Beyond rationality in engineering design for sustainability

Leidy Klotz (), Elke Weber, Eric Johnson, Tripp Shealy, Morela Hernandez and Bethany Gordon
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Leidy Klotz: University of Virginia
Elke Weber: Princeton University
Eric Johnson: Columbia University
Tripp Shealy: Virginia Tech
Morela Hernandez: University of Virginia
Bethany Gordon: University of Virginia

Nature Sustainability, 2018, vol. 1, issue 5, 225-233

Abstract: Abstract If you try to ensure long-term human well-being within the limits of the natural world, then you design for sustainability. This Review organizes research describing how cognitive biases can hinder and help engineering design for sustainability. For example, designers might overlook climate change implications because of nearsighted thinking, a bias which can be overcome by vividly imagining the future. For researchers, this Review illuminates needs at the convergence of decision science and engineering design. For designers (that is, all of us), the Review promises new routes to sustainability, through changes to decision environments and through insights into our own design thinking.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0054-8

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