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ange biodiversity loss and other environmental problems demand changes on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business as usual and yet despite accumulative social and technological innovation environmental problems are accelerating far more quickly than sustainable solutions the design industry is one of many industries mobilising to address environmental imperatives while sustainability oriented designers are working towards change from many angles addressing climate change and other environmental problems on this scale demands much more dramatic transformations in economic ideas structures and systems that enable or disable sustainable design put simply designers cannot design sustainable future ways of living on scale without a shift in economic priorities human impacts on planetary processes in the anthropocene require new types of ecologically engaged design and economics if the necessary technological social and political transitions are to take place world making design design is crucial to this debate because it is key to the creation of future ways of living designers make new ideas products services and spaces desirable to future users with the shape of a font a brand the styling of a product the look and feel of a service the touch of a garment the sensation of being in a particular building designers serve the interests of customers generally those with disposal income they do so according the logic and modes of governance generated by what is valued by economic structures design is the practice that makes capitalism so appealing continue reading may 8 2019 by dr joanna boehnert categories climate change design ecological literacy education environmental communication tags economics leave a comment the ecological in ai fictions and futures written with alistair alexander for presentation at after ai symposium 17 may 2024 ai can be seen as the ultimate and most extreme manifestation of extractive technological accelerationism the rapid development of ai infrastructure to meet the exponential scaling of large language models is already causing power shortages in the us energy grid h alper 2024 key figures in ai claim that its astronomical power demands will require a future energy breakthrough reuters 2024 according to scientific american large scale energy from nuclear fusion is not likely to materialise before around 2050 the cautious might add on another decade ball 2024 meanwhile the resource inputs for manufacture of the specialised ai gpu processors are not disclosed by manufacturers but they are also necessarily prodigious the dynamics of industry hype speculation and financialisation exist independently of the material requirements and ecological consequences of ai technologies in this presentation we offer strategies to assess ai s ecological and social impact both positive and negative beyond the current hype cycle we present ecological frameworks to help to methodically assess the true potential of ai or lack thereof in a context of climate and ecological crises and our hoped for capacity for planetary regeneration like all technology ai depends on natural resources and relatively stable ecological circumstances we use the concept of after as part of a long series of post bubble and post collapse states where aspirations and promises of ai hit boundaries of resource requirements to manufacture ai the energy to power ai and the ecological consequences of these processes including associated acceleration of ghg emissions and associated climate change impacts intersecting vectors of ecological social and economic crises will all be accelerated with incautious approaches to ai where the supposed unintended consequences have yet to be accounted for in the new proposals in this context the speculation that widespread agi can exist in the context of the polycrisis is pure fiction the fact that the tech world has made this narrative as dominant as it is reveals a deep denial and dismissal of the ecological context in tech discourses a consequence of ecological illiteracy https www slideshare net slideshow the ecological in ai fictions and futures boehnert alexander pdf 268713852 may 19 2024 by dr joanna boehnert categories uncategorized leave a comment drs sustainability sig on crisis our design research society sustainability special interest group text was just published in b rand magazine this is what we wrote 1 despite over 50 years of calls for action on ecological concerns the design industry has not yet enacted a substantial response to the accelerating climate and ecological emergencies design institutions are slowly responding with attempts to bridge the gap between current design priorities and those that will enable the design of sustainable ways of living on the planet how can designers facilitate responsive actions on a scale that could make a difference sustainability discourses in design have grown and diversified originally preoccupied with the remediation of industry processes and practices to drive resource efficiencies i e doing more with less the field has broadened to recognise a much wider range of ways that design theory and practice can generate ecological value and social justice this period of history has also witnessed alarming decreases in planetary health evidenced through the overshoot of many ecological planetary boundaries such as a warming climate ocean acidification high levels of biodiversity loss and extinctions alongside these physical impacts are a series of cultural ones found in the under representation of voices from people with economic health security and habitat poverties 2 the position and power of design education and design research for sustainability in creating both strategic and practical positive impact is fractured the definition of sustainability is a case in point shifting the language and activity of sustainability from responses favouring amelioration ecoservice logics and resource efficiencies to one instead revealed through critical ecological and social value proves challenging misappropriation of the terms sustainability and sustainable further complicate ways in which new knowledge and understanding can be adequately authenticated against pervasive green washing techno fix reliance and oversimplifications of complex transition imperatives we now face a critical ecological turn the crux of this shift for design research is the need to redefine this discipline space in transitionary times to create the ecological imagination of and ways for design as this century progresses the distinction between rigorous approaches to sustainable transitions and greenwashing discourses is a battleground in many design institutions outdated priorities ideas and structures need to be challenged the ways of thinking and doing that led to our current crises are not fit for purpose yet ecologically engaged perspectives are still poorly understood by many continue reading august 15 2023 by dr joanna boehnert categories climate change design design activism design educaton ecological literacy education feminism visual communication visual ecology leave a comment sexism and greenwash greenwashing is normal in industries involved with unsustainable development in my attempts to help highlight greenwashing i have encountered resistance in the form of sexism it seems that far too many people cannot recognise sexism when it is happening in response to these experiences i have