Ecological Design: A New Critique
Pauline Madge
Design Issues, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1997
Published in 1997, this paper tried to attempt to explain the context and definition of three related terms: green design, ecological design, and sustainable design.
Green Design
As a buzzword of the 1980s, “green” was used politics and marketing. In 1980’s “green markets and the [...]
Tag Archives: Sustainability
Ecological Design: A New Critique
The Dominant stances on Ecodesign: A Critique
The Dominant stances on Ecodesign: A Critique
Kate T.Fletcher and Philip A. Goggin
Design Issues: vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 2001
This paper tries to organize the broad clusters of ecodesign strategies according to three foci: product focus, result focus, and needs focus.
Product Focus
Making existing products more efficient
Often accompanying with trade-off with new features
Result Rocus
investigating the way existing [...]
Environmental Sustainability
Woodruff, A., Mankoff, J. “Environmental Sustainability,” IEEE, Pervasive Computing, 8(1), 18-21.
This short editorial presents four directions in the research of pervasive computing that promotes environmental sustainability. The four foci are:
Perishable goods supply chain: Pervasive technologies have great potential to improve the efficiency of this food supply chain. For example, the use of a sensor-based first-expire-first-out [...]
Virtual Eco-System
‘VisCoral’ represents the ecosystem changes in the Pacific Ocean. Our system allows users to explore the temporal changes of environmental data such as temperature, CO2 level, sea level and precipitation and their impact on the health of coral reefs and neighbor marine species such as coral fish. VisCoral is composed of multi-view interactive visualization, which [...]
Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption
T.G. Holmes, “Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity \& cognition, Washington, DC, USA: ACM, 2007, pp. 153-162.
Persuasion has been a one big issue in HCI community. Especially, sustainable design is the most highlighted so far. It deals with how technology and design motivate [...]