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Interdisciplinary Transition Innovation, Management, and Engineering (InTIME) Design: an intersection analysis of design approaches for whole-system sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Florian Ahrens ,
Susan Krumdieck  and
Daniel Kenning
Florian Ahrens*
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Susan Krumdieck
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Daniel Kenning
Affiliation:
Splendid Engineering, United Kingdom
*
fja2000@hw.ac.uk

Abstract

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Interdisciplinary transition innovation, management, and engineering (InTIME) Design has been developed to overcome sustainability transition challenges in complex systems. The intersections of InTIME Design with a range of reported design for sustainability (DfS) approaches were analysed. Results demonstrate similar core principles across DfS approaches. InTIME Design accomplishes convergence of the studied approaches, and organises the DfS approaches into workflow phases, adds a complimentary wicked problem definition, and deploys systems engineering problem solving.

Keywords

design processwhole-system sustainabilitytransition engineeringsustainable design

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Type
Design for Sustainability
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 1169 - 1178
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