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Circular Economy (CE) is predominately approached through a technicaland engineering paradigm, which aims to radically reduce waste by redesigning re-source flows. This often ignores the CE’s social dimension. While the entrepreneur-ship and business model literatures do recognise the importance of people in CEtransitions, this chapter goes a step further by understanding CE through an activ-ism lens. Our argument builds on social movement perspectives of societal transi-tions, showing that change is often enacted by grassroots communities in everydaysettings. We provide three examples of what we term circular society activism, illus-trating our argument. We contribute to the CE literature by conceptualising circularsociety as a form of prefigurative action that can be enacted by communities in thehere and now.

Connected Everything has embarked on horizon scanning activities, undertaken in collaboration with industrial partners and policy makers, to generate new knowledge on the challenges and opportunities for Digital Manufacturing practice and policy in 10, 20 and 30 years' time. The horizon scanning activity has been focused on four cross-cutting themes that emerged from consolidation with the digital manufacturing community, via surveys and workshops and guidance provided by the Connected Everything Executive group. Connected Everything is an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) funded Network Plus that aims to accelerate multi-disciplinary collaboration, foster new collaborations between industry and academia and tackle emerging challenges which will underpin the UK academic community's research in support of people, technologies, products and systems for digital manufacturing. A total of 27 recommendations emerged from the Connected Everything roundtable discussions which included: encouraging researchers to quantify digital solution impact; supporting the design of sustainable products; providing financial incentives for manufacturers to decarbonise; and removing legislation preventing waste from being used as a viable alternative resource.

FINAL DRAFT Connected Everything has embarked on horizon scanning activities, undertaken in collaboration with industrial partners and policy makers, to generate new knowledge on the challenges and opportunities for Digital Manufacturing practice and policy in 10, 20 and 30 years' time. The horizon scanning activity has been focused on four cross-cutting themes that emerged from consolidation with the digital manufacturing community, via surveys and workshops and guidance provided by the Connected Everything Executive group. Connected Everything is an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) funded Network Plus that aims to accelerate multi-disciplinary collaboration, foster new collaborations between industry and academia and tackle emerging challenges which will underpin the UK academic community's research in support of people, technologies, products and systems for digital manufacturing. A total of 27 recommendations emerged from the Connected Everything roundtable discussions which included: encouraging researchers to quantify digital solution impact; supporting the design of sustainable products; providing financial incentives for manufacturers to decarbonise; and removing legislation preventing waste from being used as a viable alternative resource.

Connected Everything knows that diverse teams deliver high quality research outcomes. Furthermore, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion approaches lead to happy and healthy research teams. Connected Everything wants to encourage, support and respect ideas from everyone and ensure our inclusive activities are representative of our network’s community

There are materials currently being developed that have the ability to self-healing or self-repair. While from a materials innovation perspective this technology delivers new and interesting functionalities, for product lifetime extension research, this provides an exciting opportunity to explore how this might facilitate product longevity. Utilising a literature review, this paper investigates what are the key benefits that self-healing material might offer product lifetime extension. Considering two main perspectives of product longevity, i.e. technical and service lifetime, five key benefits were identified. It is proposed that self-healing systems can help to: Enhance Physical Durability, Maintain Efficiency, Increase Reliability, Enhance Aesthetic Resilience and Reduce Cost and Risk of Future Repair. Lastly, to fully validate these factors future research and field testing of these technologies would need to be conducted to fully realise their product longevity potential.