Inline with CII’s efforts over the years, in shaping India's development journey and transforming Indian Industry's engagement in national development. CII verticals are working closely with Government on policy issues, interfacing with thought leaders, and enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and business opportunities for industry through a range of specialized services and strategic global linkages. It also provides a platform for consensus-building and networking on key issues

CII has been organizing the CII-NID Design Summit since 2001 with National Institute of Design (NID). The summit features best of the Indian and international design thinkers, practitioners and design users. It is an international event that brings together discerning audiences and eminent speakers to deliberate on the emerging aspects of design. The CII-NID Design Summit has been rechristened as India Design Summit to reflect the broader sphere of design influence and to celebrate design along with its promotion.

Date & Venue

Date : 14 December, 2023

Venue : Hotel The Lalit, New Delhi

SUMMIT THEME

Design from Handicraft to Spacecraft

Circular design essentially encompasses the improvements in material selection and product design (standardization and modularization of components, purer material flows, and design for easier disassembly). A good circular design enables a product to have multiple life cycles, with minimal loss of value, quality and energy. In addition to this, a good circular design uses materials and components that can be reclaimed for reuse. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing processes and products without waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Four pillars of the Circular Economy are Collaboration, Design, Reverse Logistics and Business Models.

Old industrial models of “take, make, dispose” are giving way to new thinking about the circular economy. This profound shift brings opportunities for organizations to create value and safeguard the environment by improving their management of resources, eliminating waste through better design, and maximizing the recycling of products, components, and materials in use.

Supporting government, industries, and companies in integrating circular-economy principles into their strategies will eventually help and support sustainable growth. For governments, implementing circular approaches can boost employment and citizens’ well-being, reduce resource dependencies, and limit environmental impacts. For businesses, reimagining products, packaging, services, and experiences can bring benefits to makers and users as well as the wider world.

By changing the thinking from a linear economic model to a circular one, built environment professionals can facilitate connecting waste products and processes in the city. Circular economy results in local economic, social and environmental benefits. Whether it is designing better, more circular neighbourhoods, incorporating circular technology and processes into our projects, or influencing the supply chain to bend an existing linear economy to make it circular, we are uniquely placed to make substantial long-term impacts upon our cities.

For design professionals, circular design implies a change of perspective from thinking linearly to cyclical way. In the past, designers have often not been concerned with what happens to a product at the end of its life cycle. But it is no longer enough to simply replace the materials used in a product for ones that are more recyclable - designers now have to think about the entire life cycle of a product, getting information from all partners to help them design a truly circular product.

Adopting design thinking to deliver utility for consumers and companies based on products, services, and experiences that are more suitable for the purpose and come with a smaller end-to-end resource footprint.

As in the near future, all the products will eventually have to be returned to the manufacturer for a second life, it will call for the so-called reverse logistics. In addition, a circular design will often result in a product that may not have the lowest purchase value, but that does achieve the lowest costs across its life span promising direct benefit for clients. But this would also effect a significant change in the business model with upward revision in the investment. This would eventually lead a complete shift in the system involving everyone and everything from businesses to governments, and individuals; our cities, our products, and our jobs.

SPEAKERS 2023