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Please see below for an overview of Topical Tracks for PLATE 2023.

Track 1: PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

Colour and product lifetime

Distributed networks of localised fabrication, repair and remanufacturing

Longer lifetimes for buildings and construction products

The lifetimes of vehicles

Packaging Systems for the Circular Economy

Design methods and theories for Product Lifetimes and the Environment

Track 2: PRODUCT LIFETIMES IN THE CONTEXT OF A DIGITAL, CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Towards a Digital and Sustainable Circular Economy

Track 3: CONSUMPTION

The Retailers’ Perspective on Sustainable Behaviour Change

The Loved and the Pre-loved – Journey of Fashion Garments

Attachment to durable products

Sustainable Fashion Lifetimes and… Mindfulness

Understanding replacement behaviour

Sustainable Fashion Lifetimes and… The Use Phase

Sharing and access-based consumption

Track 4: REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE 

iFixit: Critical Views to Repair Strategies

Optimising Service Operations for the Repair Sector

Perceptions/adoption of refurbished products

Consumers’ Care and Maintenance Practices

Repurpose driven design and manufacturing

Track 5: SUFFICIENCY

Exnovation – on Designing for Less

Sustainable Fashion Lifetimes and… Sufficiency

Track 6: THE TREATMENT OF PRODUCT LIFETIMES IN CIRCULARITY REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE METHODOLOGY

Teaching and Learning for a Circular Economy

Development of Circularity Reporting and Disclosure Methodology

Track 7: REBOUND EFFECTS

The Unintended Consequences of CE and Sustainability Transitions

Track 8: POLICY and ECONOMY

Critical Value Chains

Multi-level Policies for Longer Lifetimes

Lifetime Labelling

(Designing) Business Models for Sustainability Transformation

Track 9: PLATE RELATED TOPICS

Other PLATE related topics

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