Designing sustainable sanitation: Involving design in innovative, transdisciplinary research

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• 作者：Abby Mellick Lopes^a ; ^{a.lopes@uws.edu.au} ; Dena Fam^b ; Jennifer Williams^b
• 关键词：Sustainable sanitation ; Design research ; Design education ; User participation ; Graphic design
• 刊名：Design Studies
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：45_0142694x
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：33
• 期：3
• 页码：298-317
• 文件大小：1160 K

摘要

This paper introduces an innovative pilot project where an alternative system of sanitation to capture, treat and reuse urine in agricultural trials is being undertaken in a university setting. The paper outlines the emerging theory and practise of Transition Management (TM) and identifies a lack of attention to the end-user in transition experiments to date. This project situates design as a core component in the social process of transitioning to a novel system of sanitation. Students across two design schools developed visual prototypes to introduce the project to the target audiences, which were tested during a pre-pilot installation. Initial results support the guiding hypothesis that design has a critical role to play in facilitating social learning in system innovation.