Hasten Slowly: Developing an interactive sustainability storytelling chair

Callum Egan, Andrew O'Dowd, Neil Fyffe

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Abstract

Responding to the climate crisis and a considerable downturn in planetary well-being due to human consumption patterns, The Lions' Gate, on-campus, urban, permaculture-inspired, interactive community gardens project aims to affect changes in attitude toward the natural world by leveraging potentials within the university set-up. Specifically, this work details the development of an interactive storytelling chair that will sit central to goings-on in the garden space as both a technological and social hub that propagates sustainability-based conversations. We utilise a blended-spaces methodology to investigate the interplay of people, technology and environment, but further anchor our thinking in permaculture to understand the world in terms of planetary health and radical methods, that we posit are necessary in order to realise transition to a sustainable world. Rather than boycotting technology we seek to revise its use in a myriad of ways.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ICT4S 2020 - 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages321-329
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450375955
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S 2020 - Virtual, Online, United Kingdom
Duration: 21 Jun 202027 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/06/2027/06/20

Keywords

  • Blended spaces
  • internet of things
  • permaculture

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