1. A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green
Practices
Ron Wakkary, Professor
SIAT, Simon Fraser University
ID, Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e)
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3. R. Yang, M. Newman, and J. Forlizzi. 2014. Making sustainability sustainable:
challenges in the design of eco-interaction technologies. CHI '14. ACM, New York, NY,
USA, 823-832.
6. My Story Today
• Theories of Practice and Everyday Design
• Green DIY as practitioners
• Imaginative practices and design fictions
• Reimagine role of designers and
interaction design
8. Everyday Design
Everyone is a designer
design-in-use
R. Wakkary and L. Maestri. 2007. The resourcefulness of everyday design. C&C
'07. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 163-172
9. Everyday Design
Multiplicity of design practices
A. Desjardins and R. Wakkary. 2013. Manifestations of everyday design: guiding
goals and motivations. C&C '13, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 253-262.
J. Tanenbaum, K. Tanenbaum, and R. Wakkary. 2012. Steampunk as design
fiction. CHI '12. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1583-1592.
11. Materials “things, technologies, tangible
physical entities, and the stuff of which
objects are made”;
Competences “encompass skill[s], know-how
and technique[s]”
Meanings “include symbolic meanings,
ideas and aspirations”
Shove, Panzer, & Watson, The Dynamics of Social Practice (2012)
12. Materials: skateboards, streets and
other spaces, the body,
Competences: bodily competences,
knowing how to use the streets, to do
tricks, norms and rules to the practice
Meanings: what skateboarding means to
practitioners and outsiders, subcultural
context
13. Our Study of Green DIY
• Initial review of 17 websites
• In-depth analysis of 5 green-DIY websites:
Crafting a Green World, Green Upgrader,
Instructables, Planet Green, & Simple Organic
• Analyzed blog posts, tutorials, & comments
• Conducted email questionnaires with authors &
readers from the 5 websites
R. Wakkary, A. Desjardins, S. Hauser, and L. Maestri. 2013. A sustainable design
fiction: Green practices. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 20, 4, Article 23.
15. Meaning means everything
“[A] clear, guiding philosophy through which
you can mediate between your sometimes
competing identities as an environmentally
conscious person and as a person who thinks
crafting up cool stuff is awesome.”
16. Materials are linked to meaning
• Vegan options
for beeswax
• Create natural
glue
17. Competences are developed to fit
the meaning
Learn new competences and share
with others to promote sustainability
18. Competences are developed to fit
the meaning
“Since I've been digging up info about
eco-friendly roof options, I thought I'd
share what I found with you guys!”
19. Green DIY Practice
Relationships
Meaning means everything
Materials are linked to meaning
Competences are developed to fit
the meaning
23. “‘Vertical gardens’ have gained a lot of
notoriety over recent years with designers
such as Patrick Blanc setting the standards.
[…] Below I would like to show you how you
can create your own vertical garden using a
wooden pallet.”
Bridgman Furniture and Outdoor Living Blog
29. Collapse informatics
Bill Tomlinson, M. Six Silberman, Donald Patterson, Yue Pan, and Eli Blevis. 2012.
Collapse informatics: augmenting the sustainability & ICT4D discourse in HCI. CHI ’12.
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 655-664.
30. Domestic Plant Guild Composer
http://cibyg.com/pgc/composer/
J. Norton, A. J. Stringfellowy, J. J. LaViola Jr.z , B. Penzenstadler and B.Tomlinson
31. The Medium of DIY
Tutorials
Discussion of the emergence of "lists, lists, lists" (Jacqui's
reminder system).
R. Wakkary, M. Schilling, M. Dalton, S. Hauser, A. Desjardins. Submitted 2015. Tutorial
Authorship and Hybrid Designers: The Joy (and Frustration) of DIY Tutorials. CHI ’15.
