Print Email Facebook Twitter Design for Sustainability in the Fuzzy Front End Title Design for Sustainability in the Fuzzy Front End Author Boks, C. Wever, R. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2007-10-30 Abstract Design for Sustainability has traditionally focused strongly on green fulfilment of a given function, i.e. the process after a design brief has been formulated. The part of the New Product Development process that comes before the formulation of the design brief, is usually referred to as the Fuzzy Front End. Here, the function is determined that the new product should fulfil. From a sustainability perspective this phase is interesting as it may yield sustainable functions, resulting in products that are sustainable because they solve or reduce an external environmental problem. To achieve this, sustainability aspects need to be incorporated in existing tools and methods of the Fuzzy Front End. This paper discusses the potential for sustainable-function products and the lack of academic attention this type of innovation has received until now. It also discusses the potential adaptations of tools and methods. Subject front end innovationgreen productsecodesigneco-functioneducation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7dd9685d-9374-4bd1-8c19-ce0582f3301a Publisher The Centre for Sustainable Design Source Sustainable Innovation 07 Conference, Farnham, UK Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2007 Wever, R.; Boks, C. Files PDF DfS_in_the_fuzzy_front_end.pdf 100.32 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7dd9685d-9374-4bd1-8c19-ce0582f3301a/datastream/OBJ/view