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Record W7134272286 · doi:10.21606/drslxd.2025.017

Discoverability, availability, circularity: an upcycling design workshop

2025· article· W7134272286 on OpenAlex

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Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicSustainable Design and Development
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcess (computing)Quality (philosophy)Industrial designEngineering design processDesign processDesign education

Abstract

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Collective efforts to encourage the climate transition raises essential questions regarding industrial design practices. On that matter, the design process, based on the creation of goods using new resources, is questioned. Design needs to adapt and question its practices with the global desire to reduce the use of new energy, material, and resources. This paper explores the integration of upcycling and circular design in a workshop as part of the training of industrial designers. Based on the principle of “form follows availability”, the initiative stands out as complementary to traditional design workshop projects. The workshop is presented in detail with its learning objectives, partners and daily activities. Upon the completion of the workshop, reflexions are raised regarding the benefits of this experience for the formation of designers. First, we raise crucial differences that occurred during the design process, which was influenced by the resources available. Second, we discuss specific theoretical notions that were introduced and discussed as part of the workshop. In particular, the new concept of “discoverability” introduces the importance to let the exploration of already available material resources guide the design process to stimulate new ideas. Finally, we underline the importance of partners and other social contributors to the quality of the projects and workshop.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.918
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2025
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