The circular economy as a framework for establishing more effective methods of collaboration in the design process

This paper establishes the need for new, more effective design processes for facilitating creativity, collaboration and integration in the design process. The current prevalent design process is not able to respond with the urgency, imagination and ambition required to meet the conflicting demands of rapid urbanisation, ageing infrastructure and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The circular economy is proposed as a framework for a new design process. The Circular Building is presented as a prototype project, exploring how a new design process could operate and identifying gaps in existing knowledge.