So we’ve joined the Sustainable-CHI (Computer Human Interaction) group which grew out of CHI 07. As I said on our intro post to the group wiki its easy to think about how to be sustainable in design when we talking about things like print (ink, paper stock, off cuts etc) but what is a sustainable website? Obviously online technology offers us a lot of potential to reduce waste in many ways, but theres more to it than that. Looking forward to the discussion the group generates about how HCI (Human Computer Interaction) methods, and Interaction Design more generally can play an active role in encouraging and supporting positive change in peoples lives, and also examining the role technology designers like ourselves play in determining that. In the meantime enjoying revisiting lovely related design/sustainability/HCI resources such as Sustainable
Everday by Ezio Manzini and Francois Jegou and the inspiring Urban Probe Jetsam project by Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins (the project not the website :))