Thanks for your comments and suggestions. It has been a very revealing weekend for me reading through all the links that you all have shared. The article "Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse" by Eli Blevis is very inspiring.
Mike Jones from Smart Design also recommended a few reading opportunities: 1. Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart 2. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by BJ Fogg 3. Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling 4. Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory B Lovins & L Hunter Lovins Besides, there are a few videos from TED which are pretty interesting. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/74 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/2 After reading the links that you%u2019ve shared, I started to rethink about my previous leads. No doubts, more and more people are paying attention in this area. Engineers, scientists, academics, governments, designers creating new technologies, new systems, new materials, new regulations, new products everyday trying to make the earth greener. But, to make it works we need the participation from the people (user). Now products designs are emerging into human centered design. If we make a little shift in this, and achieve sustainability not through material or manufacturing but through behaviour of people around products, what will happen? If we could have the ability to make a little change on people behaviour, maybe we could stimulate the people by influencing them rather than taking over control. For example the 2-stage-toilet-flush system gives people the choice of flushing. They are not forced but educated indirectly. Does this approach works? How can it be implemented more in design to achieve sustainability? It returns to my first few questions, what makes people participate more in sustainability? Is it feedback? I am not sure where am I heading with all these questions. I would like to find a way to achieve environmental sustainability through interaction design approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23145 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
