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esign 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approaches to sustainable transitions and greenwashing discourses is a battleground in many design institutions outdated priorities ideas and structures need to be challenged the ways of thinking and doing that led to our current crises are not fit for purpose yet ecologically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 for social change appropriation was a dominant theme in the fishbowl as those who have been involved with building capacity for social change in design witness the appropriation of their work also speaking to the theme of justice was lesley ann noel who described the work of moving beyond good intentions learning how to see oppression so we don t reproduce it noel highlighted arturo escobar s version of the pluriverse in design theory and asked could design be guided by different design principles noel presented her positionality wheel as a tool to prompt reflection and better understand power agency and relationality another highlight was mathilda tham s keynote with her earth logic proposal and metadesign practice there were many helpful reflections here the idea about the importance of self definition see below for feminist designers struck me as particularly helpful and echos noel s ideas on positionality especially for designers who are advocating on behalf of traditionally marginalised groups danah abdula described the contradictions of sustainability in graphic design this keynote illustrated the various ways graphic design is so complicit with greenwashing but also potentially able to help re imagine and remake the material world abdula s presentation illustrated the politics in communication design and how agency is diminished with uncritical approaches to communication design the article against performative positivity captures these themes in more detail peter stoyko presented his new pattern atlas that i highly recommend checking out for those interested in systems and or illustration there are lots of creative commons resources here that can be freely used in systems mapping and other work also see chantal spencer s paper on participatory research with insights on inclusive practices finally system design association s board chair silvia barbero discussed the role of designers and systemic design in planetary health using the planetary health framework she played the nature is speaking video below i am sharing here as a good example of story telling on the environment for rsd11 colleagues please forgive me but i can only capture a few moments of so much good content this blog is very partial i have not even made time to describe my own mini workshops on net zero or a second one on design education these were good too i want to thank the whole team at the university of brighton for hosting such a great event also thanks to everyone involved with building the systemic design association from scratch over the last 11 years i have learned to much from this community since i attended rsd1 is olso and this was probably the best conference yet papers and posters are on the sda website november 4 2022 by dr joanna boehnert categories design education feminism systemic design uncategorized leave a comment beyond anthropocene ontopolitics last week i presented a keynote at the design history society annual 2022 conference in ismir turkey on the theme of design and transience my talk was called design history and design futures beyond anthropocene ontopolitics i used the time to consider how design history might look at design artefacts and designed systems if we were to consider all design through the lens of ecological entanglement this is not a minor difference from the current way of thinking about design design has a pivotal role to play in creating new sustainable ways of living on this planet but changing direction in design involves moving away from some of the assumptions that are propelling unsustainable and defuturing design practice design is evolving in response to debates that have emerged over the past 50 years as the sciences the social sciences and the arts integrate ecologically engaged ways of knowing into knowledge systems that have traditionally erased the ecological this theory can inform the dialogue between design history and design futures examining the assumptions embedded in ideas priorities and value systems that inform design history we can potentially create space for new agencies for regenerative design futures in response to feedback i received at the conference i am going to develop the paper by applying the theory to some historic examples of good design if we apply a lens consistent with anthropocene ontopolitics many examples of good design will need to be re evaluated i am interested in your opinions readers so if you have any examples of design artefacts that should be evaluated through the lens of ecological entanglement please feel free to comment below or message me i ve uploaded 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