Dongfang Yang is a PhD candidate in Design at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and has been working on research activities focusing on designs for sustainability, including life cycle designs, life cycle assessments, ecodesign, sustainable product–service system design etc. She is a member of the LeNS network, which is a community connecting 150 universities/institutions working on the design for sustainability around the world. She managed and participated in research projects (both publicly funded and privately funded research projects on a national (MIUR, Fondazione Cariplo) and international scale (EU Erasmus+)) on design and system innovation for sustainability at LeNS Lab Polimi from the year 2019 to the present.