The future of sustainable packaging design

Plastic exit, global e-commerce, automation of retailing supply chain, are only the most evident drivers of innovation that are revolutionizing the world of packaging.

In this revolution, the design of packaging, containers and logistic processes, the new materials and the energy saving, play important integrated roles for a territory such as Emilia Romagna - theEuropean Packaging Valley- one of the areas most involved in this sector at an international level. There are many actors involved in packaging from different fields, but the ecosystem is quite fragmented.

With this conference – organized by the Advanced Design Unit of the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna - we want to map current practices and possible “futures” of different realities, as a response to the legislative guidelines and changes in the ecosystem taking place at global level.

At the same time we want to launch anInternational Symposium, in which we want to give an overview of the innovations taking place overall and bring to the scientific and technological productive community an observatory of sustainable packaging, that is crucial to accelerate the innovation processes and the knowledge dissemination, and to consolidate the network.

Organized by:
Ecomondo Scientific Technical Committee,
Italian Cluster Made in Italy,
Advanced Design Unit of the Department of Architecture - University of Bologna