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The first post-modern design manifestoes referencing ecological imperatives emerged in the 1960s (Jencks and Kropf 1997). Green and ecological design in the late 1980s evolved into eco-design and Design for the Environment (DfE), with an emphasis on eco-efficient ways of designing. By the late 1990s, the canon moved on as Design for Sustainability...
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... in this context is understood as comprising a wider spectrum of objectives, adding a social, institutional and ethical dimension to eco-design. Sustainability in this view is a complex concept involving four axes or dimensions: environmental, economic, human/social and societal/institutional (Figure 1), making it probably the most difficult governance orientation ever suggested (Spangenberg et al., 2002). Little wonder then, that DfS, 'sustainable design', or 'sustainability design', still lingers on the outer boundaries of design education and practice (see for example in the UK, Otto, 2003;Richardson et al., 2005; in Denmark, ICIS/University of Lund, 2005 survey). ...
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