guest lecture sustainable lens 2014

A framework forsustainable computing

Sustainable development is the kind of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Brundtland Commission 1987

Watson et al. (2012) Fish and Fisheries (data from FAO)

As a society we have to learn to live in a complex world of interdependent systems with high uncertainties and multiple legitimate interests. These complex and evolving systems require a new way of thinking about risk, uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance. These systems require that we can think simultaneously of drivers and impacts of our actions across scales and barriers of space, time, culture, species and disciplinary boundaries.

Making invisible visible

• Recognition of unseen elements

• See opportunities for sustainable practice

skills

• Identify un/sustainabilityness of actions –

that is recognise if something is

unsustainable, or distinguish degrees of

sustainability

• Present options and ways of

framing alternatives

Beyond

argumentative

behaviour change(and good/evil choices)

• How can a collaborative approach based on

motivational interviewing be used to

overcome barriers in behaviour change

Sustainability as

systems

And we are part of those systems.

• What would be the consequence of

considering an basis of interaction that is a

collaboration with the environment (rather

than on, or about the environment)?

• How can Sustainable Lens position human as

actors rather than stressors?

• How can Sustainable Lens combine human

and biophysical information into a single

coherent narrative?

Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou

Kāti Huirapaki Puketeraki Runaka

Te Runanga o Moeraki

Hokonui Rūnaka

Objective 1: The development and testing of

a participatory approach to game

development.

Objective 2: Develop a software tool for

creating specific Māori virtual environments:

the “SimPā toolkit”

Objective 3: Develop and test tools for the

use of games in teaching Māori concepts.

Objective 4: Develop techniques and

practices for the further use of GamePā

Objective 5: Develop a new specialist area

in education: Māori digital content

Objective 6. Develop a process of adoption

of this initiative beyond the collaborating

partners

• Overwhelming success, but very

different to that expected.

• Need to abandon a linear flow to

accommodate a process that is very

much more organic.

• SimPā toolkit has ended up being

much more about process –

partnerships of ideas and

capabilities – than about the

technology.

• Need to recognise complex

structures of knowledge ownership

• The project has taken far more

partnership negotiation than the

team ever imagined.

• The SimPā team had to be

indistinguishably both Otago

Polytechnic and Iwi

Sustainability as

ethics extended in

space and time.

To what extent do you agree/disagree with the following statements?

Strongly Disagree (1)

Disagree (2) Neither Agree nor Disagree

(3)

Agree (4) Strongly Agree (5)

If it's legal it's ethical

The dignity and welfare of

people should be the most

important concern in society

Selfishness is the best guiding

principle

Questions of what is ethical

for everyone can never be

resolved since what is moral

or immoral is up to the

individual.

Business is a special case, the

ethics are different to personal

life


Strongly Disagree

(1)

Disagree (2) Neither Agree nor Disagree (3)


As long as everyone is following "they are

in it for themselves" society as a whole will

prosper

If I'm operating within the law I don't need to

worry about ethics

It is never necessary to sacrifice others

What is ethical varies from one situation

and society to another

My employer will protect me if anything

goes wrong, so long as I've followed their

rules.


Strongly Disagree

(1)

Disagree (2) Neither Agree nor Disagree (3)


The existence of potential harm to others is

always wrong, irrespective of the benefits to

be gained

My job as a computer professional is to

provide the technical solutions (code or

infrastructure), my managers will have

considered the ethical implications

There is no room in business for soft things

like ethics, if your competitor does it then

you can

Computing is largely theoretical or technical

- with little consequence

The existence of potential harm to others is

always wrong, irrespective of the benefits to

be gained

0 1 2 3 4


The existence of potential harm to others is always wrong,irrespective of the benefits to be gained

The dignity and welfare of people should be the most importantconcern in society

There is no room in business for soft things like ethics, if yourcompetitor does it then you can

Business is a special case, the ethics are different to personal life

What is ethical varies from one situation and society to another

Questions of what is ethical for everyone can never be resolvedsince what is moral or immoral is up to the individual.

My job as a computer professional is to provide the technicalsolutions (code or infrastructure), my managers will have…

My employer will protect me if anything goes wrong, so long asI've followed their rules.

As long as everyone is following "they are in it for themselves"society as a whole will prosper

Selfishness is the best guiding principle

If I'm operating within the law I don't need to worry about ethics


agree

} Naïve legalism

} Naïve egoism

} Naïve agency

} Naïve relativism

} Naïve relativism in context

} Idealism

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disagree agree

0 1 2 3 4














disagree agreeStudent Employer

• How can our Sustainable Lens be able to

operate on multiple scales of space and time

simultaneously?

• How can we develop systems that explicitly

account for both our ancestors and future

generations?

There are multiple

legitimate interests.

• To what extent will solutions need to be

tailored to individual situations?

• How can we to communicate across these

divides of understanding form an opportunity

for collaboration?

• How can support for the sustainable

practitioner adapt to changing

understandings?

Forget the dogma of

"you can't manage

what we can't

measure"We must befriend uncertainty.

• How can Sustainable Lens represent

uncertainty?

• How can Sustainable Lens support situations

where there is no single right answer?

Working with

scenariosVisioning a better life, not a lesser

life.

• What is the nature of the complexity of

models and engagement with degree of

participation?

• How can Sustainable Lens encourage and

actively support sharing solutions and

understandings?

• How can we integrate and visualise data from

multiple sources across multiple scales of

space and time? What are the implications of

doing this in real time and in participatory

situations?

• To what extent should we expose the models

used?

• What are the requirements for a code of

Sustainability as

communicationbut not the greenwash kind.

• How might we begin to describe sustainability

in terms of patterns?

• How can Sustainable Lens provide engaging,

accessible and understandable interactions?

• How can Sustainable Lens allow people to

‘‘drill down’’ past the charisma (of the surface)

and access the back stories – the

researchers, management?

• How can open modelling frameworks

encourage an effective and efficient structure

for collaborative sharing, reusing and

critiquing of elements in a Sustainable Lens

worldview?

• How can Sustainable Lens use make use of

multiple understandings to improve

understanding?

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