In our role with the Industrial Design Research Lab (IDRL) we were engaged by Australian manufacturing industry client looking to identify opportunities in the ‘smart’ tech-enabled street furniture sector. Following a comprehensive analysis of existing solutions we deployed our unique design-research process to propose an integrated product-service system offering. 

By prioritising ethical and socially sustainable strategies for integrating technology into public spaces we designed a modular system-based solution following design-for-disassembly principles [to read more about the potential outcomes of tech-integrated products, see our thought-leadership piece here:

https://theconversation.com/technology-is-making-cities-smart-but-its-also-costing-the-environment-99296]