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标题：Of chalk and cheese: behaviour change and practice theory in sustainable design
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作者：Lenneke Kuijer ; Conny Bakker
期刊名称：International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1939-7038
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：219-230
DOI：10.1080/19397038.2015.1011729
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Design for sustainable behaviour (DfSB) is becoming increasingly influential in the areas of design research and practice. With its success, however, concerns are also rising about its limitations. This paper bundles these concerns and illustrates how DfSB approaches tend to focus on incremental savings that easily disappear in larger trends, how it risks not achieving the intended behaviour change, how its literature contains a strong rhetoric of right and wrong behaviours and how opportunities for larger scales of change tend to be missed. These concerns are illustrated using examples from the DfSB literature concerning refrigerators, electric kettles, televisions and showers. Going deeper into these limitations, the paper argues that the assumptions underlying DfSB approaches may not be the most appropriate basis for approaching the complex issue of sustainable consumption. Building on a growing number of publications in environmental policy and sustainable design, the paper then moves to explain practice theory as an alternative paradigm and argues that it shows potential to aid designers to envision change beyond the status quo and to achieve a higher effectiveness with designed interventions.
关键词：Keywords:endesign for sustainable behaviourhousehold energy consumptionpractice-oriented designsocial practice theory