ELEGY - A SUSTIANABLE SPEAKER
(2020) In Diploma work IDEL01 20201Industrial Design
- Abstract
- I got the opportunity to do this Bachelor project together with the consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen. They gave me a task to design a sustainable Bluetooth speaker. After having many interviews with different experts, within Bang & Olufsen, and reading multiple pieces of literature concerning ecological design, I could define the term sustainability. I used my findings as a base for the project, and I focused on designing a speaker for a circular system.
In my process, I made use of sketches and paper models to visualize my concept. During this time, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Sweden, which stopped me from making a physical prototype. Instead, I made the final model in 3D. The result is a portable Bluetooth speaker, which is... (More) - I got the opportunity to do this Bachelor project together with the consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen. They gave me a task to design a sustainable Bluetooth speaker. After having many interviews with different experts, within Bang & Olufsen, and reading multiple pieces of literature concerning ecological design, I could define the term sustainability. I used my findings as a base for the project, and I focused on designing a speaker for a circular system.
In my process, I made use of sketches and paper models to visualize my concept. During this time, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Sweden, which stopped me from making a physical prototype. Instead, I made the final model in 3D. The result is a portable Bluetooth speaker, which is easy to disassemble and has a changeable expression. Because of this, the speaker is easily repaired, maintained, and updated, which will increase its lifetime. I call it Elegy.
Besides, designing a speaker, I made a concept of a circular business model for the product. The system includes an accessible repair and update service and a recycling center. The idea of the system is to reuse materials and parts from old and broken Bang & Olufsen speakers and thereby closing the loop. (Less)
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- author
- Blomgren, Matilda
- supervisor
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- Jasjit Singh LU
- Anna Persson LU
- Charlotte Sjödell LU
- organization
- course
- IDEL01 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- publication/series
- Diploma work
- report number
- LUT-DVIDE/ EX--20/50473-SE
- other publication id
- ISRN
- language
- English
- id
- 9019976
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-18 07:23:23
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