Kode21 leverages AI to help you create sustainable products and regenerative strategies.
Sustainability is no longer just an ideal; it's a necessity and a business opportunity. At Kode21, we take a regenerative approach, moving beyond sustainability to create benefits for the planet, your customers and your business. Using customized AI tools, we speed up and enrich the creation of future-proof products and actionable strategies.
Sustainable Design AI Lab
Sustainable design is becoming the norm, not in the least through laws such as the Ecodesign (ESPR) regulation. Our Sustainable Design AI Lab is a 3-week engagement that uses custom Artificial Intelligence tooIs to map out the sustainable and regenerative possibilities for your product or product range.
Led by humans and supported by AI, the Lab results in a comprehensive menu of circular strategies and business models, innovative materials, energy reductions and regenerative growth opportunities specifically suited for your product or product range. Our method generates options for reducing your carbon footprint, resource use and other environmental factors, while aiming for valuable benefits for your customers and your company.
Additionally, the process is designed to upskill your company in sustainable and regenerative design principles, building your ability to integrate these concepts into future projects. The lab is also a great introduction to AI-supported innovation, providing experience with the AI tools that will drive efficiency and creativity in product development.
“We were thrilled by the scope and amount of ideas resulting from Kode21’s process. It gave our entire team fresh energy and the common goal of putting sustainability central in everything we do”
Margrit Reuss, Senior Objects Conservator, Nationaal Museum Voor Wererdculturen
“Kode21 gave us gorgeous tools and inspiration materials that really helped our team move forward to our sustainable objectives. Not just at product level, but also by clarifying our strategic goals”
Robert Stadman, Innovation Manager, Joolz
KoFF envisions a path to climate-positive coffee
Designing a coffee maker with a systems approach led to an estimated 50% or more emissions reduction - while improving convenience and creating an enduring relation with customers.
Circular, biobased, climate-positive design
We combine decades of experience designing products and systems for companies such as Philips and Bose with in-depth knowledge on circular economy principles, biobased materials and other regenerative design methods.
Plastic Crush exhibition for Tropenmuseum
Our collaboration with Nationaal Museum voor Wereldculturen and studio Harm Rensink resulted in low-carbon and climate-positive concepts for materials, circularity, energy, transport, content and more.
Regenerative Strategy AI Lab
Beyond sustainability lies regeneration: the key to a thriving business that contributes to restoring the health of our planetary ecosystem. Creating a regenerative strategy isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s essential for staying relevant as a business. Legislation, such as Europe’s CSRD, will make it mandatory to have plans addressing climate risks, negative impacts, and regenerative opportunities.
With the Regenerative Strategy AI Lab, Kode21 has developed a unique method that uses a full spectrum of science backed, regenerative climate solutions to define positive impact business strategies and innovations. The lab utilizes AI tools throughout the process to accelerate and deepen the process of identifying opportunities. We have partnered with organisations such as General Mills, Project Drawdown, Philips and ASN Bank to uncover regenerative opportunities in sectors as diverse as food, healthcare, museums and fashion.
We believe every company has regenerative potential. What’s yours?
animation by Stan Joosten with support from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
“Kode21 has developed a unique method that has helped organisations like General Mills go beyond emissions reductions to discover new, climate positive business opportunities and find value, not just costs, in sustainability.”
Jamie Alexander, Director, Drawdown Labs
“Fashion Regeneration’ provides insight into the contribution that we as a bank can make towards a fairer industry. It inspires all who aim to transition from a polluting system to one where human rights and the environment are protected”
Kirsten Kossen, Head of Human Rights, ASN Bank
“Kode21's 'Business of Climate Solutions' really helps find climate positive business opportunities that go far beyond the usual sustainability ideas."
Helle Ullerup, Senior Service Designer, Philips Circular Design Group
Regenerative Fashion for ASN Bank
In this project for ASN Bank we created a solutions framework describing a regenerative fashion industry, including building blocks for new business models, renewable energy systems, and biobased materials. It will serve as a basis for investments and other policy actions.
Climate Positive Healthcare with Philips
As part of a long-standing collaboration, Kode21 conducted workshops to find regenerative business opportunities in healthcare, leading to over 400 potential ideas for innovation.
Food with General Mills and Project Drawdown
Our work with food company General Mills, in collaboration with renowned climate solutions experts Project Drawdown, resulted in concepts spanning food products, digital services, branding, climate justice, and even new business units. 15 of these were incorporated into into General Mills’ Global Climate Action Plan.
"The only companies that are going to survive in the future are the companies that make a positive contribution to people and planet"
Paul Polman, co-author, Net-Positive, former Unilever CEO