Sustainable Design Considerations for Product Personalisation Adopting Half-way Design Approach
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: such as Do-It-Yourself (DIY) or mass-customisation, and not all necessarily contribute to product longevity, as the way a product is personalised and how many times this can happen may influence its lifespan.Accordingly, this study focuses on a specific form of personalisation: half-way design (Fuad-Luke, 2009), where products are partially produced and/or designed, allowing users to personalise and finalise them.This allows the use of local materials, skills, and production methods in the personalisation process, a key consideration across all sustainability dimensions (Doğan and Walker, 2008).Moreover, half-way design can allow continuous adaptation of products to meet changing or diverse user needs, which can positively affect product lifetime.Thus, its real value is beyond forming product attachment and rather creating evolving products adaptable to changing needs.
Authors: Ezgi OZAN AVCI, Çağla DOĞAN
Institutions: Middle East Technical University, Yaşar University
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7125525879
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