Sustainalize products with WMF
Everyday products quite often get forgotten when thinking about innovating our surroundings to establish a more sustainable future. With WMF you can try to establish new innovative designs and lifecycles for kitchen products like dishes, pans and co being perfectly sustainable.
To support you in your idea and team generation process, you have the opportunity to participate in one of our digital design thinking workshop - register here or find more information here.
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🏆 Prize 20,000 € prize pool prize pool in the Innovate2030 project + joint publication with all stakeholders + chance for further cooperation with WMF
Submission Template
For the elaboration of the use cases within the Innovate 2030 project, a common submission template is available. This template will help you to structure your ideas and approaches and to find answers to all relevant questions.
In addition to this submission template, you will find specific requirements and guiding questions for your use case in the "Guiding Questions" tab, which you need to consider when preparing your submission.
You can also complement your submission with prototypes, pitch decks, image and video materials, higher-level concepts, or specific use case-related instruments – simply submit these documents along with the submission template via our platform.
The goal is that through this approach (submission template, guiding questions and optional documents), solutions within the overall project can cover a broad spectrum: From concrete digital product ideas to higher-level visions.
Guiding questions
Analysis: What sustainability issues have been encountered with non-electronic kitchen devices to date?
- What needs can be derived from this?
- How can these be used as a starting point for optimization in terms of quality and sustainability?
Product Design: How will the perfectly sustainable and high quality non-electrical WMF product of the future look like? How can we make it as sustainable as possible along its whole lifecycle?
- Which aspects are relevant for a high quality and sustainable non-electrical WMF product?
- What kind of materials should be used? Which shouldn´t be used anymore? Why?
- Can you design a prototype?
Maintenance/disposal/recycling: How do maintenance/disposal/recycling concepts look like in the digital future? How can we already think aspects like maintenance/disposal/recycling while designing the product?
- What details/ features/ designs are relevant for a maintenance/disposal/recycle concept for dishes, pots, pans, …?
- How can we use these concepts in the process of designing products? Can you define sustainable standards for material usage, its assembly, usage, maintenance, disposal or recycling that can be used during the design process already?
Digitalization and the Internet of Things: How can advantages of the digitization and the upcoming Internet of Things era be used for the good?
- How can the recent developments be relevant for more sustainable non-electrical kitchen devises? Can we include dishes, pots, pans, … in the upcoming Internet of Thing?
- Having collected the data: How can it be used to make these products more sustainable over its whole lifecycle?
- What data can be relevant for future maintenance/disposal/recycle concept looking at these products? How could this data be tracked?
Packaging: What will sustainable packaging look like in the future?
- What influence does product packaging have on the sustainability of products?
- What role does digitalisation play in connection with the sustainable packaging of the future?