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Eco-Design Strategies: products, services, and systems – Product-Service System (PSS). Develop and experiment with a portfolio of PSS eco-design strategies that support all design phases: design of PSS architecture, materials, and components; cradle-to-cradle PSS lifecycle design and impacts evaluation; service and communication design for social innovation and behavioral change. Spoke 2 objectives: - Producing a portfolio of eco-design strategies and related methodologies and tools that support all phases of PSS design, and lifecycle management - Developing a cradle-to-cradle design approach based on new models of PSS impact assessment along their entire lifecycle up to their potential zero-impact dismission, recycle, reuse and/or remanufacturing - Elaborating and experimenting design actions to promote social innovation and to support sustainable behavioural change