Nonlinear, not Necessarily Circular, Design for Sustainability
(2021) In Diploma work IDEM05 20211Industrial Design
- Abstract
- This project has been an exploration into how sustainability is understood
and its challenges framed within design. But the reader undertaking the
task of going through this document will find more about carrying in urban
transportation which has been the area of application.
Probing the underlying assumptions upon which our solutions toward a
sustainable future rest, the research identifies the trio of classical social theory,
a reductionist approach and domination as an outlook to be at the root of our
failure to transform our ways of life. In an attempt to undertake a nonlinear
design for sustainability, the project takes the rejection of these assumptions
as the basis from which it explores the area of carrying in... (More) - This project has been an exploration into how sustainability is understood
and its challenges framed within design. But the reader undertaking the
task of going through this document will find more about carrying in urban
transportation which has been the area of application.
Probing the underlying assumptions upon which our solutions toward a
sustainable future rest, the research identifies the trio of classical social theory,
a reductionist approach and domination as an outlook to be at the root of our
failure to transform our ways of life. In an attempt to undertake a nonlinear
design for sustainability, the project takes the rejection of these assumptions
as the basis from which it explores the area of carrying in urban transportation.
Studying the phenomenon of car-dependence, it unveils the perceptions
around the notion of carrying that have been shaped over the last decades
with the assumption of the car as the default mode of transport within the
city. Different groups of people can be ‘carless’ for a variety or combination
of reasons; ideology, lack of financial or spatial capacity for owning a car,
living in areas without adequate road development, being under-aged for
driving, etc. These groups may walk, skate, scoot, cycle, ride buses, trams,
trains or monorails to get to places they want to go. Yet with them they carry
products that are designed within a picture of the urban setting in which cars
are indispensable and indisputable. Thus, by being complicit to this image
of transportation, designers are increasingly delegating the control of how
we move ourselves, others, objects, and indeed how we organize the urban
environment and ourselves as a society, to cars and the unsustainability
surrounding them.
The outcome of the project is a two part solution for additional carrying
capacity for cycling without imposing an inclusive space on the bicycle or
requiring sturdy bags furnished with bulky attachment elements. This outcome
is used to sketch out a potential set of elements by which vehicles and
carrying products can have a more active relationship with each other and us
in order to decouple the wide variety of products and systems in the transport
landscape from the ubiquitous influence of cars. (Less)
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- author
- Amiri Rigi, Sheida
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IDEM05 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- publication/series
- Diploma work
- report number
- LUT-DVIDE/ EX--21/50540-SE
- other publication id
- ISRN
- language
- English
- id
- 9050817
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abstract = {{This project has been an exploration into how sustainability is understood
and its challenges framed within design. But the reader undertaking the
task of going through this document will find more about carrying in urban
transportation which has been the area of application.
Probing the underlying assumptions upon which our solutions toward a
sustainable future rest, the research identifies the trio of classical social theory,
a reductionist approach and domination as an outlook to be at the root of our
failure to transform our ways of life. In an attempt to undertake a nonlinear
design for sustainability, the project takes the rejection of these assumptions
as the basis from which it explores the area of carrying in urban transportation.
Studying the phenomenon of car-dependence, it unveils the perceptions
around the notion of carrying that have been shaped over the last decades
with the assumption of the car as the default mode of transport within the
city. Different groups of people can be ‘carless’ for a variety or combination
of reasons; ideology, lack of financial or spatial capacity for owning a car,
living in areas without adequate road development, being under-aged for
driving, etc. These groups may walk, skate, scoot, cycle, ride buses, trams,
trains or monorails to get to places they want to go. Yet with them they carry
products that are designed within a picture of the urban setting in which cars
are indispensable and indisputable. Thus, by being complicit to this image
of transportation, designers are increasingly delegating the control of how
we move ourselves, others, objects, and indeed how we organize the urban
environment and ourselves as a society, to cars and the unsustainability
surrounding them.
The outcome of the project is a two part solution for additional carrying
capacity for cycling without imposing an inclusive space on the bicycle or
requiring sturdy bags furnished with bulky attachment elements. This outcome
is used to sketch out a potential set of elements by which vehicles and
carrying products can have a more active relationship with each other and us
in order to decouple the wide variety of products and systems in the transport
landscape from the ubiquitous influence of cars.}},
author = {{Amiri Rigi, Sheida}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
series = {{Diploma work}},
title = {{Nonlinear, not Necessarily Circular, Design for Sustainability}},
year = {{2021}},
}