020210716215043 Ideas: What is a Sustainabilitist?
I want to be better? but what does this mean? how does one do this?
So, what is a sustainabilitist?. I claim that a sustainabilitist is someone that embraces “ Post-environmentalism” … see: The Sustainabilitist Manifesto
And so then this kind of person, this sustainabilitist, then somehow is able to correctly value social, environmental, and economic things in more holistic, interlinked, everything-is-connected, type ways.
A designer as sustainabilitist then designs for ALL these things together… There has to be some awareness for the market… some for society… some for nature.
The whole problem with this is that it envisions the systems as working the way they do now, but made better, made more holistic. It doesn’t perhaps envision a different way, a different set of values completely. Instead of high tech and high value and high ROI economically, what if its just getting by — and getting by with a way more socialist or communist view point for what “ownership” means? for what “production” means?
This is perhaps what a sustainabilitist must be too. Part everything. A real mutli-disciplinarian. A renaissance person. How do you understand how to collaborate with people; empathize; communicate; make; weld; calculate; all at high level and together? How do you see all the connections? how do you understand all the complex webs? Can any 1 person do this anymore? does everyone have to not only be a renaissance person, but also be an expert in something and connect with other multi-disciplinarians and experts? everything needs dynamic, resilient, adaptable, on the fly teams made up of whomever is best and available at that time? take the model of Superfriendly and turn it on every situation and problem? Where does large bureaucracy and government fit here?
Is it important to be a designer as sustainabilitsit, or just to be a sustainabilitist. Naturally some design will be required. But if you focus on the sustainability things and not the design… does that limit one? does that free one? the design stuff is mostly pretty easy actually. If you can see the real problems in the right way, then you can much more correctly find and formulate the right solutions. if you are just looking at solutions… you just keep having what we have. this works for some people?
I don’t know. But I still want to get it figured out.
Originally published at https://www.bjornpaedia.com.
