How to design sustainable solutions
The transition towards sustainability calls for a radical change, i.e. a systemic discontinuity. At a local scale, to promote this discontinuity means to generate low material intensive and highly context-related socio-technical systems. In this framework the role of design is to promote this discontinuity and to conceive and develop these system.
The paper articulates the above statement, outlines the related design problems and, in particular, discusses what it means to conceive, produce and deliver sustainable solutions……