About

The Sustainable Design SIG was established in 2001 by Professor Tim C. McAloone, as the first Special Interest Group in the Design Society. Since then, the SIG has been active in the expansion of a network with people interested in Sustainable Design, from academia and industry. 

Our main focus areas are:

• Discussion of sustainable design methods, tools and related approaches, to ensure high quality research that builds on previous results
• Linking together the scientific research results in the field of sustainable design from the SIG's active universities and research centres, and preparing them for implementation in industry
• Actual implementation of Sustainable Design tools, methods and thinking patterns into industrial companies.

Currently, the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Design SIG is composed of five people:

	Sophie Hallstedt Full Professor Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (SIG chair)
	Yuri Borgianni Associate Professor Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (SIG co-chair)
	Jeremy Faludi Assistant Professor TU Delft, The Netherlands
	Tatiana Reyes Assistant Professor University of Technology of Troyes, France
	Els Du Bois Assistant Professor University of Antwerp, Belgium