Responsible Design: Design Methods for Anthropocentric Sustainable Futures

Finding a state of sustainability in which present and future human generations may have equal opportunity in perpetuity is an anthropocentric pursuit. It requires intergenerational equity in everything we do, including how we design the products, systems, and companies we build and use. Responsible Design is a new methodology that helps provide the structure designers need to develop sustainable solutions. It is an evolved version of Human Centered Design, a methodology that although well-intentioned can deliver solutions with dangerous effects on the environment. Responsible Design uses frameworks that consider the current climate change crisis across scales, the ethical concerns it poses across generations, and the viability of solutions across environmental, social, and economic dimensions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

System Design and Management Program.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Quirós Balma, Andrea

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Gustowski, Timothy
• Plata, Desiree

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• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

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• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151231

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/151231