What is this sustainability thing 1

What is this “Sustainability Thing”? Jenni Goricanec @ Swinburne University 24 th August 2011

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Towards Creating Sustaining Futures: a philosophy of (engineering) practice for the 21 st Century ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

I accept that humans have effected the natural processes of the world ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Start with a human system (artefacts e.g. dams)

The project to build the artefact “sits” within an open system

This combination of relations is socio-ecological (Emery & Trist [2])

Highly interconnected… Our systems, networks, processes and organisations, developed with a causal logic have become over time deeply enmeshed in a ‘cats-cradle of interconnections’ with behaviour ‘driven by interactions between optimising, but confused, agents’ (Haldane [3]).

Turbulence: an important emergent property of the causal texture ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Shift in causal texture  responses need to shift ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Engineering ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Engineering as creating what can be, consistent with collective goals

Response? ,[object Object],[object Object]

Creating an escape from our labyrinthine, turbulent predicament Engineering ,[object Object]

Directive Correlation (Sommerhof [9])

Directive Correlation ,[object Object],[object Object],The appropriate method for engineering a living, open system is active adaptive engineering, using foresight to create desirable and feasible futures (or outcomes) for the system as a whole

Engineering practitioners making heterogeneous connections Engineering organising a sustaining technological world; becoming broader, more transdisciplinary, dissolving boundaries

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Framing  Methodology ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Framing  Methodology ,[object Object]

Method/Practice Assemblage ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Method/Practice Assemblage ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What emerges? Propositions for engineering ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Sustainability Thing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Sustainability Thing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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