Circular ReDesign Jam with Leyla Acaroglu

We are all citizen designers of a better future, and one way we can engage with designing for systems change and sustainability is through circular redesign! Take an everyday product that negatively impacts the planet. Think about its full life cycle, including options for circular design strategies, to come up with advanced sustainability solutions that reduce its impact on people and the planet.

The Circular ReDesign Jam will be hosted by Leyla Acaroglu, United Nations Environment Program Champion of the Earth and internationally known circular economy expert. Both professional designers and citizen designers are invited to generate ideas that challenge the waste-based economy, learn how to do a circular redesign process and uncover ways of creating for the circular economy.

This session is jam-packed with engaging and collaborative design activities that will ignite your curiosity about the circular economy and help you discover ways to design products that are planet-positive.

About Leyla Acaroglu

Leyla Acaroglu (PhD) is a leading sustainability strategist and provocateur – an expert on life cycle and systems thinking in design, production and consumption. Named Champion of the Earth by the UNEP in 2016, she is a designer, sociologist, educator and passionate proponent of sustainability in and through design. Leyla is also a well-respected international speaker, with over 1 million views on her TED talk. She developed the Disruptive Design Method for activating change, founded the UnSchool of Disruptive Design as well as the creative agency Disrupt Design, and created the rural regeneration, CO Project Farm in Portugal. Her award-winning designs and cerebrally-activating experiences, gamified toolkits, and unique educational experiences help people around the world to challenge the status quo and make positive social and environmental change.

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