Dear Stefanie.
I am currently writing a book on the subject: Making Matters Matter to Man.
On my site: www.borjesson-mk.se you will find a link to my thesis by demanding a password.
On http://thefoundobject.canalblog.com you will find papers and articles.
I think the latter is 'fairly' updated!
Good Luck.
Kristina
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Subject: Re: What would help you teach sustainable design?
Thank you for responding to my message, Kristina. Your comment was
insightful and reflects what i am currently researching. Is there an
unsimplified version of your response i could read? (particularly with
regards to your comments on human centered design)
Thanks,
-Stefanie
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Kristina Borjesson <
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> Thank you for you long post Jinan.
> I will read it again but make one immediate comment here: I do not think
> humans will ever intuitively act eco-centric or even sustain a learned
> eco-centric way of living if it does not comply with their inbuilt
> anthropo-centric way of being. So, we probably have top exploit
> anthropo-centric behaviour for the better of sustainablity instead of being
> somewhat idealistic and achieve very little.
> Kristina
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:49:03
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> Subject: Re: What would help you teach sustainable design?
>
> Dear Terry/ Kristina/ Ann/ Chris......
>
> Design education can not be seen in isolation. As mentioned in Kristina s
> mail the issue basically is to understand the shift from anthropocentric to
> eco centrism and to have sustainable sensibility in our very being so that
> our actions are sustainable and they are not afterthoughts.
> This shift is evident in all educational systems based on linear, rational
> knowledge system.
> My research of almost 25 years has been around human alienation, where he
> lost the 'beingness' of eco centrism, sustainability and recyclability as
> the primary givens from where he acted upon the earth doing least harm.
>
> The development of linear, rational beingness is what has distanced him
> from his inner nature which is rooted in the ethics of NATURE.
> We are facing one of the deepest crisis and the cause is related our
> alienation. In fact this is is a cognitive crisis.
> As i mentioned in an earlier post regarding destruction of cultures,
> homogenization are also to be seen in this light. Just this century has
> witnessed the destruction of over 1000 languages.
>
> I have started a very small initiative called 're imagining schools' where
> I am attempting to value the natural and biological propensity to make
> sense of the world by respecting the autonomy of the child.
> Modern preoccupation with objectivity has eliminated the centrality of
> the know-er in making sense of the world.More over this hasnt resulted in
> any objective understanding of the world. Even cognitive science which is a
> recent entry has many schools of thought which are basically opinions.
> The shift I am trying to make is to create conducive enviornment for
> children to BE so that they are free and autonomous to understand the
> world.
> Till now we have been responding to the question 'how to teach children'
> and we need to respond to 'how children learn'. The earlier belong to the
> realm of psychology and that is why Skinner was the main person and the
> second question belong to the realm of biology. The latest researches in
> the area of cognition, neuro biology etc point to another possibility.
> Child is not fed with ready made 'knowledge' but is allowed to learn and
> create 'knowledge'. When you deal with ready made knowledge reasoning is
> put to use to understand but when one deals with unknown reasoning has no
> role. One needs to be open, observant, divergent, intuitive and allow the
> self organizing ability in us to make sense for us. Very much like the way
> we learned our mother tongue.
>
> In a way less of ego and more of the know-er with in us.
> This principle can be used even in higher studies but may be sufficient
> unlearning and repairing of the rational cognition one is accustomed to is
> also needed.
> One area I have been looking at is the aesthetic sensibility as at this
> level lot of homogenization is taking place.
>
> Please see the links to see some of my explorations.
> Jinan
> design activist, researcher, educationist India
> http://reimaginingschools.wordpess.com
> http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/sensing-nature
> http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/
> http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
>
> On 20 January 2012 08:57, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Dear Jinan,
> > What specific explicit practical changes to design education curricula
> are
> > you suggesting?
> > Many people have been 'exploring' (w)holistic approaches and
> perspectives
> > to design education for what is currently called 'sustainability' since
> > the
> > 60s.
> > The challenge seems to be in identifying exactly what is best included in
> > the design educaiton curriculum. We've spent 50 years exploring, now
> > perhaps
> > is time for making decisions?
> > One problem in this is that earlier explorers and key environmental
> thought
> > leaders such as Viktor Papanek, Rachel Carson, Illich and those of the
> > alternative and appropriate technologies and the green movement were
> > helpful and took us a limited way. To establish design education for
> > sustainability on those sources would be to lock us into the past. It is
> > time to create design education that addresses the next stage rather than
> > simply emulates them.
> > I suggest, to do that requires first focusing on why and how those
> earlier
> > approaches and the current 'popular' views of what is sustainable design
> do
> > not work (there is empirical evidence that this is so). This in turn
> > requires specific design education content - which is easy to specify.
> Next
> > would require the skills (rather than simply knowledge content) to be
> able
> > to identify counter-intuitive solutions that would work. These are
> > necessarily counter-intuitive because of the previous 50 years of
> > problematic 'green' conditioning. Again, it is relatively easy to
> specify
> > design education strategies to teach counter-intuitive design thinking.
> > Best wishes
> > Terry
> >
> >
> >
> Jinan,
> 'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
>
> www.re-cognition.org
> www.kumbham.org
> http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/
> reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
> 09447121544
> 0487 2386723
>
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