a sustainable design fiction: green practices
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A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green Practices
Ron Wakkary, Professor SIAT, Simon Fraser University
ID, Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e)
R. Yang, M. Newman, and J. Forlizzi. 2014. Making sustainability sustainable: challenges in the design of eco-interaction technologies. CHI '14. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 823-832.
Practice-oriented design
• Theories of Practice and Everyday Design • Green DIY as practitioners • Imaginative practices and design fictions • Reimagine role of designers and
interaction design
My Story Today
Theories of Practice We are all practitioners
Everyday Design Everyone is a designer
design-in-use
R. Wakkary and L. Maestri. 2007. The resourcefulness of everyday design. C&C '07. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 163-172
Everyday Design Multiplicity of design practices
A. Desjardins and R. Wakkary. 2013. Manifestations of everyday design: guiding goals and motivations. C&C '13, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 253-262.
J. Tanenbaum, K. Tanenbaum, and R. Wakkary. 2012. Steampunk as design fiction. CHI '12. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1583-1592.
Practices are social Embodied, dynamic, temporal
Materials “things, technologies, tangible physical entities, and the stuff of which
objects are made”;
Competences “encompass skill[s], know-how and technique[s]”
Meanings “include symbolic meanings, ideas and aspirations”
Shove, Panzer, & Watson, The Dynamics of Social Practice (2012)
Materials: skateboards, streets and other spaces, the body,
Competences: bodily competences, knowing how to use the streets, to do tricks, norms and rules to the practice
Meanings: what skateboarding means to practitioners and outsiders, subcultural
context
Our Study of Green DIY• Initial review of 17 websites • In-depth analysis of 5 green-DIY websites:
Crafting a Green World, Green Upgrader, Instructables, Planet Green, & Simple Organic
• Analyzed blog posts, tutorials, & comments • Conducted email questionnaires with authors &
readers from the 5 websites
R. Wakkary, A. Desjardins, S. Hauser, and L. Maestri. 2013. A sustainable design fiction: Green practices. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 20, 4, Article 23.
Meaning means everything
“[A] clear, guiding philosophy through which you can mediate between your sometimes competing identities as an environmentally conscious person and as a person who thinks crafting up cool stuff is awesome.”
Meaning means everything
• Vegan options for beeswax
• Create natural glue
Materials are linked to meaning
Learn new competences and share with others to promote sustainability
Competences are developed to fit the meaning
“Since I've been digging up info about eco-friendly roof options, I thought I'd share what I found with you guys!”
Competences are developed to fit the meaning
Meaning means everything
Materials are linked to meaning
Competences are developed to fit the meaning
Green DIY Practice Relationships
Design Fictions - DIY
Design Fiction
Bleecker, J. (2009). Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction.
Vertical Gardens
Patrick Blanc
Bridgman Furniture and Outdoor Living Blog
“‘Vertical gardens’ have gained a lot of notoriety over recent years with designers such as Patrick Blanc setting the standards. […] Below I would like to show you how you can create your own vertical garden using a wooden pallet.”
Reimagine Means of Practices
Practice-oriented design “hybrid” designer
Intermediary role between design and practices
Biosphere Farm Philips Design Probes Program
MalthusConceptual Devices, Antonio Scarponi
Collapse informatics
Bill Tomlinson, M. Six Silberman, Donald Patterson, Yue Pan, and Eli Blevis. 2012. Collapse informatics: augmenting the sustainability & ICT4D discourse in HCI. CHI ’12.
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 655-664.
J. Norton, A. J. Stringfellowy, J. J. LaViola Jr.z , B. Penzenstadler and B.Tomlinson
Domestic Plant Guild Composerhttp://cibyg.com/pgc/composer/
Discussion of the emergence of "lists, lists, lists" (Jacqui's reminder system).
The Medium of DIY Tutorials
R. Wakkary, M. Schilling, M. Dalton, S. Hauser, A. Desjardins. Submitted 2015. Tutorial Authorship and Hybrid Designers: The Joy (and Frustration) of DIY Tutorials. CHI ’15.
Practice-oriented design
Rethinking interaction design artifacts and interactions
Discussion of the emergence of "lists, lists, lists" (Jacqui's reminder system).
Discussion of the emergence of "lists, lists, lists" (Jacqui's reminder system).
Discussion of the emergence of "lists, lists, lists" (Jacqui's reminder system).
R. Wakkary, A. Desjardins, S. Hauser. Unselfconscious interaction: a conceptual construct. Interact Comput, accepted and forthcoming
