Dear All,
Thanks for highlighting that very important paper- It would be great if Fabrizio is on this list and would comment as I sit on a committee with him at the DRS Sustainability SIG, alongside others who were part of the early Eco Design movements.
From what I have understood, being part of these Sustainable Design discussions at DRS, and following the threads in this discussion (Eco Design, Sustainable Design, Human Centred Design, perhaps even “more than human” design) - the different terminologies are part of the same discourse; an urgent necessity to move to a realisation of “enlivenment”. The issue we have is on the co-delivery of its values.
Surely we are all saying the same, but from different lenses?
Re The DRS Sustainability SIG - We have acknowledged people like Fuller as being early pioneer and from what I can see, the either-or approach is part of the issue of why “sustainability” as a language is not currently effective – it remains an empty signifier that urgently needs redefining.
In fact, we at DRS Sustainability SIG are having a f2F meeting at Loughborough University, London on 24/3/20 and would welcome input/provocations that could be discussed.
Perhaps anyone interested can email me separately.
Warm regards,
Britta Boyer
PhD Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Design Innovation
Loughborough University, London
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From: Paul Russell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, 5 March 2020 at 10:30
To: Britta Boyer <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Sustainable Design
Dear all,
'Sustainable Design' has not been used as a synoym for eco-design or been used solely in the context of environmental sustainability in design literature or peer reviewed publications for many years so I am surprised they are being confused as being interchangeable here in 2020.
This paper published in Design Studies in 2016 places the start of the use of Sustainable Design as including Social Sustainability in the mid 2000s. I concur with this date from my extensive research and reading.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X16300631
Ursula insists that 'Sustainable Design' in the more hollistic sense (e.g. 'Environmental, Economic, Sustainable', which itself is an old model since the 'Circles of Sustainability' model is being increasingly encouraged to replace it) has existed for 'many decades'. I can only assume that 'many decades' implies well over 20 years but, concurring with the paper above and willing to give many more sources for this, I believe it was the mid-late 2000s when 'Sustainability' began to be discussed in this context in relation to design and only around the middle of the 2010s when it became standard when using the term 'Sustainable Design' to mean more than 'Eco-design'. Thus, I do not concur that the concept I have discussed is 'many decades old'. Papanek definitely raised many of these points 50 years ago but he did not build it into any hollistic and clearly communicated model, and sadly few people listened.
Anyway, I'm digressing. What I am proposing for in 'Humanity-Centred Design' goes well beyond sustainability, which by definition only means 'the ability to be sustained'. I would propose that Humanity-Centred Design from an environmental perspective would not only produce outcomes that could be 'sustained' but that would be carbon positive, on the economic side not only be able to 'sustained' but to alleviate financial poverty, and on the social side not only sustain workforces and avoid human exploitation but to result in measurable positive affects on human wellbeing and to encourage and be part of driving towards rewarding employment in less economically developed regions/countries. In these ways and others I believe it is not 'just Sustainable Design'. I'm also not saying it is entirely new concepts, but more like a collation of drivers from other researchers into a model and process, like UCD and HCD were.
Victor Papanek, Ezio Manzini, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Elke den Ouden, and many others have talked about these issues and drivers. I am only proposing their collation into a model that would be newer and more hollistic than HCD which mostly focuses on the individual, or Social Design or Socially Responsible Design that relate to betterment and responsibility to more local or national communities, but to be focused on humanity.
Regards,
Paul Russell
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As a PhD Design Researcher looking closely at this very matter of Sustainable Design (from both a practitioner and academic perspective) , I wanted to engage and perhaps I will learn something and or inspire some new tangents....
Thank you Ursula for highlighting the fact that Sustainable Design has been around decades. I wholeheartedly agree that the concept is not new - my understanding it is that the issue is the siloed approach to Design and research and that it needs to evolve into a transdisciplinary field away from the concept of "expert" and silos that rarely talk to each other.
According to the research I have made, many researchers and designer researchers before have paved the way yet the various stakeholders in Industry haven't been been interested (a type of Akrasia) to confront the harsh realities of its effects and perhaps this (previously) impacted funding for Design research into sustainability?
