The Designer's Role in Facilitating Sustainable Solutions

摘要: Introduction Sustainability is rapidly becoming an issue of critical importance for designers and society as a whole. A complexity dynamically interrelated ecological, social, cultural, economic, psychological (awareness) problems interact converge in the current crisis our unsustainable civilization. However, constantly changing environment, sustainability not some ultimate endpoint, but instead continuous process learning adaptation. Designing only requires redesign habits, lifestyles, practices, also way we think about design. coevolution co-design that involves diverse communities making flexible adaptable design decisions on local, regional, global scales. The transition towards co-creating human civilization flourishes within ecological limits planetary life support system. Design fundamental to all activity. At nexus values, attitudes, needs, actions, have potential act transdisciplinary integrators facilitators. map value systems perspectives described by Beck Cowan 1 “Spiral Dynamics” can serve tool facilitating “transdisciplinary dialogue.” Such dialogue will help integrate multiple knowledge base different disciplines, systems, stakeholders. Further expansion “integral vision” Wilber 2 consolidates framework understanding, acknowledging, weaving together worldviews. Esbjorn-Hargens Brown 3 describe application this solving complex local relevance, sustainable development. When applied design, kind us conceptualize how onto-epistemological assumptions change experience reality, therefore intentionality behind This why things processes turn affects what Since widespread participation, everywhere need begin shape visions sustainability, offer strategies engage humanity collectively cooperative D. C.C. Cowan, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, Change (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996). K. Wilber, Theory Everything: An Integral Vision Business, Politics, Science Spirituality (Dublin: Gateway, 2001). S. Esbjorn-Hargens, “Integral Ecology: What, Who, How Environmental Phenomena” “World Futures,” Journal General Evolution 61:1–2 (2005): 5–49; B.C. Brown, “Theory Practice Sustainable Development (Part 1),” AQAL 1:2 (2006): 1–39.