Future-proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable

To address complex problems, innovative research solutions require deep engagement with practitioners. This project-based research must consider the long-term impact and sustainability of IT systems. Future-Proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable explores the experiences of leading research groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa, highlighting strategies for achieving sustainable design results. It offers a future-oriented perspective and insights to help researchers better design for sustainability.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 03 February 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Innovative research solutions increasingly demand a profound engagement with practitioners to effectively address the intricate challenges they seek to resolve. This often project-based research operates with finite resources within a constrained timeframe, without much consideration given to future-proofing the practice. These projects must grapple with the implications of a product reaching its end and whether any lasting positive effects persist once the IT systems cease active development. From a computing perspective, the challenge lies in designing IT artifacts that contribute to enhancing the user's work and daily life in a sustainable manner, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability.

Future-Proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable chronicles the experiences of several prominent research groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. It outlines their endeavors to achieve sustainable design outcomes, the obstacles they encountered, and the strategies they employed to attain sustainability. The analysis of these cases has sparked thought regarding how to more systematically address and potentially overcome the barriers to sustainability.

This book adopts a forward-looking perspective that conceptualizes sustainability as a multifaceted and diverse issue, and it offers insights and recommendations to assist researchers in designing for sustainability more effectively.

Weight: 784g
Dimension: 240 x 162 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198862505