Press Release
Leafer Circular Design Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop in Meta, Strategic and Service Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Leafer Circular Design of Leafer for meta, strategic and service design
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop by Leafer Circular Design of Leafer has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Meta, Strategic and Service Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop
The Leakage Awareness workshop makes it possible for designers to work on bigger, deeper cases with clients. It provides a way to build internal stakeholder support, gather reluctantly disclosed situation info, receive pay for typically unpaid early design research, and ultimately visualize production flows for discussion. The workshop features a modular design for portability and easy extension. It also integrates with the C-BAT app to generate a material analysis report.
About Leafer Circular Design
Leafer Circular Design is a Taiwan-based design and consulting firm. With a focus on circular economy, they assist clients in creating profitable and sustainable solutions. They provide strategy consulting, resource optimization, and design of user-centered products and services. Leafer strives to increase value creation with a positive influence on the environment and society. They have already helped countless small and medium-sized enterprises become circular businesses.
About Leafer
Leafer is a design firm based in Taiwan. They help businesses transform processes, map opportunities, and communicate. Through circular design, they create solutions that benefit both businesses and the environment.
Award Record
With this recognition, Leafer Circular Design of Leafer is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Meta, Strategic and Service Design Award
The A' Service Design Award is an international design competition recognizing excellence in service designs by consultancy companies and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to service designers, strategic design consultants, business designers and UX/UI designers from all countries. Typical entries include design strategy, design management, service design, franchising design, strategic design and service blueprints. The awarded service designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/service
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/157975
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/157975
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!157975
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/349140
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://leaferdesign.com/service/workshops#leakage
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Leakage Awareness Consulting Workshop
- Function
- Consulting Workshop
- Category
- Meta, Strategic and Service Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Business and Design Industry
- Colors
- Tan, Lavender, Gainsboro, Wheat and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Leafer Circular Design
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Brand
- Leafer
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #157975
Credits
- Team
- Victor Wu and Craig Bossley
- Image Credits
- Image #1, Creator Victor Wu, Leakage Awareness Workshop with Stakeholders, 2024.; Creator Victor Wu, Companion App for Situation Analysis, 2024.; Creator Victor Wu, Presenting Workshop Overview, 2024.; Creator Victor Wu, AI-Assisted Analysis Clarification, 2024.; Creator Victor Wu, Prep with Leakage Report, 2024. Video Credits: Creator Craig Bossley, Workshop Tutorial, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Leakage Awareness workshop is a tool that makes it possible for designers to work on bigger, deeper cases with clients. It provides a way to build internal stakeholder support, gather reluctantly disclosed situation info, receive pay for typically unpaid early design research, and ultimately visualize production flows for discussion. The workshop features a modular design for portability and easy extension. It also integrates with the C-BAT app to generate a material analysis report.
- Inspiration
- After nearly a decade of working with long-term clients, two major hurdles were identified in their transition to circular business: finding resource leak and convincing stakeholders. A comprehensive method for visually exploring resource flows was needed, along with a means to gather stakeholders to create consensus. The Leakage workshop not only builds internal solidarity but also helps the designer deeply understand the clients’ situations and paves the way for more impactful design cases.
- Challenge
- Compared to usual design, circular design requires deeper involvement into business and strategy, in order to resolve material and market issues. As such, a big challenge circular designers face is getting reluctant clients to share the resource info needed. The Leakage workshop addresses this by first suggesting NDAs and using feeling-based scales for sensitive details like material cost and waste disposal. During a trial run, the client said they felt comfortable sharing in that context.
- Realization and Technology
- Major personas involved during project communication were first mapped, and a topical survey of 50 SME manufacturers was conducted to understand their design expectations and willingness. The designs were iteratively adjusted through internal testing and 2 major rounds with target facilitator designers. The workshop was also run by a few long-term clients for feedback. This confirmed overall direction and design decisions were finetuned in line with real feedback.
- Operation and Interaction
- In the Leakage Awareness workshop, the designer is like a coach guiding the client’s team discussion. Once a main focal product is chosen, production steps are mapped out, with all resource input and output noted. Lastly, the team together identifies inefficiencies and opportunities. This step-by-step team huddle builds internal agreement on what can sustainably improve business, and provides clear targets for following design cases.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2023, and the alpha version launched in November 2023. The project was selected for showcase in 2024 by the Taiwan Design Research Institute.
- Specifications
- The workshop is formatted into a series of modular A4 PDFs for easy printing and flexibility. Sheets can be stacked for as many production steps as needed. The workshop suggests facilitators to judge from participant interactions whether a single larger A2 or multiple A4 sheets works better. The companion C-BAT app provides training content, and can generate a material analysis report from gathered workshop info. A planned upgrade to C-BAT would allow quick upload via OCR capture.
- Keywords
- workshop, consulting, stakeholder, consensus, design service, service design, manufacturer, leakage, resources, circular economy
