PRODUCT FOUNDRY: Sustainable Design

Join Product Foundry to learn how to make truly sustainable physical products, and build a design-led business that thrives in a new circular economy.

Product Foundry is an intensive 3-day programme for SMEs working in the design, manufacture, or distribution of physical products – from food to fashion, energy to electronics, homewares to healthcare and more.

Working with a group of 8-10 peers and invited experts in sustainable design, regenerative materials, and circular economy business, you’ll learn how your products function as they flow through systems of manufacture, use, and waste; and how you can take action to ensure they are valuable to people and planet throughout.

Product Foundry is an ideal programme for you if you're working on an innovation project to:

• Understand how your business can make truly sustainable products
• Learn about the tools you can use to assess the impact of your supply chain, manufacturing, use and post-use life of your products
• Create new products, or reimagine existing ones using regenerative best practice: with zero waste, a long-life and a positive impact on the environment

Product Foundry consists of:

• 3 day-long sessions, once a week for 3 weeks, working with experts and peers to develop innovative regenerative products
• Fully funded access to the Plus X Brighton workshop to work on your product - no membership to Plus X or fee required

What we’ll cover:

• How to reimagine your products as part of a regenerative system that helps people and planet thrive
• How to structure your business to enable you to make the right decisions about your products
• Key regenerative design strategies like designing out waste, design for adaptability and disassembly, and appropriate material choices
• How to use tools like lifecycle analysis to assess the impact of your products from supply chain through to disposal or remanufacturing

Current Schedule (subject to change):

Week 1 - Thursday 9th March, 10am-5pm

Week 2 - Thursday 16th March, 10am-5pm

Week 3 - Thursday 23rd March, 10am-5pm

If you are an established company looking to develop a sustainable product, or improve the sustainability of your existing products, packaging, manufacturing or business model, then this programme could be for you.

Have any questions or need more info? Pop us an email at [email protected].

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Plus X Innovation Hubs and the University of Brighton have teamed up to deliver a unique range of support so whatever your innovation challenge we can help you succeed. BRITE members occupy space at Plus X Brighton, which has seven floors of flexible work space, collaborative meeting rooms, specialist innovation workshops for prototyping and state of the art media suites. The BRITE project is receiving up to £5m of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.

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