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  • Open Access
61 Citations
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21 Pages

11 August 2020

“Future Design,” a new movement among Japanese researchers and stakeholders, asks the following question: What types of social systems are necessary if we are to leave future generations sustainable environments and societies? Looking at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,585 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2020

Many serious problems occur due to conflicts between the interests of the present generation and the welfare of future generations, and thus, the actions of the preset generation may be a consequence of presentism. Drawing on the theoretical framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,557 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Future Design Approach to Ageing Based on the Double Diamond Model

  • Xiaochun Wang,
  • Zihan Huang,
  • Tongfei Xu,
  • Yuting Li and
  • Xiangang Qin

6 August 2023

As the global trend of aging continues to intensify, there will inevitably be more complex and diverse aging-related problems. Designers have a responsibility to explore the possible outcomes of the future and solve the ageing-related problems that w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,652 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2020

There are two approaches to future planning: backcasting and scenario planning. While some studies have attempted to relate and combine these two approaches, a future design (FD) approach has recently been advocated and researched. Given this state o...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,391 Views
24 Pages

25 September 2019

Our inner, invisible dimension consisting of our values, mental models and worldviews, has been identified as a significant leverage point for transformational change, as it brings to life our actions. Accordingly, the inner dimension of sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,073 Views
17 Pages

10 June 2020

A scenario approach is often used to envision sustainable futures. Several important scenario design factors are identified in the literature, which include the demonstration of deliberation and the participation of stakeholders; however, specific me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,650 Views
39 Pages

16 June 2020

Product-Service Systems (PSS), if properly designed and implemented, represent a promising approach to sustainability. However, there is a number of organisational, cultural and regulatory barriers that hinder the widespread PSS implementation. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,412 Views
25 Pages

Impact of Future Design on Workshop Participants’ Time Preferences

  • Naoko Nishimura,
  • Nobuhiro Inoue,
  • Hiroaki Masuhara and
  • Tadahiko Musha

21 September 2020

In this paper, we examine the impact of Future Design (FD) on public workshops organized in Matsumoto city, Japan, for its city hall renovation plan. We ran an FD workshop and an ordinary workshop as a control, and the participants were randomly assi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,543 Views
22 Pages

The current COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the challenges facing human society. The public is increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. To enhance human health and well-being, user expectatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
21,850 Views
14 Pages

17 February 2021

This article presents a Finnish social design study that was targeted at future Generation Z consumers. The main objective was to gain understanding of the target group’s attitudes, routines and skills relating to food consumption, diets and food was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,019 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2019

Happiness, generativity and social preferences are pivotal factors for the betterment and sustainability of societies. However, little is known about the relationships among happiness, generativity and social preferences, along with sociodemographic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,082 Views
32 Pages

25 April 2024

From powering our homes to driving our economies, energy lies at the heart of humanity’s complex challenges in the modern era. This paper reviews the evolution of smart energy systems, examining their technological advancements and societal imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
18,741 Views
14 Pages

4 December 2023

In an age where computing capabilities are expanding at a breathtaking pace, the advent of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) technology presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges to the future of design. It is crucial for desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,683 Views
32 Pages

16 September 2014

Under the label “future-proofing”, this paper examines the temporal component of sustainable construction as an unexplored, yet fundamental ingredient in the delivery of low-energy domestic buildings. The overarching aim is to explore the integratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,677 Views
26 Pages

Microalgae as Future Superfoods: Fostering Adoption through Practice-Based Design Research

  • Maurizio Vrenna,
  • Pier Paolo Peruccio,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Fang Zhong and
  • Yuchi Sun

6 March 2021

Consumers’ eating habits are gradually changing. In the next few decades, this shift will not be solely dictated by individuals’ decisions but by the need to feed an ever-increasing population in the face of global resources’ impoverishment. Novel su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,171 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2023

Analyses of disciplines encompassing futures studies reveal a prevailing tendency to perceive time as a linear sequence of projections. However, this perspective is not applicable to the current context of social transformation in the age of globaliz...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,350 Views
12 Pages

17 January 2023

Urban systems include complex interactions and interdependencies with adjoining landscapes and regions. The pressures of change are complex, constant, and increasing. Declining biodiversity, ecosystem function, social institutions, and climate change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,504 Views
22 Pages

Research-by-Design in Complex Systems: Reflections on Approaches Used to Reimagine Environmentally Sustainable, High-Welfare Poultry Housing Futures

  • Emma Campbell,
  • Greg Keeffe,
  • Seán Cullen,
  • Anne Richmond,
  • Stephen Beagan,
  • Ursula Lavery,
  • Brendan McKenna and
  • Steven Lester

27 March 2023

Despite projected global rises in chicken consumption, growing environmental and welfare challenges threaten the future of commercial poultry production. Though some of these challenges, such as biosecurity, sourcing, pollution, and waste, have been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,891 Views
17 Pages

17 April 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) image tools hold the promise of revolutionizing a designer’s creative process. The increasing supply of this type of tool leads us to consider whether they suit future design professionals. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,807 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2018

