Future Factory supports East Midlands’ businesses in adopting or developing new products, services and business practices that ‘design out’ unnecessary or unsustainable materials and processing, and ‘design in’ features such as environmentally neutral technologies and materials, recyclability or sensitive disposal.
EDC were contracted to develop and deliver a formative evaluation of this programme, which is currently being undertaken.
The project is ongoing but it builds on an evaluation framework developed by EDC for regional ecodesign programmes.
This formative evaluation will strengthen or improve the Future Factory programme by examining the process of the intervention as it is happening. Formative evaluation is a change oriented evaluation approach and differs from summative evaluation in that it aims to, amongst other things, assess:
I gave this presentation last week at Orangebox to update them on my PhD research progress, which they support. It proposes a framework for formalising material selection strategies.
