The 2023 International Symposium on World Ecological Design (ISWED2023) was successfully held in Guangzhou on 17 December 2023. Focusing on the four topics of Digital Technology and Health, Digital Technology and Transportation, Digital Technology and Energy and Digital Technology and Environment, it provided a platform for professionals and researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss recent advances in the field of ecological design. Research papers related to the four topics were received from leading experts and scholars in the field of ecological design, from countries including China, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

We received 518 online submissions from researchers. All papers were reviewed by three or four independent experts. Based on the reviewer’s comments, 125 papers were accepted for publication in this book. We believe that this symposium will promote communication and collaboration between organizations and researchers in the field of Eco-Design and digital-technology integration.

The ISWED2023 was hosted by the World Eco-Design Conference (UN Consultative NGO) and organized by the National Eco-Industrial Design Institute (EIDI), the Engineering Research Center of Computer Aided Product Innovation Design of the Ministry of Education, the Eco-Design Industry Institute of Guangdong Province and Nanchang University. We received strong support from the General Collaboration in International Design Education (GCIDE), initiated by the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (UN Technology Bank), Ningbo Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Macau University of Science and Technology, the World Eco-Design Conference (UN Consultative NGO) and other relevant domestic and foreign higher education institutes.

We thank all authors for their efforts in submitting their manuscripts on time, and we would like to express our gratitude to the reviewers for their time and expertise. Thanks are due to Mr. Maarten Fröhlich and his colleagues at IOS Press for facilitating the publication of these proceedings of ISWED2023.

Fangtian Ying

Lakhmi C. Jain

Ran Wan

Qun Wu

Fuqian Shi