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Sustainable 3D Printing: Design Opportunities and Research Perspectives

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Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping (AHFE 2019)

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Abstract

As 3D Printing process, technologies and tools are rapidly becoming pervasive and used both in industrial and in non-industrial contexts, the risk to have new unsustainable printing processes and production’s behaviours is high and, potentially, can led to the increasing of environmental emergency (unsustainable growth). On the other hand, Design for Sustainability works, since late 80’s, on the mitigation of production’s environmental foot-print and, recently, on the development of socio-technical systems and distributed hybrid solutions empowering both environmental aspects and socio-economic ones. This paper investigates the new concept of Sustainable 3D Printing using recent Design for Sustainability’s research theories and design approaches, in order to evaluate, and later describes, promising design opportunities and research perspectives that can be used and taken into account, simultaneously, by designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers to support the societal transition toward sustainable ways of design, production and consumption.

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    This list shows only main evidence-based advances for sustainable-oriented 3D Printing.

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    The term ‘designer’ is here used in its general meaning: as someone able to ideate and realize a new solution, or a solution significantly better than existing ones.

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Acknowledgements

This paper shows the first relevant results of a 2018 ongoing research project conducted by authors on the experimentation of Design for Sustainability in 3D Printing domain. While all authors have contributed equally in the development of results here presented, the writing of various paragraphs is attributed to: Emilio Rossi (4 Results), Massimo Di Nicolantonio (3 Methodology), Paola Barcarolo (1 Introduction) and Jessica Lagatta (Abstract and 2 Aims). Moreover, Emilio Rossi and Massimo Di Nicolantonio contributed equally for the writing of paragraph 5 (Conclusions).

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  1. Emilio Rossi Design Consulting, Via Venezia 4, 66026, Ortona (CH), Italy

    Emilio Rossi

  2. Department of Architecture, University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127, Pescara (PE), Italy

    Emilio Rossi, Massimo Di Nicolantonio & Jessica Lagatta

  3. Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Via Delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine (UD), Italy

    Paola Barcarolo

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Rossi, E., Di Nicolantonio, M., Barcarolo, P., Lagatta, J. (2020). Sustainable 3D Printing: Design Opportunities and Research Perspectives. In: Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Alexander, T. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20216-3_1

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