Sustainable product

Packaging

Packaging for e-commerce


Systemic design and sustainable paper packaging for e-commerce

Challenge

The project combines research and teaching to define future scenarios for e-commerce and develop new sustainable packaging concepts, adopting a Systemic Design approach.

Results

The project involved the students of the design courses of the Politecnico di Torino, through two challenges aimed at designing the new system and packaging models for e-commerce. Meanwhile, the research team analyzed the current and future e-commerce scenarios to define the future sustainable development trends of this industry.


General Info

Typology:
Commercial research project (public institution), national
Partner:
Consorzio COMIECO
Scientific supervisor:
Silvia Barbero
Project team:
Eleonora Fiore, Agnese Pallaro, Amina Pereno

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Timeline

March 2015

Project start

July 2017

Results of the first packaging challenge

on e-commerce logistics systems

February 2018

Results of the second packaging challenge

related to various e-commerce logistics systems

July 2018

Project end


Publications

Pereno, A., & Barbero, S. (2019). The sustainability of packaging for e-commerce: from system to product. In: Proceedings of 3rd LeNS World Distributed Conference 2019 “Designing sustainability for all” (pp. 301-307), Bangalore, India. ISBN: 978-88- 95651-26-2

Barbero, S., & Pereno, A. (2020). Packaging Design in the Digital Age. A systemic approach to e-commerce. Milano, Italy: FrancoAngeli. ISBN: 978-88- 35111-14-6

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