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Ecocene design economies: Three ecologies of systems transitions
journal contribution
posted on 2019-04-05, 09:37 authored by Joanna BoehnertDespite accumulative social and technological innovation, the design industry continues to face significant obstacles when addressing issues of sustainability. Climate change and other systemic ecological problems demands shifts on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business-as-usual. I will argue that these complex problems require addressing the epistemological error in knowledge systems reproducing unsustainable designed worlds. Ecological literacy is a basis for nature-inspired design. Ecologically engaged knowledge must inform design strategies across the psychological, the social and the environmental domains. With the expansive three ecologies perspective, interventions at the intersection of design and economics can enable systems transitions. This theoretical work informs a framing of the current epoch in ways that create a foundation for the creation of regenerative, distributed and redirected design economies.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- Arts
Published in
The Design Journal Journal. An International Journal for All Aspects of DesignVolume
22Issue
sup1Pages
1735-1745Citation
BOEHNERT, J., 2019. Ecocene design economies: Three ecologies of systems transitions. The Design Journal. An International Journal for All Aspects of Design, 22 (sup1), pp.1735-1745.Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group © The AuthorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Design Journal Journal on 31 May 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2019.1595005Acceptance date
2019-03-29Publication date
2019-05-31Notes
This paper was presented at the 13th International European Academy of Design Conference: Running with scissors (EAD 2019), Dundee, 10th- 12th April.ISSN
1460-6925eISSN
1756-3062Publisher version
Language
- en