Resumo

IRWIN, Terry; TONKINWISE, Cameron  e  KOSSOFF, Gideon. Transition Design: The Importance of Everyday Life and Lifestyles as a Leverage Point for Sustainability Transitions. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2022, n.105, pp.73-106.  Epub 01-Mar-2022. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi105.4189.

The core challenge of the current era is the transition towards sustainability. This transition needs to be defined in the broadest terms possible. It is a project that is at once political, social, economic, cultural, scientific and technological: every dimension of human affairs is challenged by the need for transition, and, as various issues reach critical points (climate change, inequity, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, etc) the urgency with which this needs to happen increases. The School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University have responded to this challenge by introducing what they have called ‘transition design’ into the curricula at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels (Irwin 2015) which “takes as its central premise the need for societal transitions to more sustainable futures and argues that design has a key role to play in these transitions” (Irwin et al. 2015b: 1).

Palavras-chave : Transition Design; Everyday Life; Lifestyles; Leverage Points; Socio-technical transitions; Sustainability Transitions..

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