The integrated course constitutes an educational experience whose objective is to design and develop products and services for various fields of application, including architecture and design, obtained from the reuse of by-products and waste from production activities in a logic of product, process and circular chain innovation.

Through the ‘ACTIVATING Circularity’ exercise, concepts, projects and prototypes were developed to explore the possibilities of activating circular economy processes within local realities, starting from the reuse of by-products and waste, enhancing the specificities of the context from a social, cultural, technological, economic and environmental point of view.

In collaboration with the University Sustainability Service and with the support of LaSTIn (Innovative Technological Systems Laboratory, DAD) a Circular Design Sprint activity was conducted, a redesign and prototyping challenge starting from racks and waste materials at the Politecnico di Torino.