Challenges in addressing sustainability within product development

Journal
Proceedings of the Design Society  
Volume
5
Start Page
901
End Page
910
Citation
Proceedings of the Design Society 5: 901-910 (2025)
Publisher DOI
10.1017/pds.2025.10104
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-105022809390
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Due to climate change, sustainability has become a crucial topic in product development, while addressing it is associated with many challenges. Based on a literature review, those challenges are collected and clustered into nine categories and sub-categories defined for this purpose. Additionally, a research project is analysed. The exhibited challenges such as data availability versus influenceability, a lack of unified sustainability criteria, and decision-making trade-offs underscore the need for refined methodologies and collaboration in sustainability-oriented design. The differently sourced challenges are compared and the new challenges arising from the research project are sorted into the categories. Finally, possible reasons are discussed for why within the project only challenges from four out of nine categories are encountered.
Subjects
sustainability
product development
challenges
design practice
design process
DDC Class
600: Technology
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