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Transcripts of co-creation sessions with design agencies. Underlying data for the article: Safe and sustainable by design: co-creating a design method for dealing with harmful substances in product design

DOI:10.4121/3a718f3f-0830-41f5-bb8d-4f808597ac3a.v1
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DOI: 10.4121/3a718f3f-0830-41f5-bb8d-4f808597ac3a

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Bolaños Arriola, Julieta (2025): Transcripts of co-creation sessions with design agencies. Underlying data for the article: Safe and sustainable by design: co-creating a design method for dealing with harmful substances in product design. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/3a718f3f-0830-41f5-bb8d-4f808597ac3a.v1
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Dataset

This dataset corresponds to the research aim: To co-create a Design for Substance Safety (DSS) method with and for design professionals. The DSS Method allows product designers to mitigate the risks generated by hazardous substances throughout the lifecycle of products. Through the sessions, we identified procedural and functional requirements, contextual factors influencing the method's successful application, and actionable insights to produce and refine the new method framework. The resulting DSS Method provides a systematic, lifecycle-oriented approach for addressing SoC across various design scenarios.

We conducted two co-creation sessions with three groups of professional designers (six sessions in total) during the months of November and December 2023. Each of the three groups consisted of 2-3 professional designers (total of 6-8 people). The participants were experienced designers (>3 years) working at design agencies in the Netherlands. Experience with circular economy or sustainability was not a requirement. All participants signed an informed consent form, and the co-creation sessions were conducted following the protocols of human research ethics from Delft University of Technology. We followed well-established procedures for defining and conducting the co-creation sessions.

The data was analysed as follows:

1. We used a deductive approach to analyse the transcripts applying the pre-defined codes to quotes from the participants. This resulted in a collection of quotes for each of the codes. For this coding exercise we used the Atlas.ti software.

2. After the codes were applied, we did a second coding exercise to identify sub-codes in each code cluster. This resulted in sets of sub-coded quotes, per code cluster. This exercise was also done using the Atlas.ti software. All coding exercises were performed separately by two researchers to later compare and validate results.

3. Finally, we synthesized the quotes under each sub-code by analyzing and grouping them based on similarities. These were subsequently reinterpreted into recommendations and requests from the participants. Using these insights, we reformulated the sets of quotes into requirements for the development of the new version of the method.

History

  • 2025-03-11 first online, published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

.docx

Organizations

TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Department of Sustainable Design Engineering, Design for Sustainability

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