Publicação
Sustainable product design in luxury
| Resumo: | Early-stage product design decisions play a decisive role in determining environmental performance across product life cycles and are therefore central to cleaner production strategies. Despite extensive research on sustainable product design and ecodesign in high-impact industrial sectors, their application to the luxury sector, particularly to metallic accessories, remains largely unexplored. This study addresses this gap through a systematic literature review of 108 peer-reviewed publications published between 2010 and 2025, conducted using the PSALSAR methodology. The review identifies and classifies the dominant sustainability-oriented design frameworks, assessment tools, and implementation practices applied across industrial contexts. Results show a strong predominance of life cycle–based approaches, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), life cycle sustainability assessment, and multi-criteria decision-making methods, frequently integrated with ecodesign, circular design, and digital optimization tools. While these approaches are widely implemented in sectors such as automotive, electronics, and consumer goods, their transfer to luxury product development is constrained by material criticality, low production volumes, and stringent aesthetic and performance requirements. Based on cross-sectoral synthesis, this study derives a set of design-oriented guidelines for luxury metallic accessories, emphasizing early integration of life cycle thinking, material and process efficiency, durability-oriented design, modularity, and traceable sourcing. The findings contribute to cleaner production research by extending life cycle–based design principles to low-volume, high-value manufacturing contexts and by providing a structured foundation for environmentally informed decision-making in luxury metal product development. |
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| Autores principais: | Morais Cláudio, Marta do Céu |
| Outros Autores: | Godina, Radu; Matias, João C. O. |
| Assunto: | Circular economy Cleaner production Ecodesign Literature review Luxury manufacturing Metallic accessories Sustainable product design Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment General Environmental Science Strategy and Management Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production |
| Ano: | 2026 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | Early-stage product design decisions play a decisive role in determining environmental performance across product life cycles and are therefore central to cleaner production strategies. Despite extensive research on sustainable product design and ecodesign in high-impact industrial sectors, their application to the luxury sector, particularly to metallic accessories, remains largely unexplored. This study addresses this gap through a systematic literature review of 108 peer-reviewed publications published between 2010 and 2025, conducted using the PSALSAR methodology. The review identifies and classifies the dominant sustainability-oriented design frameworks, assessment tools, and implementation practices applied across industrial contexts. Results show a strong predominance of life cycle–based approaches, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), life cycle sustainability assessment, and multi-criteria decision-making methods, frequently integrated with ecodesign, circular design, and digital optimization tools. While these approaches are widely implemented in sectors such as automotive, electronics, and consumer goods, their transfer to luxury product development is constrained by material criticality, low production volumes, and stringent aesthetic and performance requirements. Based on cross-sectoral synthesis, this study derives a set of design-oriented guidelines for luxury metallic accessories, emphasizing early integration of life cycle thinking, material and process efficiency, durability-oriented design, modularity, and traceable sourcing. The findings contribute to cleaner production research by extending life cycle–based design principles to low-volume, high-value manufacturing contexts and by providing a structured foundation for environmentally informed decision-making in luxury metal product development. |
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