Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop by Leafer Circular Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Meta, Strategic and Service Design Competition Category.
BronzeService· 2024
Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop
Client: Leafer Circular Design
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Service Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #157975The Design
About Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop
The Leakage Awareness workshop makes it possible for designers to work on bigger, deeper cases with clients. It provides a way to build internal stakeholder support, gather reluctantly disclosed situation info, receive pay for typically unpaid early design research, and ultimately visualize production flows for discussion. The workshop features a modular design for portability and easy extension. It also integrates with the C-BAT app to generate a material analysis report.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind the design is to facilitate the transition of businesses to circular models by identifying resource leaks and fostering stakeholder consensus. The inspiration came from nearly a decade of collaboration with long-term clients, revealing the need for a comprehensive method to visualize resource flows and engage stakeholders effectively.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The primary focus was to create a workshop that not only helps designers work on larger projects with clients but also builds internal solidarity and gathers vital resource information. The goal was to achieve a method that supports sustainable business improvements and enhances design impact.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Future plans include refining the workshop based on user feedback, expanding its reach, and integrating further technological advancements into the C-BAT app for enhanced material analysis capabilities.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Leakage Awareness workshop is a tool that makes it possible for designers to work on bigger, deeper cases with clients. It provides a way to build internal stakeholder support, gather reluctantly disclosed situation info, receive pay for typically unpaid early design research, and ultimately visualize production flows for discussion. The workshop features a modular design for portability and easy extension. It also integrates with the C-BAT app to generate a material analysis report.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The workshop is formatted into a series of modular A4 PDFs for easy printing and flexibility. Sheets can be stacked for as many production steps as needed. The workshop suggests facilitators to judge from participant interactions whether a single larger A2 or multiple A4 sheets works better.
The companion C-BAT app provides training content, and can generate a material analysis report from gathered workshop info. A planned upgrade to C-BAT would allow quick upload via OCR capture. - Tags
- workshop, consulting, stakeholder, consensus, design service, service design, manufacturer, leakage, resources, circular economy
- Production Technology
- Major personas involved during project communication were first mapped, and a topical survey of 50 SME manufacturers was conducted to understand their design expectations and willingness. The designs were iteratively adjusted through internal testing and 2 major rounds with target facilitator designers. The workshop was also run by a few long-term clients for feedback. This confirmed overall direction and design decisions were finetuned in line with real feedback.
- Design Challenge
- Compared to usual design, circular design requires deeper involvement into business and strategy, in order to resolve material and market issues. As such, a big challenge circular designers face is getting reluctant clients to share the resource info needed. The Leakage workshop addresses this by first suggesting NDAs and using feeling-based scales for sensitive details like material cost and waste disposal. During a trial run, the client said they felt comfortable sharing in that context.
- Inspiration
- After nearly a decade of working with long-term clients, two major hurdles were identified in their transition to circular business: finding resource leak and convincing stakeholders. A comprehensive method for visually exploring resource flows was needed, along with a means to gather stakeholders to create consensus. The Leakage workshop not only builds internal solidarity but also helps the designer deeply understand the clients’ situations and paves the way for more impactful design cases.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2023, and the alpha version launched in November 2023. The project was selected for showcase in 2024 by the Taiwan Design Research Institute.
- Operation Flow
- In the Leakage Awareness workshop, the designer is like a coach guiding the client’s team discussion. Once a main focal product is chosen, production steps are mapped out, with all resource input and output noted. Lastly, the team together identifies inefficiencies and opportunities. This step-by-step team huddle builds internal agreement on what can sustainably improve business, and provides clear targets for following design cases.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Leafer Circular Design, 2023.
Patent pending. - Team Members
- Victor Wu
Craig Bossley - Image Credits
- Image #1, Creator Victor Wu, Leakage Awareness Workshop with Stakeholders, 2024.
Image #2: Creator Victor Wu, Companion App for Situation Analysis, 2024.
Image #3: Creator Victor Wu, Presenting Workshop Overview, 2024.
Image #4: Creator Victor Wu, AI-Assisted Analysis Clarification, 2024.
Image #5: Creator Victor Wu, Prep with Leakage Report, 2024.
Video Credits: Creator Craig Bossley, Workshop Tutorial, 2023.
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