Some Aspects of Using Universal Design as a Redesign Strategy for Sustainability

Moyen M. Mustaquim and Tobias Nyström ()
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Moyen M. Mustaquim: Uppsala University
Tobias Nyström: Uppsala University

A chapter in Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, 2017, pp 49-60 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Sustainability is something that unites humankind and the important 2015 UN Climate Change Conference manifested this and was described by many as our last chance. A shifting towards sustainability through design is a challenge for managers and policymakers of organizations since the existing system or product could be complex and may have difficulty to adopt such a shift. This paper explores how organizations and their designers and developers could benefit from having a predictable process to follow for conducting such a shift, since numerous challenges are associated with costs and revenues. While universal design (UD) is a design philosophy closely associated with the sustainable design, an advanced perspective of UD could be implied as a redesign strategy for existing design and may be used as a radical design and innovation strategy for sustainability. In this paper, some of the aspects of UD as a redesign strategy for sustainability are addressed. Based on the previous theoretical frameworks, a UD approach for redesigning towards sustainability was formulated and discussed.

Keywords: Sustainability; Information system design; Universal design; Universal design for redesign (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44711-7_5

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