Futureproof designing. Fishery sustainability and system methodological design processes.

Summary

In order to anticipate uncertain sustainability North Sea policies, the fishing sector has an urgent need for new academic design knowledge. By explicitly integrating the increased sustainability factors (1990 - present) in conceptual ship designprocesses, integral sustainable concepts can be generated: midterm future-proof (2030, Green Economy, circularity) and long term futureproof (2050, Blue Economy, climate-adaptive). With social changes, conventional design processes fall short. Based on three sustainability-integrated fisheries (re)design cases, new system methodical ship design processes have been developed. Designing has been methodically developed from derivative (Arbo-law, 1993), disruptive (CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, 2004) into prospective (Paris climate agreement, 2015). For design & engineering sciences, these paradigms are design shifts, a PhD gamechanger: from Static-reactive into Dynamic-anticipatory system design processes. By generalizing sustainability-related ship design principles, spin-off is created into cross design domains, including agricultural ones. The academic design principles were Socio-technicalsystems Designing (TU Delft) and Biosystems Engineering (WUR).