This book offers a variety of cases detailing developments in jewelry sustainability, highlighting growing consumer awareness and desire for more environmentally and socially conscious products. Its component chapters describe trends in jewelry that embrace new materials, processes, styles, and technologies. Initiatives spanning various sectors are presented, including chapters covering large industries, independent artisanal jewelers, and research facilities. The cases here highlight how societal demands influence product development and shape the jewelry market. This book is intended for industry professionals, designers, researchers, and consumers as a comprehensive resource for sustainable practices in the jewelry industry.

Offers case studies on sustainability in the jewelry industry Discusses alternatives to dwindling resources and inhumane practices Explores many trends in the contemporary jewelry market

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Mariana Kuhl Cidade Professor in the Department of Industrial Design (DDI) and in the Graduate Program in Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscaping (PPGAUP) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Dr. Cidade graduated in Industrial Design and holds an MSc and PhD in Design (PGDesign) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Her research includes Contemporary and Traditional Jewelry, Gems and Cuts, Jewelry with Natural and Unusual Materials; Sustainable Jewelry; Bionics, Recycling and Reuse of Problematic Materials, CO2 and Fiber Laser Cutting and Engraving Process, and Creative Technologies. She is associated with the Innovation and Sustainability in Design Lab (NOVA Lab) at UFSM.

Felipe Luis Palombini Professor in the Department of Industrial Design (DDI) and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscaping (PPGAUP) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Dr. Palombini holds an MSc and a PhD in Design (PGDesign), and PostDoc in Botany from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His main research topics are focused on sustainability, ecodesign, digital manufacturing, bionics, and materials characterization. He is associated with the Innovation and Sustainability in Design Lab (NOVA Lab) at UFSM, the Design and Computer Simulation Research Group (DSC), and the Plant Anatomy Laboratory (LAVeg), at UFRGS.

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Chapter 1. Situated jewelry: social mediation and fabulation in adornment.- Chapter 2. Circularity as a Force for Sustainable Creative Jewelry Creation and Production.- Chapter 3. The Jewelry Effect: Exploring the Influence of Jewelry Quality on Wearer Perception.- Chapter 4. Sustainable Jewellery: Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives with special reference to India.- Chapter 5. Caio Mourão, the lord of metals.- Chapter 6. African Joy. Precious artifacts between tradition and innovation, as a model of ecodesign.- Chapter 7. Jewellery as Therapy: Uncovering the Hidden Healing Properties.- Chapter 8. Indigenous People's Accessory on Designomics Model: The Uniqueness of Saga Seeds Transformed into Exclusive Accessories.- Chapter 9. Nature and artistry: buriti fiber in Brazilian contemporary jewelry and Ivete Cattani's vision.- Chapter 10. Who Defines Adornment? Questioning Gender Norms in Contemporary Jewelry Through Beauvoir and Butler.- Chapter 11. Ornamental potential of the UFJF Botanical Garden: analysis of local flora for use in territorial jewelry.- Chapter 12. The Nacre and the Grain: Approaches to Ecological Empathy in Scotland.- Chapter 13. Sustainable materials and processes in the jewelry sector on the Amazonian scenery: reflections and possibilities of action.- Chapter 14. Bamboo as a Sustainable Alternative for Developing Contemporary Jewelry: Advantages and Limitations.- Chapter 15. Systemic Design and Circular Economy: Transforming Waste into Raw Material in Jewelry The Case of Coconut and Gold Jewelry and the Itaporarte Project.