It seems to be a general issue in the "real world" not to listen to experience and feedback loops.
I was a practitioner in the 1990's and one of the first eco fashion brands in the 90's - earth 33. At that time the discourse was "waste hierarchy" and the focus on reduce, reuse and recycle, hence I was developing and working with post-consumer denim waste (alongside Dr John Parkinson) and I know academics such as Emma Dewberry and Vicky Lofthouse were already working in the research field of Eco Design at that time. Goldsmiths University started their first Eco Design HE course in the late 1990's
I have been mapping out the trajectory of Sustainable Design and I found George Nelson (1945), an interdisciplinary designer, and progressive thinker was already reorienting the entire concern with capitalist destruction (built in obsolescence) around the dynamic of producer and product. I would welcome any other ideas that go back this far.
Other landmark/key people -
1968 and Buckminster Fuller's "Operating Manual For Spaceship" Earth began exploring systems thinking and looking at the concept of "regeneration". The participatory design movement in the 1970's began to encompass some of the ideas and principles.
1973 - Stafford Beer - Designing Freedom
1985 - Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Victor Papanek
1993 - Club of Budapest (Ervin Laszlo)
And of course the contemporaries thereafter.
I would welcome any other ideas to add to the map I am developing which I can make available in the future,
Warm regards,
Britta Boyer
PhD Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Design Innovation
Loughborough University, London
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On 05/03/2020, 09:15, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in on behalf of Terence Love" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Paul,
The term eco-design goes back a while further.
I owned the business name Eco-Design around 25 years ago. It was around the
time that ecodesign was a strong area of study in design research by the
ECO2-IRN group organised by Tim MacAloone and Tracy Bhamra (now on council
of DRS).
25-30 years ago was a time when many sustainable design battles were
successfully fought (and many won) in the areas that Don is talking about.
For example, it resulted in vehicle manufacturing standards for materials
identification and the avoidance of mixed plastics use that compromised
recycling, and the establishment of design for fast disassembly for
recycling and reuse. These and many other sustainable design standards and
practices have been in place for decades. In the graphic design area it
included the avoidance of problem inks. The larger challenge was improving
product design for small consumer products.
Currently, it appears the best 'recycling' approach is to keep the waste in
a single stream (no more recycling bins!). Instead, use robot and automated
waste separation. Small plants are currently available for around $1m.
Best,
Terry
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Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2020 4:34 PM
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Subject: Re: PHD-DESIGN Digest - 4 Mar 2020 (#2020-59)
Dear Ursula,
Discussion of Sustainable Design being holistic and covering social and
human well-being (as well as environmental) is not "many decades old" to my
knowledge. If you can give some sources for that older than 10-12 years ago,
other than perhaps Papanek who never used the term, that can support that
claim then please share. Sustainability in general has been discussed in
those terms for longer, sure. Literature specifically relating to design
that is explicit in discussing human wellbeing etc. is more recent than
that, obviously.
What I am proposing goes above and beyond any literature on the more
holistic Sustainable Design definitions currently available. I haven't fully
explained it in my email to be succinct and because I'll be presenting it
later.
I find your suggestion to "just Google it" to be rather insulting also. I
don't know why you would assume anyone on the list is so ignorant of the
literature in our field that they would need to "Google it" to educate
themselves.
Regards,
Paul Russell
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Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2020, 13:14
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Dear Colleagues,
interesting discussion around design for the world instead of design for the
user.
I like to point out that there is a design definition for already many
decades that does what you are searching for:
"I have recently started thinking about what will replace the HCD approach,
which itself replaced UCD well over 10 years ago now, and I came to the
title of 'Humanity-Centred Design'. It happens to be used in a couple of
places already if you google it, but is not properly defined by any of them
so I have tried to do that."
And that is Sustainable Desing or Design for Sustainability.
And there are many many people worldwide discussing and working on it. just
google it:)
best regards
Ursula
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> I have recently started thinking about what will replace the HCD approach,
which itself replaced UCD well over 10 years ago now, and I came to the
title of 'Humanity-Centred Design'. It happens to be used in a couple of
places already if you google it, but is not properly defined by any of them
so I have tried to do that.
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