Commentary Ⅰ: One Practice Among Many: An Ecology of Practices in Sustainable HCI

摘要

As evidenced by this special issue, practice is a subject of considerable interest in sustainable HCI. This includes studying everyday practices and their relation to sus-tainability, and considering practice as a unit of design [Kuijer et al. 2013], that is, as something that might be approached in a manner akin to the design of products and services. This turn towards practices and practice theory is an important contribution to the development of HCI because it focuses research and design attention toward the common activities of life and how those common activities are woven together with a wide range of sustainability concerns. For instance, through investigations into the practices of repair we can gain valuable insight into tactical alternatives to the prevailing logics of planned obsolescence [Wakkary et al. 2013]. Similarly, attending to the corporeal aspects of the everyday, from the sensation of cold feet [Pink et al. 2013] to the experience of walking [Bidwell et al. 2013], reminds us that sustainability is a lived endeavor.