Design Dialogues: An exploratory study of design narratives, methodologies and tools towards achieving Factor 10 outcomes

关于是否需要对生产和消费的环境影响采取更长期的办法，现在有越来越多的辩论。最近的研究强调了这样一个事实，即工业化水平的消费(占世界人口20%的人使用地球80%的资源)正迅速被发展中国家采用。这一趋势是不可持续的，因为地球无法支持资源消耗的这种净增长。为了避免这种情况，建议在今后50年内将资源使用量减少90%(系数10)。这意味着我们(工业化国家)将只需要使用目前所用资源的10%来满足不断增长的人口的未来需求。设计活动是如何构思和使用产品、服务和系统的核心。该项目旨在调查设计策略如何发展，以支持90%的资源使用减少。这将涉及到对资源使用的性质和数量以及我们对资源的社会态度的了解。它将把目前对效率的关注转移到同时解决当前消费文化的问题上。研究将集中于探索设计师和决策者的态度和活动，以发展新的方法和工具，将因素10方法整合到设计过程中。研究成果将通过一系列访谈、重点小组和以行动为基础的研讨会得到发展。最初，这些项目将调查目前对环境设计的概念和态度，然后将利用作为项目核心部分开发的一系列不同的刺激和工具，利用研究讲习班的方法，在更广泛的可持续性背景下探索设计。这项研究旨在探索性地概述新的叙事、方法和工具，以调查设计战略和活动中因素10的改进水平。该项目得到了英国设计委员会和EPSRC资助的可持续设计网络的支持。与会者将来自多个行业部门和高等教育机构。其目的是，研究结果将导致在商业和教育背景下实施因素10设计活动的网络指南。其他产出将包括学术和以贸易为基础的出版物。EPSRC为这一为期三年的项目申请的资金总额为118,334英镑。该提案与EPSRC的以下主题优先事项相关联：“以人为本的系统”，设想提高所有人的生活质量的新产品和系统；以及“工程和科学促进可持续发展”，研究可持续思维的概念，以实现产品、工艺和系统的阶段性改进。

There is now a growing debate concerning the need for a longer-term approach to the environmental impacts of production and consumption. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that industrialised levels of consumption (with 20% of the World population using 80% of the Earth's resources) are rapidly being adopted by developing nations. This trend is unsustainable with the Earth unable to support such net increases in resource consumption. To avoid this scenario it is suggested that in the next fifty years a 90% (Factor 10) reduction in resource use will be called for. This means that we (industrialised nations) will need to use just 10% of the resources we currently use today to meet the future needs of a growing population.The activity of design is central to how products, services and systems are conceived and used. This project aims to investigate how design strategies can evolve to support a 90% decrease in resource use. This will involve both an understanding of the nature and quantity of resource use and also of our social attitudes towards resources. It will shift the current focus on efficiency to one that also addresses current cultures of consumption. The research will focus on exploring the attitudes and activities of designers and decision-makers to evolve new methods and tools for integrating Factor 10 approaches in the design process. Research findings will evolve through a number of interviews, focus groups and action-based workshops. Initially these will investigate current concepts and attitudes to design for the environment The research workshop methodology will then be used to explore design in a broader context of sustainability using a range of different stimuli and tools developed as a core part of the project. The research aims to deliver an exploratory overview of new narratives, methodologies and tools for investigating factor 10 levels of improvement in both strategies and activities of design.The project is supported by the UK Design Council and the EPSRC funded Sustainable Design Network. It will involve participants from a range of industry sectors and Higher Education institutions. It is intended that the research findings will result in a web-guide to implementing Factor 10 design activity in both business and educational contexts. Other outputs will include academic and trade-based publications. The total EPSRC funding award requested for this three-year project is 118,334.The proposal links to the following EPSRC thematic priorities: 'Human-Centred Systems' in envisaging new products and systems that enhance quality of life for all; and 'Engineering and Science for Sustainability in investigating concepts of sustainable thinking towards step-change improvements in products, processes and systems.