Re-distributed manufacturing presents a number of opportunities and challenges for New Product Development in a future Circular Economy. It has been argued that small-scale, flexible and localised production systems will reduce resource consumption,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,687 Views
24 Pages

20 March 2020

Urban mobility is facing an increased long-term uncertainty and complexity generated by accelerated technological development. These challenges require radical advancement in planning processes and methods, which could enable breaking out of path dep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,652 Views
23 Pages

Uncertainty Quantification of Future Design Rainfall Depths in Korea

  • Kyungmin Kim,
  • Jeonghyeon Choi,
  • Okjeong Lee,
  • Dong-Hyun Cha and
  • Sangdan Kim

25 December 2019

One of the most common ways to investigate changes in future rainfall extremes is to use future rainfall data simulated by climate models with climate change scenarios. However, the projected future design rainfall intensity varies greatly depending...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,699 Views
20 Pages

The Future of City Squares: Robotics in the Urban Design of Tomorrow

  • Karolina Dąbrowska-Żółtak,
  • Jerzy Wojtowicz and
  • Stefan Wrona

12 July 2022

Technological development generates social changes while providing new tools that can be implemented in the fields of architecture and urban design. It creates the need to enrich architects’ competencies with knowledge and experience, enabling...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
15,265 Views
32 Pages

29 June 2023

Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) provides a necessary framework for using novel additive manufacturing (AM) technologies for engineering innovations. Recent AM advances include shaping nickel-based superalloys for lightweight aerospace applic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,770 Views
28 Pages

Design of Soft Robots: A Review of Methods and Future Opportunities for Research

  • Behzad Hasanshahi,
  • Lin Cao,
  • Ki-Young Song and
  • Wenjun Zhang

1 August 2024

Soft robots present resilient and adaptable systems characterized by deformable bodies inspired by biological systems. In this paper, we comprehensively review existing design methods for soft robots. One unique feature of our review is that we first...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,856 Views
34 Pages

An Overview of FIR Filter Design in Future Multicarrier Communication Systems

  • Lei Jiang,
  • Haijian Zhang,
  • Shuai Cheng,
  • Hengwei Lv and
  • Pandong Li

Future wireless communication systems are facing with many challenges due to their complexity and diversification. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in 4G cannot meet the requirements in future scenarios, thus alternative multicarrier...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,505 Views
15 Pages

Infrastructure Decommissioning: A Brief Report on Embracing Future Generations’ Perspectives to Avoid Intergenerational Procrastination

  • Yoshinori Nakagawa,
  • Masami Mori,
  • Masahiko Yamada,
  • Yuko Hata,
  • Takayuki Sugimoto and
  • Tatsuyoshi Saijo

11 December 2024

Infrastructure decommissioning refers to retiring infrastructure at the end of its useful life. Since all types of tangible infrastructure have a finite lifespan, the challenges of decommissioning are as significant as those of its creation. Despite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
18,534 Views
12 Pages

27 January 2014

Academic staff in Higher Education (HE) need to transform their teaching practices to support more future-orientated, digital, student-centered learning. Promoting, enabling and implementing these changes urgently requires acceptable, meaningful and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,078 Views
16 Pages

Comparison of Future Design Rainfall with Current Design Rainfall: A Case Study in New South Wales, Australia

  • Iqbal Hossain,
  • Monzur Imteaz,
  • Shirley Gato-Trinidad and
  • Abdullah Gokhan Yilmaz

21 June 2024

Climate change impacts have the potential to alter the design rainfall estimates around the world. Decreasing trends in the summer and winter rainfall in New South Wales (NSW), Australia have already been observed due to climate variability and chang...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,688 Views
19 Pages

The ESSnuSB Design Study: Overview and Future Prospects

  • A. Alekou,
  • E. Baussan,
  • A. K. Bhattacharyya,
  • N. Blaskovic Kraljevic,
  • M. Blennow,
  • M. Bogomilov,
  • B. Bolling,
  • E. Bouquerel,
  • F. Bramati and
  • Y. Zou
  • + 74 authors

ESSnuSB is a design study for an experiment to measure the CP violation in the leptonic sector at the second neutrino oscillation maximum using a neutrino beam driven by the uniquely powerful ESS linear accelerator. The reduced impact of systematic e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,858 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2024

Organizational change, influenced by such factors as economics, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and users’ wellbeing, is essential for organizational effectiveness, productivity, and sustainability. Thus, there has been a ca...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,230 Views
18 Pages

Managing Circular Business Model Uncertainties with Future Adaptive Design

  • Thomas Nyström,
  • Katherine A. Whalen,
  • Derek Diener,
  • Marcel den Hollander and
  • Robert H. W. Boyer

16 September 2021

Designing products that can adapt to changes over time is crucial for managing product-related business risks in circular business models. However, there is limited circular economy research on how product adaptivity can contribute to more circular p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,541 Views
17 Pages

An Emotional Design Model for Future Smart Product Based on Grounded Theory

  • Chiju Chao,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Hongfei Wu,
  • Wenxuan Wu,
  • Zhijie Yi,
  • Liang Xu and
  • Zhiyong Fu

