What if sustainability doesn't work out?

Tomlinson, Bill; Patterson, Donald J.; Pan, Yue; Blevis, Eli; Nardi, Bonnie; Silberman, Six; Norton, Juliet; LaViola, Joseph J.

doi:10.1145/2377783.2377794

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“…As Klein points out, these consequences are not equally (or justly) distributed-the poor invariably suffer most. SHCI can help mitigate the worst of these effects by developing technologies that "support a high quality of life" [103] in the worst case scenario. Further, in addition to the investment required to make key physical infrastructure resilient to these impacts, it is important to ensure that the technological systems upon which society has come to rely are also resilient to extreme weather, as well as being able to operate in conditions where resources for powering them are less reliable or abundant.…”

Section: Bracing For Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

This Changes Sustainable HCI

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Håkansson

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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More than a decade into Sustainable HCI (SHCI) research, the community is still struggling to converge on a shared understanding of sustainability and HCI's role in addressing it. We think this is largely a positive sign, reflective of maturity; yet, lacking a clear set of aims and metrics for sustainability continues to be the community's impediment to progressing, hence we seek to articulate a vision around which the community can productively coalesce. Drawing from recent SHCI publications, we identify commonalities that might form the basis of a shared understanding, and we show that this understanding closely aligns with the authoritative conception of a path to a sustainable future proffered by Naomi Klein in her book This Changes Everything. We elaborate a set of contributions that SHCI is already making that can be unified under Klein's narrative, and compare these categories of work to those found in past surveys of the field as evidence of substantive progress in SHCI.

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Section: Bracing For Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

This Changes Sustainable HCI

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Håkansson

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…To the extent that the issue of supply is explored at all within HCI, it is typically within the context of 'peak oil' as a potential catalyst for collapse [30]. Any serious commitment to climate change, however, must involve a strategy for getting fossil fuel companies to leave as much as 80% of their assets in the ground.…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…[30]. Here we see the emergence of Collapse Informatics [31], which pragmatically proposes a Plan B: 'If, as increasingly seems likely, humanity is unable to prevent dramatic global change, then adaptation to these transformations will be of growing relevance' [30].…”

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Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI

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Blair

Coulton

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper challenges the sustainable HCI community to move away from a focus on demand and instead address climate change as a supply problem. We identify a new route to impact, namely to focus on addressing the psychological barriers that prevent the political action needed to affect the supply of fossil fuels. Five barriers are explored as a means of revealing new research objectives for the community.

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“…Collapse informatics is "the study, design, and development of sociotechnical systems in the abundant present for use in a future of scarcity" [Tomlinson et al 2012a, p. 655]. The scenario of a virtually complete collapse of our global information system can be seen as a design fiction that imagines what would happen if our sustainability efforts fail [Tomlinson et al 2012b]. The scenario imagines that global warming occurs beyond the tipping point and, as a result, all our systems start to fail.…”

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A sustainable design fiction

Wakkary

Desjardins

Hauser

et al. 2013

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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In this article, we argue that an approach informed by practice theory coupled with design fiction provides useful insights into the role of interaction design with respect to environmental sustainability. We argue that a practice-oriented approach can help interaction designers step away from models of individual behavior and studies of artifacts towards seeing sustainable behaviors as part of multidimensional and interrelated practices and practice elements. We analyze two previously conducted studies. The first study of everyday repair focuses on how people repair their broken objects. The second study of green-DIY examines how green enthusiasts facilitate their practices of making sustainable DIY (do-it-yourself ) projects. We describe the practices of everyday repairers and green enthusiasts in terms of materials, competences, and meanings, and the interrelations among those elements, using the framework of Shove et al. [2012]. We argue that understanding the dynamics of practice and their unique configurations is a starting point to redefine the roles of sustainable interaction design (SID). We propose that designers design towards resources and tools in ways that reflect on the challenges of intelligibility of their design interventions in practices. In addition to considering SID in the light of practice theories, we reveal how design fictions are readily incorporated into green practices in ways that transform those practices and hold implications for transformations of design as well. We bring forward opportunities for designers to co-design with DIY enthusiasts, targeted as practitioners in their own right, designing toward or within a design fiction. As a result, we conclude with the possibility for sustainable interaction designers to become practice-oriented designers who design with transparent open strategies and accessible materials and competences.

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What if sustainability doesn't work out?

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Cited by 14 publications

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This Changes Sustainable HCI

This Changes Sustainable HCI

Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI

A sustainable design fiction

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