Interdisciplinary Transition Innovation, Management, and Engineering (InTIME) Design: an intersection analysis of design approaches for whole-system sustainability

Abstract

Interdisciplinary transition innovation, management, and engineering (InTIME) Design has been developed to overcome sustainability transition challenges in complex systems. The intersections of InTIME Design with a range of reported design for sustainability (DfS) approaches were analysed. Results demonstrate similar core principles across DfS approaches. InTIME Design accomplishes convergence of the studied approaches, and organises the DfS approaches into workflow phases, adds a complimentary wicked problem definition, and deploys systems engineering problem solving.