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Title: | Affordances, constraints and information flows as ‘leverage points’ in design for sustainable behaviour |
Authors: | Lockton, D |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Social Science Research Network |
Citation: | Working Paper Series, No. 2120901, Apr 2012 |
Abstract: | Two of Donella Meadows' 'leverage points' for intervening in systems (1999) seem particularly pertinent to design for sustainable behaviour, in the sense that designers may have the scope to implement them in (re-)designing everyday products and services. The 'rules of the system' -- interpreted here to refer to affordances and constraints -- and the structure of information flows both offer a range of opportunities for design interventions to in fluence behaviour change, and in this paper, some of the implications and possibilities are discussed with reference to parallel concepts from within design, HCI and relevant areas of psychology. |
Description: | Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic Publishing |
URI: | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2120901 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6710 |
Appears in Collections: | Design Publications Brunel Design School Research Papers |
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