{"title":"Towards a post-anthropocene perspective on the welfare city: Public landscapes as green heritage","authors":"E. Braae, Signe Sophie Bøggild","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.011","url":null,"abstract":"The welfare city with its humanistic, anthropocentric and progressive design ideals of the good life and egalitarianism usually signifies the post-war welfare state’s tabula rasa suburbs with evergreen public landscapes as common ground for public happiness. \u0000 \u0000Inspired by the recent discourse of the anthropocene, we examine the welfare city’s materialisation in a wider perspective, as a relational assemblage of culturally significant landscapes, organised and administered by various institutions, legislations and vocabularies, to structure and stage a national vision of the good life. \u0000 \u0000We coin this as ‘the green heritage’; an umbrella term bridging the gap between perspectives of the anthropocentric, the anthropocene and a possible post-anthropocene era, both challenged and driven by climate change and urbanisation.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"46 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114122945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engaged sustainable design: Creating moral agency","authors":"L. S. Pierre","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper integrates my journeys into the wilderness of northern British Columbia and the Alberta Prairies with my reflections on the relationship of sustainable design theories with an ethical practice of sustainable design. Drawing on deep ecology, Buddhism, and animism, I contend that the drive within research to connect natural systems theories to design practice is inherently instrumental and eludes the truths of the natural world. Within the domain of sustainable design, this instrumentalism reinforces an anthropocentric worldview that, as humans, we are separate from and more important than the unboundaried ecology of animals, plants, minerals and elementals (earth, water, air, and fire). As designers, we have not yet reconciled our responsibility for a comprehensive philosophical approach to our work with a deep and abiding relationship with nature.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115864730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenge of a sustainability change: A designerly approach","authors":"T. Winkel, S. Poulsen, C. A. F. Rosenstand","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.013","url":null,"abstract":"Changing a company’s role and position in its context towards a more ambitious profile centred on waste minimisation can be challenging due to external factors such as regulations and economic logics, but also internal challenges of transforming visions into supporting activities can hinder the role change. \u0000 \u0000This paper focuses on the waste minimisation project Nulskrald (Zerowaste) initiated by AVV. The project has undergone two phases without fulfilling its vision. A designerly approach was applied in a strategic workshop as the company faced the launch of the third phase. Here the Actantial model and the Strategic Pyramid were applied and conjoined to enhance waste minimisation activities. As a result, the company enters a new role in which they are no longer just passive, active or interactive in their communication, but also provocative in order to affect citizens’ behaviour.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127194156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}