made a handy graphic perhaps this tool will help identify it when it occurs so changes can be made thanks to the people slowfactory and theequalityinstitute for the inspiration also i need to say that as a white women i have privileges denied to the majority of people on this planet all the dynamics described above intersect with other types of discrimination faced by people of colour and other groups who face much more severe types of structural and systemic discrimination august 5 2023 by dr joanna boehnert categories design activism design educaton feminism uncategorized tags design greenwash 3 comments transition templates pathways to net zero transition templates pathways to net zero is a three year research project funded by the ahrc innovation scholars programme as a collaboration between dr joanna boehnert of bath school of design and livework s sustainable futures lab the project will map pathways for net zero in five sectors of the uk economy we bring outside academics and organisations into a collaborative space by conducting expert and stakeholder consultation and participatory systems mapping this work will inform the development of systemic service design processes for socio technological transitions for each sector a new transition template design process will be applied to envision low carbon models of living we will work with sustainability scientists researchers and practitioners using systemic and service design to articulate and visualise their proposals we will plot transition pathways on different levels with systemic mapping practices templates and timelines will be constructed as action plans in each sector these will also become a basis for evaluation systems to categorise levels and stages of transition the work will encourage best practice by creating classification systems to identify assess and communicate different levels and stages of sustainable transition we will start with household energy ecosystems we will design accessible outcomes to inform socio technological transformation of the entire sector across scales we will design evaluation and assessment communication systems to counter the deleterious impact of greenwashing with this work we will build capacities to envision develop and enact net zero proposals funded by the ahrc innovation scholars programme part of uk research and innovation project reference ah x005186 1 june 18 2023 by dr joanna boehnert categories climate change design uncategorized tags design for sustainability sustainability leave a comment reflecting on relating systems thinking and design rsd11 possibilities and practices of systemic design perhaps i am biased because i did my phd at this university but last month s relating systems thinking and design rsd11 possibilities and practices of systemic design at the university of brighton felt to me like the most ecologically engaged design conferences i have yet to attend the rsd11 community are working in a wide variety of ideas and practices for systemic design often this work includes a focus on justice oriented design for sustainable transitions rsd11 included an impressive stream on confronting legacies of oppression the systemic design research community now formally established as the systemic design association has developed theories and practices over the last decade that are now being advocated by the uk design council as a design approach for net zero there was so much good content i made some time to capture and share just a few moments ideas and reflections on key themes that i consider to be particularly relevant to current debates in design theory and education i will start with the tony fry one of strongest voices on designing viable futures in an era of planetary crises fry emphasises that we must be careful about the definition of sustainability to build capacity to move beyond sustaining the unsustainable which sadly characterises the defuturing work in much of the design industry today moving beyond defuturing practice will be done by redesigning design and depends on an expansive design practice and informed futuring based on critically and ecologically engaged design education this design education theme emerged in fry s keynote in response to a question by system design association s board chair silvia barbero the popularity of this theme is evidenced in dan lockton s popular tweet below and as a topic of conversation in the final panel and plenary judging by nearly two hundred people on twitter alone are concerned about the capacity of design education to deliver the types of knowledge needed to meet design challenges of the futures we discussed the narrow and instrumental focus of attention in some design schools and how this impacts our attempts to advance responsible design design for sustainability social design decolonising design etc on the topic of sustainability systemic design has recently been recognised as a means of addressing climate change by the uk design council in the beyond net zero a systemic design approach report numerous sessions presented strategies for redirecting designed worlds for dramatically reduced ghg emissions including my own mini workshop design s role in reproducing or even creating new discriminating structures and systems or alternatively creating liberatory ones was developed in the many sessions in the confronting legacies of oppression in systemic design stream social justice oriented ideas have made impressive progress over the last five years in design theory and this was very much evident in these sessions there was also time to consider some of the challenges this community faces now that our ideas are gaining some legitimacy in institutional spaces josina vink facilitated an intense fishbowl where tensions were discussed one particularly troublesome issue that arose in this space and a problem that exists as real threat to both the justice oriented design community and the sustainable design community is the issue of appropriation appropriation occurs where ideas generated in the margins of dominant discourses often by marginalised groups are extracted from the communities that have nurtured these ideas and practices decontextualised rinsed of their transformative potential and used in ways that destroy the value of the idea or practice some examples of appropriation could be where people who are not engaged in a field or in a particular social or environmental struggle assume they can re define key terms and typically do this in ways that undermine the concept and its potential to enable social change when an important sustainability or social justice concept is used in ways that undermines and or neutralises it when environmental ideas social justice concepts are used in inappropriate ways to greenwash or whitewash unsustainable or oppressive discriminatory and unethical practices when academics use the ideas and work of activist scholars without citation where progressive ideas are used as statements of intent or vision statements with no attempt to put the ideas into practice the list above is a partial list of the various ways that the appropriation of the language of justice and sustainability devalues the work of scholars and activists who leading these movements this list describes just a few ways appropriation can happen in academic spaces appropriation not only delays or wrecks progressive movements but it also harms individuals working often on the margins 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