The Lions' gate: Towards a permaculture-inspired blended space

Callum Egan; Richard Thompson; Andrew O'Dowd

The Lions' gate: Towards a permaculture-inspired blended space

Callum Egan, Richard Thompson, Andrew O'Dowd

Edinburgh Napier University

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Abstract

In light of the devastating ecological effects of climate breakdown and with human well-being under severe stress, this paper presents The Lions' Gate - an in-development, urban, interactive permaculture project on-campus in Edinburgh, Scotland. We argue that to address limits to computing, a radical framework is needed. We position permaculture as an alternative to the economic growth model, and it's associated temporal controls. Our work is an attempt at shifting our thinking and doing by employing a blended spaces perspective to permaculture, university campuses and digital media. By starting from a permaculture view we have the ecological and ethical tools to practice alternatives to growth. As far as Sustainable Interaction Design (SiD) is concerned - in today's climate, actions must ultimately speak louder than words.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450372817
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th Workshop on Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2019 - Lappeenranta, Finland Duration: 10 Jun 2019 → 11 Jun 2019

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	5th Workshop on Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2019
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Lappeenranta
Period	10/06/19 → 11/06/19

Keywords

Blended spaces
Permaculture
Sustainability

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The Lions' gate: Towards a permaculture-inspired blended space. / Egan, Callum; Thompson, Richard; O'Dowd, Andrew.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 7 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

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