Postcards From “the Edge”: Toward Futures of Design for Sustainability Transitions

Gaziulusoy, İdil

doi:10.18682/cdc.vi73.1038

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“…Ref. [124] explored design practices that envision sustainable futures, and Ref. [118] emphasized the significance of everyday life and lifestyles in driving sustainability transitions.…”

Section: Philosophies and Paradigmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Could People and Communities Contribute to the Energy Transition? Conceptual Maps to Inform, Orient, and Inspire Design Actions and Education

Pillan,

Costa,

Caiola

2023

Sustainability

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Energy Transition (ET) is crucial for sustainable development, impacting inclusive prosperity and social justice. Knowledge development, innovative solutions, and awareness actions become crucial as energy systems transform. ET necessitates behavioural and cultural changes involving individuals in responsible decision making. The active engagement of all societal actors, including people and communities is essential. The article is authored by a university research team specializing in Design for Sustainability, Service Design, and Design for Experience, and it addresses two central research questions: (i) how can individuals and communities contribute to ET? and (ii) how can design theories, methods, and expertise contribute to generating knowledge and solutions for ET? The research employs a multidisciplinary literature review and case study analysis. It is structured into two main sections. The first section examines ET, drawing upon European Union (EU) official documents and academic literature to outline its values, objectives, actors, initiatives, and challenges, focusing on the role of citizens and communities. The second section explores the design’s contributions, summarizing relevant philosophies and solutions aligned with ET goals, challenges, and bottlenecks. Conceptual maps were created to address the knowledge gap on ET objectives and guidelines, providing design-oriented reference knowledge and principles. The purpose of the research is to define a conceptual framework made up of maps to guide researchers, designers, and design educators in understanding the complexity of ET and to inspire their intervention proposals.

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“…Ref. [124] explored design practices that envision sustainable futures, and Ref. [118] emphasized the significance of everyday life and lifestyles in driving sustainability transitions.…”

Section: Philosophies and Paradigmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Could People and Communities Contribute to the Energy Transition? Conceptual Maps to Inform, Orient, and Inspire Design Actions and Education

Pillan,

Costa,

Caiola

2023

Sustainability

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“…But without follow-up analysis, DfST integrations do not produce learning for future theoretical development; thus, the of-contexts of transitions continue to remain beyond the reach of design. First, it is necessary to establish shared DfST frameworks and networks of transitions projects framed by DfST (Gaziulusoy, 2019;Kossoff, 2015). Second, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate the systemic impacts of design interventions and practices; it shall no longer be an optional research activity.…”

Section: Implications For Dfst: Reaching Out To the Of-contexts Of Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-positioning design for sustainability transitions, practice theory and transitions theories: towards dialogue and collaboration

Öztekin

Gaziulusoy

2020

JDR

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This paper examines the integration potential of three bodies of knowledge that theorise and strategise about sustainability transitions and societal change: design for sustainability transitions (DfST), transitions theories (TTs) and practice theory (PT). After presenting an overview of their particular conceptions of change, narratives of change and foci of interventions, we comparatively assess: i) the dynamics of societal change that they highlight; ii) the scopes of change that they target and iii) the phases of change with which they actively engage. Our findings suggest that DfST, TTs and PT undertake distinct and yet equally relevant and necessary lenses and practices to understand and steer sustainability transitions. We argue that there is a need for establishing dialogues and collaborations between these three approaches, linking their activities, processes, learnings and propositions in order to initiate the formation of an aligned sustainability transitions research.

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“…The language used can have an impact on their relationship and help to avoid a form of "us" (experts, researchers, designers) and "them" position which may be increasingly less relevant. This relationship and related designer mindset and posture is already being widely questioned in Design for Sustainability: in Social Innovation and Systemic and Transition design approaches [6] [7] the focus is on lifestyles and actively equipping communities to be the on-going (re)designers of their environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

(Re) Naming the People at the Centre of Design Process

Green

2023

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, EPDE 2023

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While design methodology can be applied to ever-wider problems, 'people' remain the centre of design's focus. In this evolving landscape, it remains relevant to question which words should be used to refer to these people. While a wide range of words exist, each one can potentially influence or limit the way people are considered and are present in design process. Different terms suggest different levels of participation by those concerned, in an evolving context where more active roles are sought for the people concerned by design interventions. This paper discusses chronologies of accepted terminology for different people involved in design processes and highlights recent evolutions and debates around certain words. Based on literature reviews and in-depth interviews with design practitioners and researchers, seven issues around user/people terminology are identified and could constitute a basis for further research. This discussion paper aims to confront ambiguities and encourage considering appropriate, responsible language use in evolving design process. (Re)naming the people at the heart of design methodology has ethical implications and is particularly relevant in the design education context, influencing the status given to people involved in future design activity.

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Postcards From “the Edge”: Toward Futures of Design for Sustainability Transitions

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

How Could People and Communities Contribute to the Energy Transition? Conceptual Maps to Inform, Orient, and Inspire Design Actions and Education

How Could People and Communities Contribute to the Energy Transition? Conceptual Maps to Inform, Orient, and Inspire Design Actions and Education

Co-positioning design for sustainability transitions, practice theory and transitions theories: towards dialogue and collaboration

(Re) Naming the People at the Centre of Design Process

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