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Exploring the design and perceived benefit of sustainable solutions: a review
The demand for more innovative solutions to meet progressively complex consumer
requirements is increasingly at the forefront of design practice and research.
Coinciding with this is the stipulation for more environmentally, socially and
economically sustainable services. Although many approaches towards the design
of more systemic and sustainable solutions exist, the terminology to describe
them is manifold. Subsequently, confusion surrounding the cross-disciplinary
process that stakeholders are required to follow is increasingly apparent. This
paper presents a critical review of multiple-design approaches from the
perspective of the stakeholders involved and identifies a set of attributes that
are common to them. It is concluded that stakeholders could substantially
benefit from a supportive framework of common characteristics to enable the
integrative design of more systemic and sustainable solutions