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Methodology and tool adjustment for the application of Ecodesign within the Colombian context

The current research project started with the hypothesis that it would be possible to apply the ecodesign methodology and tools, developed by the “Design for Sustainability” group of Delft University of Technology, to the Colombian context. The research was lead through a 5 year application and adjustment of this methodology and its tools in the classroom and in projects with different types of enterprises with their production plants in Bogotá, Cali and Medellin, Colombia. The adjustments were made empirically, responding needs expressed by the students and environmental staff and leaders of the enterprises related to the projects in the different meetings before, during and after the projects. The adjustments were made in the field of the methodology itself adjusting the initial methodology to the Colombian context, and the inclusion of context specific tools responding especially the need of more guidance of the different professionals within and outside the enterprises related to the project. The inclusion of Life Cycle Thinking and system thinking as the basic philosophies behind the adjusted methodology resulted in a bases leading to an understanding of the importance of ecodesign in all parts of the enterprise. The inclusion of business administration tools in the initial part of the project and Life Cycle Assessment as the main tool to analyse the environmental and economic performance of the product, lead to the participation of professionals of different backgrounds in the projects. The actual methodology and its tools are now also applied in other Latin American countries, with the goal to further develop the work initially started by the “Design for Sustainability” group and to try to get to the same change process as seen in Central America and Colombia, and has been evolved, thanks to the consciousness of some related enterprises, to more social projects with groups of poor people in Colombian cities and its countryside.