Bottom-Up, Whole System, Sustainable Design gets a Plug
An intriguing discussion and book about what the future might hold - including HCI ...
"It was an impassioned John Thackara of Amsterdam-based Doors of Perception, launching his book "In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World", that addressed a mixed audience at the Design Council, London. Doctors and care workers had joined art school lecturers and HCI specialists to hear his trademark ideas for bottom-up, sustainable, people-centred design. They were not disappointed.
'Enable human agency,' he began, outlining his principles and suggesting that, however implicitly, these are principles that we all share. Criticising the idea of disintermediation and its new metamorphosis as the self-service economy, he talked about design to enable sharing, giving the example of the 'walking bus' idea that now gets children the world over to school without cars and with only a couple of parents, on rota, in attendance. He advocated taking into account the whole system and looking for solutions that were closer rather than faster, arguing for decreased mobility, all things being equal (which, he added, they are not)." continued ... (Via Usability News)
"It was an impassioned John Thackara of Amsterdam-based Doors of Perception, launching his book "In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World", that addressed a mixed audience at the Design Council, London. Doctors and care workers had joined art school lecturers and HCI specialists to hear his trademark ideas for bottom-up, sustainable, people-centred design. They were not disappointed.
'Enable human agency,' he began, outlining his principles and suggesting that, however implicitly, these are principles that we all share. Criticising the idea of disintermediation and its new metamorphosis as the self-service economy, he talked about design to enable sharing, giving the example of the 'walking bus' idea that now gets children the world over to school without cars and with only a couple of parents, on rota, in attendance. He advocated taking into account the whole system and looking for solutions that were closer rather than faster, arguing for decreased mobility, all things being equal (which, he added, they are not)." continued ... (Via Usability News)
In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World
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