23 July 2023

Recently, smart products have not only demonstrated more functionality and technical capabilities but have also shown a trend towards emotional expression. Emotional design plays a crucial role in smart products as it not only influences users’...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
10,083 Views
21 Pages

Educators and course designers may face great hurdles when designing courses if they include an online setting. Instructional design (ID) has played a vital role as a change agent in facilitating the pedagogical and technological transformation of ed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,265 Views
24 Pages

25 July 2019

Company interest and research in the circular economy and remanufacturing have increased as a means of reducing negative environmental impacts. Remanufacturing is an industrial process whereby used products are returned to a state of like-new. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,766 Views
34 Pages

Improving the UX for Users of Automated Shuttle Buses in Public Transport: Investigating Aspects of Exterior Communication and Interior Design

  • Andreas Riener,
  • Dominik Schlackl,
  • Julia Malsam,
  • Josef Huber,
  • Benjamin Homm,
  • Marion Kaczmar,
  • Iris Kleitsch,
  • Alina Megos,
  • Eunji Park and
  • Esha Anees
  • + 2 authors

As a precursor to future public transportation, automated shuttle buses can already be experienced in some test regions, but the general public still has reservations and may not yet be ready for this change. For example, the fact that such vehicles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,361 Views
14 Pages

Systemic Design Strategies for Shaping the Future of Automated Shuttle Buses

  • Ming Yan,
  • Peng Lu,
  • Venanzio Arquilla,
  • Fausto Brevi,
  • Lucia Rampino and
  • Giandomenico Caruso

27 October 2023

Automated shuttle buses entail adopting new technologies and modifying users’ practices, cultural and symbolic meanings, policies, and markets. This results in a paradigmatic transition for a typical sociotechnical system: the transport system....

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
17,002 Views
26 Pages

Low Power Design for Future Wearable and Implantable Devices

  • Katrine Lundager,
  • Behzad Zeinali,
  • Mohammad Tohidi,
  • Jens K. Madsen and
  • Farshad Moradi

With the fast progress in miniaturization of sensors and advances in micromachinery systems, a gate has been opened to the researchers to develop extremely small wearable/implantable microsystems for different applications. However, these devices are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,219 Views
14 Pages

31 July 2019

The development of robot technology provides many possibilities for the life support of the elderly. This study explored the acceptability of robots to assist the elderly from the perspective of future designers. A quantitative questionnaire (58 copi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
933 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2025

Designers working towards social change have often focused on designing discrete solutions to social problems, rather than working within the long-term world-making practices of movements. This paper examines the potential of a more embedded design p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,801 Views
12 Pages

A Generic Approach to Analyze the Impact of a Future Aircraft Design on the Boarding Process

  • Bekir Yildiz,
  • Peter Förster,
  • Thomas Feuerle,
  • Peter Hecker,
  • Stefan Bugow and
  • Stefan Helber

30 January 2018

The turnaround process constitutes an important part of the air transportation system. Airports often represent bottlenecks in air traffic management (ATM), thus operations related to the preparation of the aircraft for the next flight leg have to be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,389 Views
11 Pages

Trial Design in Critical Care Nutrition: The Past, Present and Future

  • Lee-anne S. Chapple,
  • Emma J. Ridley and
  • Marianne J. Chapman

30 November 2020

The specialty of nutrition in critical care is relatively modern, and accordingly, trial design has progressed over recent decades. In the past, small observational and physiological studies evolved to become small single-centre comparative trials, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,652 Views
18 Pages

23 September 2022

This study adopted design fiction and co-design as the two main methodological approaches for designers and artists to explore the complex relationships and intersections of futuristic heritage experience and engagement. A literature-based seminar an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,854 Views
15 Pages

Design Rainfall Change of Rainwater Source Control Facility to Meet Future Scenarios in Beijing

  • Xuerao Wang,
  • Zhiyong Zhao,
  • Zhiming Zhang,
  • Meifang Ren and
  • Thomas Sagris

Rainwater source control facilities are essential to sponge city construction in China. Their size is determined based on historical rainfall data. However, with global warming and rapid urban development, rainfall characteristics have also changed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,583 Views
12 Pages

17 September 2015

Evolution produces genuine novelty in morphology through the selection of competing designs as phenotypes. When applied to human creativity, the evolutionary paradigm can provide insight into the ways that our technology and its design are modified t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,461 Views
20 Pages

29 May 2024

The unprecedented development of artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible for computers to imitate and surpass human intelligence (HI). Hybrid intelligence is the result of the co-evolution of AI and HI and has huge application potential in pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
15,919 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2012

Urban planning for a renewable energy future requires the collaboration of different disciplines both in research and practice. In the present article, the planning of a renewable energy future is approached from a designer’s perspective. A framework...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,424 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2022

With the continuous improvement of the imaging quality requirement of the space optical system, the large-aperture mirror becomes the research focus. However, the increase of the aperture will increase the whole weight which results in high launch co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,966 Views
5 Pages

Measurement of physics processes at new energy frontier experiments requires excellent spatial, time, and energy resolutions to resolve the structure of collimated high-energy jets. In a future Muon Collider, beam-induced backgrounds (BIB) represent...

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