Stefan Diez: The Contract Is the Design
Stefan Diez: The Contract Is the Design
Most sustainability work starts after the drawing is finished. Stefan Diez argues the leverage sits earlier, in the contract. His Circular Design Contract is a proposal to tie a product’s value to use, durability and return rather than units shipped. It grows out of twenty years of products, from BOA for HAY to AYNO for Midgard, that tried to build repair and return into the design, and out of the realisation that products alone will not get us there. He brings TRIANGOLO, a system his studio has just fully reworked, as the first place the thinking gets applied.
Speakers
Stefan Diez
Stefan Diez is an industrial designer and founder of DIEZ OFFICE. He works from Italy and Germany with companies including HAY, Herman Miller, Midgard, Vibia and e15, aiming for circular products. He leads the Department of Industrial Design at Vienna's University of Applied Arts, rethinking design in a moving world.
Stefan Diez is an industrial designer and founder of DIEZ OFFICE. He works from Italy and Germany with companies including HAY, Herman Miller, Midgard, Vibia and e15, aiming for circular products. He leads the Department of Industrial Design at Vienna's University of Applied Arts, rethinking design in a moving world.
Tuesday 9 March 2027
9:55am – 10:50am
Shed 10, Queen’s Wharf, 89 Quay Street, Auckland
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