Design for disassembly

UK based Technology company Kano is resisting the throw away culture of technology by teaching kids how to disasseble their technology. Each of Kano's kits first asks the user to build the hardware, then teaches them how to code on it, before celebrating the finished product – be that a game, artwork or piece of music – through the KanoWorld online community.

Lego-style ease of disassembly is so sacrosanct to the company as a design principle that, if a desirable feature were only achievable by gluing components together, that feature wouldn't make it into production.