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.Category Archives: multifunctionality
Can I clean sweet potatoes in this washing machine?
Happy New Year! Let’s launch the year with a post that threads together some of the topics we’ve been looking at — big, smart, and open data alongside multifunctionality. This is the story of Chinese appliance maker Haier. The company used “small data” obtained from its service engineers to find out that many rural clothes… Continue Reading
light-bulb flashlights, chair-helmuts—multifunctional products
In this post we return to the theme of multi-functionality as a technique for sustainable design. I’ve looked at this idea of doing more with less before in terms of products that behave as structures (and vice versa) and in terms of other approaches to getting more function out of our designs. Today we’ve got… Continue Reading
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