1. Context

Through our human activities, and in particular the production of environmentally-impacting products and services, our planet is today faced with a significant degradation of its natural environment. The recent report by the Centre d'analyse stratégique on responsible consumption makes an important point, emphasizing that current improvements in production methods and resource use are not enough to halt this degradation .

Today, we are faced with an environmental and societal emergency that requires us to rethink our production systems, the way we design our...