Design for Sustainability: The Need for a New Agenda

Wilson, Garrath T.; Bhamra, Tracy

doi:10.3390/su12093615

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“…Design is a profession in which a range of strategies can be intelligently and creatively applied toward the resolution of potentially complex and critical social challenges. [46][47][48] These strategies can vary from digital and/or physical product-level design strategies through to socio-technical, system-level design strategies. Design as a discipline, in this sense, is not the same as design thinking: a simplified business approach for non-designers.…”

Section: A Design-led Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design‐led approach to polymer research

Wilson

Clark

Hatton

et al. 2022

Polymer International

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There is both an increasing awareness and concern that human activity is responsible for the climate crisis. The role of polymers within this narrative is not always clear, but by industries engaging in linear economic systems there will always be a need for new plastic production, and the associated planetary cost that comes with it, to meet demand. This is a particular issue for the UK Food to Go industry where single‐use plastic packaging plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the packaged contents. The circular economy, in which there would be multiple closed‐loop cycles of plastic reuse before recycling, offers a promising direction but there are several barriers to the UK Food to Go industry's transition. This perspective article introduces a design‐led approach to polymer research, highlighting three advantages that could help to overcome these barriers: frame creation as a way for synthesising complex issues towards novel research directions; the potential for changing consumer behaviour through scripted material characteristics; and multidisciplinary working as a facilitator of knowledge generation and transfer. The article concludes with an introduction to the Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go project, a design‐led research project that combines polymer chemistry with sustainable manufacturing and design to reduce the impact of UK Food to Go plastic packaging. © 2022 The Authors. Polymer International published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Industrial Chemistry.

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Section: A Design-led Approachmentioning

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Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design‐led approach to polymer research

Wilson

Clark

Hatton

et al. 2022

Polymer International

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“…One reason for the finding that some participants displayed a superficial level of knowledge and understanding may be due to a "combination of misinformation and disinformation" which can lead to the creation of new norms and perceptions resulting in design for unsustainable behavior [60] (p. 5). For example, participant I_17 suggested that they would avoid using recycled aluminum due to its loss of machinable properties.…”

Section: Opportunities To Equip Teachers With Increased Knowledge and Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Education for Sustainability: Identifying Opportunities in Ireland’s Second Level Education System

2021

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Design Education for Sustainability has the potential to accelerate and encourage education that contributes to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. (1) Arguably the potential of Design Education for Sustainability remains underutilized in Ireland’s second level education system. (2) This article reports on findings conducted as part of a research project which examines Education for Sustainable Development in Irish secondary school Design Education subjects. The research draws on data gathered through critical ethnographic interviews with teachers in practice. (3) The findings explored in this article are the barriers faced by educators in relation to the further integration of Education for Sustainable Development in Ireland’s Design Education subjects. These findings offer a unique insight into the realities of educators in progressing towards Design Education for Sustainability. (4) In identifying the challenges, this article offers a starting point to tackle the barriers associated with integrating sustainability in Design Education within the Irish second level education system. (5) The article concludes by identifying how these barriers can be tackled head on in order to progressively integrate Education for Sustainable Development in Design Education subjects.

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“…Therefore, the definition of Climate Adaptation Planning (CAP) must take specific local socio-economic contexts into consideration. International scientific communities [26,27,[29][30][31] state that coastal area adaptation should be iterative and dynamic, in recognition of the continuously evolving dynamics present in coastal territorial systems. Furthermore, adaptation measures should consider the local ecology, economy, society, politics and technology [26,[32][33][34][35].…”

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Land–Sea Interaction: Integrating Climate Adaptation Planning and Maritime Spatial Planning in the North Adriatic Basin

et al. 2020

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Land–sea interaction dynamics are physiologically regulated by an exchange of matter (and energy) between the anthropic system and the natural environment. Therefore, the appropriate management of land–sea interaction (LSI)contexts should base on those planning approaches which can holistically support coastal development, such as Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and Climate Adaptation Planning (CAP). One of the main limiting factors for this integration is the fragmentation of existing databases and information sources, which compose the territorial knowledge framework. Investigations have sought to address the representation and assessment of “wicked” and interconnected coastal problems. The present research focuses on the production of the necessary information to fill sectorial knowledge gaps and to merge the available data into a single framework. The research methodology is based on remote sensing assessment techniques and is designed to be replicated in other coastal areas to integrate CAP and MSP. The output maps are a result of the empirical application of the integration of the assessment techniques and are meant to support local decision-making processes. The result aims at illustrating and highlighting the relationships between climate change impact vulnerabilities their spatial relation to marine resources and maritime activities. This can support effective actions aimed at environmental and urban protection, the organization of the uses of the sea and adaptation to climate impacts. The application of the assessment techniques is developed on a case study in the north Adriatic Basin. The Gulf of Trieste constitutes a representative case study for the Mediterranean Basin due to its transboundary nature. The relationship and the ongoing projects between Slovenia and Italy make the case study an interesting context in which to test and train the proposed integrated planning approach. Therefore, the study investigates local vulnerability to climate impacts, i.e., Urban Heat Island (UHI) and urban runoff, and the existing relationship between the urban fabrics and the marine environment.

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Design for Sustainability: The Need for a New Agenda

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design‐led approach to polymer research

Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design‐led approach to polymer research

Design Education for Sustainability: Identifying Opportunities in Ireland’s Second Level Education System

Land–Sea Interaction: Integrating Climate Adaptation Planning and Maritime Spatial Planning in the North Adriatic Basin

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