Browsing by Author "Stead, Michael"

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    Editorial: Sistenibilidad disruptiva: sociedad, innovación y futuros / Disruptive sustainability: society, innovation and futures
    (Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Diseño, 2024-11) Contreras Correa, Paulina; Toledo, Ignacio; Pérez Ojeda, David; Stead, Michael; Bakırlıoğlu, Yekta
    Climate change, driven by human activities, is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. Our excessive consumption and reliance on fossil fuels have brought us to a critical tipping point that demands immediate action towards more sustainable practices prioritising the climate crisis and social equity. This special issue aims to explore how design can contribute to accelerating transitions towards sustainable futures. It focuses on developing more sustainable solutions and practices and on how these can displace unsustainable incumbent solutions. This raises new questions regarding co-design methods in social sustainability, which may affect the adoption and accessibility of sustainable solutions, ensuring they are equitable and just. Moreover, it explores how design collaborations can be structured within open-sustainable design networks and how design can be strategically directed to promote paths for innovation towards desired sustainable futures
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    Futuros cero neto más que humanos: diseño participativo disruptivo para un planeta sostenible y equitativo / More-than-Human Net Zero Futures: Disruptive Participatory Design for A Sustainable Equitable Planet
    (Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Diseño, 2024-11) Stead, Michael
    From industry through policymaking to academia, much prevailing sustainability discourse focusses on transitioning to a so-called ‘Net Zero future’. Central to this vision is mitigation of human-driven climate change through the decarbonisation of industrial society, principally via increased innovation and adoption of emergent technologies. This paper argues Design Research must pivot from these reductive, solutionist narratives, and develop a disruptive yet inclusive approach towards designing for Net Zero. In response to the complexity of climate change, this paper proposes a novel conceptual frame that helps designer-practitioners to challenge the unsustainable technocentric status quo. Built upon a confluence of Speculative, Participatory and More-than-Human-Centred methods, the paper outlines how this approach can stimulate close collaboration between designers and stakeholder networks. The paper asserts that, through this scaffold, designer-practitioners can reimagine responsible technological Net Zero futures which are inherently More-than-Human, that is, sustainable and equitable for our planet’s human and non-human stakeholders alike.

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