1. Digitalisation for sustainability
The biodiversity conservation efforts, optimisation of resources, reduction of waste, and minimisation of energy consumption, leading to cost-effective and efficient outcomes.
Planetary Service Design
Include the Planetary Lens to Your Design Work
This is service and business design through a planetary lens – to also address the environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and pollution when developing things.
The approach is two-fold:
2. Sustainable digital service concepts and solutions
Ensuring that the outcomes and utilisation of data, 3D modelling, IoT, Virtual Reality, and AI-driven insights, are designed with sustainability in mind and adhering to the regulations linked to environmental standards and requirements.
Planetary service design has an essential role in addressing the environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and pollution.
Principles
1. Less harm, more positive impact
Foster awareness of environmental impact, including emissions, biodiversity, air, water, and soil. Think about how to make a positive impact. Utilise frameworks such as Doughnut Economics.
2. Nudge towards sustainable behaviour
To succeed, it’s essential to understand how your core audiences behaviour relates to sustainability and set measurable goals to act accordingly
3. Take a non-human perspective
Add the non-human stakeholders (animals, environment, communities, invisible humans along the supply-chain, etc.) into the design process.
4. Emphasise circular thinking
Consider the whole life-cycle of your product and design outcomes that last e.g. can be updated, shared and reused by others. Prioritise sufficiency, repairability, and efficiency in digital infrastructure and devices.
5. Don't forget endineering
Don’t forget the end of the life-cycle. Design better endings for digital services by helping users to clear up the data.
6. Be honest
Sounds easy, but it’s tricky. Avoid green claims and green washing in communication, actions, and dark patterns that lure the user to do something not beneficial for her or the world around her.
Utilise the Checklist to Evaluate and Consider the Qualities of Your Work
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Contents:
- Theme introduction & Principles
- Checklists for the 4 themes to evaluate your work with
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