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TU Delft: SusHouse Methodology - 0 views

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  • pjt111 taylor on 29 Sep 12
     
    " The SusHouse methodology is in essence a combination of creativity workshops and scenario building together with stakeholders. The methodology has been inspired to a large extend by the methodology developed in the Sustainable Technological Development (STD) Programme of the Netherlands (1992-1997), and in this Programme by the project Sustainable Washing. An important element of the methodology is called 'Back-casting' (think backwards from a desirable or unavoidable future situation). Like in the STD Programme the premise of the project is that in the long term (50 years) a drastic reduction of environmental burden is necessary (factor 20). This reduction will not be reached by just incremental technological innovations. More drastic technological as well as socio-cultural and organisational changes will be necessary. The hypothesis in the project is that there are interesting opportunities for instance in the concepts of sharing, leasing and service-products. The project consists of the following steps: 1. Investigation of functions in countries (Jan 98-Aug 98) 2. Expert interviews and stakeholder enrolling (Jan 98 - Dec 98) 3. Creativity and backcasting workshops with experts and stakeholders (Nov 98-Jan 99) 4. Scenario-building (Jan 99 - Feb 99) 5. Assessment of the scenario's (Feb 99 - Sep 99) 6. Follow Up workshops with experts and stakeholders (Oct 99 - Dec 99) 7. Reporting and spinn-off (Jan 2000 - June 2000) The scenario assessments are threefold: 1. Analysis of environmental gains and impacts (contact information) 2. Assessment of economic consequences and viability (contact information) 3. Assessment of consumer acceptance (contact information) Each of the three SusHouse household functions (Shopping, Cooking and Eating; Clothing Care; Shelter) is being researched in three countries: SCE Clothing Care Shelter Italy X X UK X X Netherlands X X Hungary X Germany X X
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JOTS v26n1 - Appropriate Technology for Socioeconomic Development in Third World Countries - 0 views

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  • Worsening socioeconomic conditions in the Third World have underscored the urgency of implementing a development path that de-emphasizes growth and technological monoculture. The technological orientation of this development paradigm has been variously called intermediate, progressive, alternative, light-capital, labor-intensive, indigenous, appropriate, low-cost, community, soft, radical, liberatory, and convivial technology. However, appropriate technology, for reasons to be addressed later, has emerged as the allembracing rubric representing the viewpoints associated with all the other terms.
  • From Gandhi's perspective, any concern with goods requires mass production, but concern with people necessitates production by the masses. The Charkha (spinning wheel) was Gandhi's ideal appropriate technology device, and he saw in it a symbol of freedom, self-reliance, and a technical means that was right for India. The idea of technology discriminately enriching a minority of people at the expense of the majority or putting masses of people out of work to increase profit was in Gandhi's view counterproductive and unacceptable. However, Gandhi was not uncompromising in his rejection of large-scale, capital-intensive industrial enterprises. Modern-sector industrial development, in Gandhi's view, should supplement and reinforce the development of small-scale industries and agriculture in the hinterland.
  • The rationale was that with appropriate technology the chances of its acceptance by those for whom it was intended would be greatly improved.
  • lauraart7 on 28 Aug 17
     
    Convivial in the context of third world, synonyms of CT, labor industry, production and job economy, class/caste power : highlighted example "appropriate technology" Gandhi to Schumacher to Intermediate Development Technology Group (ITDG) and subsequent movement
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Scale Up Your Startup - 0 views

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    " Startups fail to scale up because without the right tools, resistance takes them out. Every startup faces the resistance of risk, confusion, opportunity, and fear. How leaders deal with these issues often spell the difference between success and failure. Examining the patterns that lead to failure of several promising startups will help participants see the warning signs. Startups that successfully scale up follow five simple disciplines. They become students of startup resistance; They build a mission and business model that inspire, create value, and bring clarity; They consistently act on and take responsibility for their top priorities; They regularly learn, adapt, and iterate their plans as necessary; and They create a culture of character and principle that brings out the best in the team."
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The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Rit... - 0 views

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  • lauraart7 on 12 May 17
     
    by-product
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The Matrix of Convivial Technology - Assessing technologies for degrowth - ScienceDirect - 0 views

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  • Looking for a definition of convivial technologies it uses qualitative empirical research conducted with degrowth-oriented groups developing or adapting grassroots technologies
  • summed up into five dimensions: relatedness, adaptability, accessibility, bio-interaction and appropriateness. These dimensions can be correlated with the four life-cycle levels material, production, use and infrastructure to form the Matrix for Convivial Technology (MCT).
  • lauraart7 on 28 Aug 17
     
    from general search on definition of Convivial Tech
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity | Convivial Technologies, Storychasers and Digital St... - 0 views

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  • As promoting a richer and fuller living of life? Are there technologies or technology uses you love which draw you closer to other people and make you more acutely aware of the REAL important things in life? Because “storychasing” an oral history interview with someone involves things like listening, wondering, and asking, I think these activities with technology actually “humanize” us as individuals and in groups more than they “distance and distract.”
  • lauraart7 on 28 Aug 17
     
    from general definition search of Convivial Technology with vivid wording on it's place in making life meaningful, beyond the ideas "compatible with life" Kelly, and that "technology is a monolithic concept...to embrace or reject whole, rather than take a more discriminating and thoughtful approach." (Blog Author, W. Fryer) Also mentions Kevin Kelly's book, "What Technology Wants"
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