ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the designers began to develop the Holistic Sustainability System based on the feedback received from different focusgroups and individuals, against the backdrop of United Nations Industrial Development Organization Branding Initiative in Vietnam. It offers the final iteration of their design, known as the Holistic Sustainability System, which would work as the mechanism to support and encourage the use and operationalization of the Rhizome Approach and its constituents. The Holistic Sustainability System includes the Holistic Sustainability Checklist and the Holistic Sustainability Label as tangible outputs. The checklist indicates the social, cultural, ecological and economic tenets of sustainability strongly influenced by each parameter. This supports the designer in understanding the potential and desired criteria that can make a product more holistically sustainable at each node of the production-to-consumption system. Traditional material selection parameters include function, appearance, reliability, service life, environment, compatibility, production viability and cost.
