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Co-designing for sustainability: strategising community carbon emission reduction through socio-ecological innovation

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Date
22/04/2016
Author
White, Rehema Mary
van Koten, Hamid
Keywords
Co-design
Sustainability
Social innovation
Socio-ecological innovation
Climate change
Community
Local government
GE Environmental Sciences
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
NDAS
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Abstract
Designing for sustainability requires us to intentionally and creatively explore and implement radical changes in social as well as environmental arenas. This paper reflects on an interdisciplinary, action research project in which we applied principles and tools of co-creation to facilitate knowledge mobilization between three diverse stakeholder groups: community groups,local authorities (LAs) and academics from diverse disciplines. Our goal was the development of a Community Engagement Strategy for Carbon Emission Reduction for a Scottish Local Authority.Our methodological approach included ethnographic and participatory methods; seminars; strategy prototyping; and shared governance processes. It was concluded that our project provoked ‘social innovation’ by catalysing a value shift in the organizations involved, but that the concept of ‘socio-ecological innovation’ would be more useful in designing for sustainability. This project demonstrates the strategic role designers can play in transcending the constraints of the current consumerist paradigm to co-create a better future.
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White , R M & van Koten , H 2016 , ' Co-designing for sustainability: strategising community carbon emission reduction through socio-ecological innovation ' , Design Journal , vol. 19 , no. 1 , pp. 25-46 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2015.1064219
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Design Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2015.1064219
ISSN
1460-6925
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 Informa UK ltd. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2015.1064219
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This work was supported by Fife Council [RES-809-19-0021].
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11920

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