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Circularity - Team 1
Scaling Circular Solutions in Zurich
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Circularity - Team 2
Scaling Circular Solutions in Zurich
GenAI - Team 1
GenAI for Earth: Innovating for Impact and Efficiency
Helbling - Team 1
Radical visions for future Consumer Products: Initial Question. How might we design consumer products that people love, keep, repair, and pass on – while minimizing their environmental footprint? Background & Current Situation Consumer products such as coffee machines, kitchen appliances, or small household devices are often designed for short lifecycles. Driven by cost pressure and fast-changing trends, many of these products are built with limited durability, low repairability, and materials that are difficult to recycle. As a result, they are frequently discarded after a relatively short period of use, contributing significantly to waste and CO₂ emissions. At the same time, affordable and convenient products remain highly attractive to consumers. This creates a key challenge: how to reconcile sustainability, durability, and circularity with cost and user expectations.
Home - Community
Lowering your carbon impact using smart home technologies might be rewarding. But what if we started optimizing on a community level rather than an individual level. We are applying the principles of regenerative communities to the topic of electricity production. What is the difference of organizing electricity production in a community of 50 houses rather than everybody on his own. We created a simulation of both scenarios. Is uses 4 different personas and AI generated consumption/reduction data. Comparing the two scenarios we see a community driven way to optimize is both cheaper and more effective due to Shared Battery Usage, EV Load Balancing, Virtual Net Metering, V2G and Bulk Purchasing.
Smart Home - Smart Green Key
👋 Meet Challenge 1 - Smart Homes for All 💡 🏡 In partnership with ecoinvent How might we design a digital tool that helps homeowners or installers quickly visualize the carbon 'break-even' point of a smart home installation? The smart home market is booming, driven by the promise of convenience, security, and energy efficiency. Homeowners and installers are increasingly adopting IoT devices like smart thermostats, automated lighting, and energy monitors to reduce their energy bills and environmental footprint. However, every smart device comes with its own "carbon debt"—the emissions generated during raw material extraction, manufacturing, and global shipping. Currently, the ecosystem is focused primarily on operational efficiency (saving electricity today) while often ignoring embodied carbon (the environmental cost of the hardware).