8-16 participants - contact Mark for details.
- All materials and preparation before the workshop are included.
- We can facilitate workshops online using the MURAL platform if that makes it easier to convene your team.
How to book a workshop
We have allocated a limited number of days each year, for the full day workshop, so please contact us ASAP if you are interested in know more, and we can discuss what your organisation needs.
We can then reserve a date for your team and provide you with information to share internally, to assure a good multi-disciplinary representation on the day. Complete the form below and we'll be in touch to book a time to speak.
CASE STUDY: Designing with the end in mind
Together with FundWaste - an innovative start-up with a vision to enable businesses to generate revenue from waste - we set out to design a product using both 'Design For' and 'From Recycling' strategies.
Our design enables the production of units from PCR plastics, whilst ensuring they are still suitable for effective shredding and reuse at end of life. The complexity of the project was increased with the introduction of a camera and sensors, which had to be fully removable from the shell of the product so the entire product could be returned to the 'circular economy' at the end of life.
Curious to know more?
The Imagination Factory is a product design, engineering and innovation studio. Our experienced teams, blend insight, intuition and ideas with a resource-conscious and human-centred design approach.
We provide the benefit of many years working as lead consultants and in-house experts within the worlds of industrial design and design engineering. Our teams partner with yours to demystify the front end of innovation for joined-up strategy, smoother development and faster delivery.
If you would like to talk to us about a design or engineering problem that needs solving, a solution that needs a strategy or an idea that needs turning into a reality, drop us a line.