DIT Egnahem - Your own home | Circular Regions

SRL 6 - solution(s) demonstrated in relevant environment and in co‐operation with relevant stakeholders to gain initial feedback on potential impact

DIT Egnahem – Your own home

Do-It-Together: Sustainable homes for all

Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden

ORGANISATION / PARTNERS

Parti Design

BUSINESS MODEL

SCALE: National

Stakeholder:

CitizenKnowledge SectorPrivate SectorPublic SectorThird Sector

Type:

B2B - Business to BusinessB2C - Business to Consumer

BUSINESS MODEL FORMAT:

Product Type(s):

FACET & LEVEL

FACET:

Built EnvironmentCommunityCreative Arts/CultureDesignManufacturingMaterial FlowsNetworks & HubsReuse

LEVEL:

Micro - Company/Organisation

Company/Organisation
Nano - User, Product, Component & Material

The circularity of products, components, and materials, included in three wider systemic levels, all along the value chain and through- out their entire lifecycle

SOCIETAL READINESS LEVEL & POTENTIAL

FUTURE POTENTIAL

ScaleableReplicableNetworkable

SOCIETAL READINESS LEVEL

SRL 6 - solution(s) demonstrated in relevant environment and in co‐operation with relevant stakeholders to gain initial feedback on potential impact

SRL 6 - solution(s) demonstrated in relevant environment and in co‐operation with relevant stakeholders to gain initial feedback on potential impact

CIRCULAR CYCLE PHASE

STATUS & TIMELINE

Milestone title	Date	Content
eg start date

DESCRIPTION

TITLE: DIT Egnahem - Your own home

CONCEPT: Do-It-Together: Sustainable homes for all

LOCAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION: Svenska

wikihpuse core principles, support actors, project manager, choose how much you can do yourself, and there would be a choice of local trades to get in, also designers to work with. network of local actors collaborating on wikihouse basis. whole solution from design to living

creating a methodolody, not just a procudt.

coompanion as a partner.

farmer, who gives a free place to work at in hemberga gård stöcksjö

IMPACT

SOCIAL

Increased physical activity
Increased inclusion
Increased local resilience
Increased contacts among people
Increased Human Capital - people's health, knowledge, skills and motivation
Increased access to services/products
Developing Social Capital in partnership with others (ie families, communities, businesses, trade unions, educational, voluntary organisations)
Reduced gender inequalities
Increased emergency preparedness
Reduced social pressure
Less hierarchical organisations
Increased quality of life
Increased local pride
New community space
Improved wellbeing
Increased employment

BARRIERS

CULTURAL
- Lack of leadership
- Company/community culture
- Limited understanding on impacts
- Willingness to collaborate in the value chain
- Consumer interest and awareness
- Operating in a linear system
- Change of mindset
MARKET
- Technology and infrastructure path dependency & lock-in
- Limited funding
- Low virgin material prices
- International and geopolitical competition
- Traceability/transparency in the value chain
- Demand for low prices
- Complementary skills/services required
- Lack of fiscal tools for internalizing environmental costs
SOCIAL
- Lack of awareness
- Lack of sense of urgency
- Lack of community connection
- Lack of civic engagement
- Lack of trust
- Consumption habits
- Social status linked to consumption
TECHNOLOGICAL
- Circular design
- Ability to deliver high quality remanufactured products
- Too few large scale projects
- Geographic dispersion of supply chains
- Geographic dispersion of products/materials
- Complexity of the materials to be recycled
REGULATORY
- Limited Circular Procurement
- Government incentive support the linear economy
- Circularity is not efficiently integrated into innovation policies
- Recycling policies are not efficient enough to yield high quality
- Strict planning and permission hurdles

ENABLERS

CULTURAL
- Integration of the CE concept into training and educational programs
- Better consideration of the labour force
- Supporting an inclusive workforce
- Reduced gender inequality
- A creative and skilled problem-solving resource
- Preparation of future professional practices and understanding
MARKET
- Knowledge of impact
- Competitive advantage for early adopters
- Functional service economy (XaaS)
- Digital infrastructure
- Valuing the services, not only the products - provided by nature
- New alliances and collaborations
- Access to regional / global supply of secondary materials & by products
TECHNOLOGICAL
- Increased resource productivity, cost reductions
- Increased environmental performance
- Increased efficiency
- Better waste processing
- Higher quality of recycled materials
- Digital technologies and engineering to support business models
- Biomimicry innovation - emulating natures strategies
SOCIAL
- Change in the choices made by consumers
- Increased status related to second-hand and circular products
- More inclusive and connected communities
- Stronger personal connections
- Civic engagement and voluntary activities
- Shared norms, values, attitudes, and beliefs
REGULATORY
- Green & Circular Procurement
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- Tax shift from Labour to Resources
- No or low VAT on circular products and services
- Provide access to funding to encourage experimentation, innovation and redesign
- Foster the development of new technologies with the support of public authorities
- Assess progress using reliable indicators for imports and local production while accounting for the life cycles of products
- Use of circular performance indicators by governments, investors and businesses can encourage the value chain to become more circular
- Promote public-private partnerships to better counter and lift political barriers