Systemic Design of a Productive Chain: Reusing Coffee Waste as an Input to Agricultural Production

摘要

With the increasing complexity of production in today's economy, it has become fundamentally important to free ourselves fromrnfocusing solely on individual products and their life cycles. In the design sphere, we must expand our attention and apply our skills to understanding the many connections that are spawned by the production process.rnWe need to regain the cultural knowledge and experience that allows us to define and design production flows that can traverse different systems in a continuous process that decreases the ecological footprint of products while increasing income throughout the economy. Such a systemic approach can design flows of material and energy in a way that enhances productive processes and creates a new economic model based on open industrial cycles.