Search for dissertations about: "sustainable design"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 662 swedish dissertations containing the words sustainable design.
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6. Designing Together: A Frugal Design Approach. Exploring Participatory Design in a Global North-South Cooperation Context
Abstract : Since the turn of the millennium, participatory designers have increasingly begun to engage in collaborative research processes in the so-called Global South, targeting sustainable development. The quest is to take on the larger challenges through cooperative work, and such a design process is here referred to as Global North–South cooperation. READ MORE
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7. On the other side of change : Exploring the role that design can play in retaining sustainable doings
Abstract : The world keeps changing more rapidly. Induced by context change disruptions such as individual life-course changes and macro socio-economical events, the way people carry out their everyday life doings is also undergoing a dynamic transition process, which may open up windows of opportunity for design to transit people’s behavior in a more sustainable direction. READ MORE
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8. Sharing The Design Authorship Of Sustainability : Towards co-creation of sustainable transport systems and practices
Abstract : Any separation between technology and society can be claimed to be artificial. Technological material systems are intertwined with human everyday life practices and ways of living, values, and belief systems. When we design and develop new technological systems, we are also designing opportunities for new daily living practices to emerge. READ MORE
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9. Designing with Urban Sound : Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment
Abstract : The licentiate thesis Designing with Urban Sound explores the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. READ MORE
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10. Solarscape: The power of humanity in designing solar imaginaries, entangled worlds, and critical sustainable futures
Abstract : Solarscape is a thesis on the phenomenology of the Solar – an experiential, relational, and critical approach to how humans and humanity world-with solar energy in its different forms and manifestations. Using solar panels as a central artefact of concern, I explore surrounding human and non-human relationships through situated individual and collaborative design practices: workshops, interviews, (auto)ethnography, to name a few. READ MORE