Beyond Efficiency and Convenience. Using Post-growth Values as a Nucleus to Transform Design Education and Society
In this position paper we present Municipan, an artefact resulting from a post-growth design experiment, applied in a student design project. In contrast to mainstream human-centered design directed at efficiency and convenience, which we argue leads to deskilling, dependency, and the progression of the climate crisis, we challenged students to envision an opposite user that is willing to invest time and effort and learn new skills. While Municipan is not a direct step towards a postgrowth soci…
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