Design Hive – a tool for assist designers speculates of product service systems

Abstract

This article presents the Design Hive Tool, developed as prompts cards, as a mean to help designers reflect critically on production and consumption, and speculate sustainable solutions. For this article, a literature review was carried out, seeking to understand critical design approaches and how they can act to promote sustainability, and the concept of product-service system and how they can be a sustainable alternative to problems related to consumption and mass production. The bibliographic review was the basis for developed the tool, which was tested in practiced through two workshops, in which it was possible to observe the benefit in to stimulating designers’ critical reflection about sustainability and how it can help in search for sustainable design approaches, result in the development of product-service systems.