The BBC's Circular Economy series highlights the ways we are designing systems to reduce the waste modern society generates, by reusing and repurposing products.
Products should be physically robust and adaptable enough for people to use in a long term and help repurposing discarded products with the same or different function.
The development reflects the BBC's strategy to deliver greater value for money for licence-fee payers by repurposing BBC Online products for a wide range of devices.
"If you go to a poor country and see how they solve problems by repurposing older products, it's super-innovative". The results also make sense in an (admittedly irritating) "older generation rags on newer generation" sort of way.
Konkle said he hopes to use the experience of "Safety Geeks" and offer Lumen Actus' 3-D services to outside companies for repurposing old products to 3-D.
But, as Spool explains, it's not a meme proper "rather it's a forced meme" and testament to "the power of re-contextualisation", wherein something – a logo, a print, an entire product – is taken, repurposed and reproduced, which in course changes its meaning and the message.
The circular economy refers to the idea that with the right design, consumer products can be made by repurposing resources already in existence, rather than extracting more from the natural environment. .
The problem, she suggested, is when the cycle ends with the production of a new product that comes with no intention of repurposing it multiple times.
However, the long term value from adapting discarded and undesirable products did not lie in redesigning and repurposing the artifacts to become usable and visually better, but in redesigning and reconstructing the perception of people towards these products (reflective level).
For scrubbing scum (a four-letter word) and hard-water stains, many consumers swear by products such as the Magic Eraser sponge, while others suggest repurposing dryer sheets (simply wet and scrub).
The pills didn't do much to combat depression, Dr. Segraves says, but Boehringer Ingelheim repurposed the product after women in depression studies reported experiencing increased sexual interest.
