Sustainable design strategy through upcycling waste wood material and creating a digital marketplace for micro crafters community

Abstract

Design should not only improve human life, but also should have a share sustainable movement through circular economy concept that are restorative and regenerative by design to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value. Not only designing environmentally sustainable interior products, but a marketing tool is also proposed to bridge the gap between these micro crafters and a wider market. The study aims to create integrated concepts that encourage circular economy through designing environmentally sustainable interior products and providing a digital marketplace as means for micro crafters to market their products in order to bridge the gap between micro crafters. Not only to give sustainable and economic impact, but this study will also have social impact especially for the micro crafters in Jepara with their generations of crafters. The result of this study is prototypes of three sustainable interior products made of waste wood and a digital marketplace concept to help market the products.