Key Competencies for Design in a Circular Economy: Exploring Gaps in Design Knowledge and Skills for a Circular Economy

The first internationally verified, coherent set of key circular economy competencies for design.

Scientific article identifies 9 circular competencies for design:

1) Design for multiple use cycles

2) Design for Recovery,

3) Circular Impact Assessment

4) Circular Business Models,

5) Circular User Engagement,

6) Circular Collaboration,

7) Circular Communication,

8) Circular Systems Thinking and

9) Circular Materials and manufacturing.

Online survey with designers in NL, followed-up by survey with 128 respondents from 25 countries working on CE projects.