Design It! Solving Sustainability Problems by Applying Design Thinking

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Environmental and sustainability problems create an ongoing need to further develop the toolbox of sustainability science. The method “design thinking”, originally applied in design engineering and business, serves as a tool to find the simplest and most likely explanation for a problem. It consists of a specific logical inference: starting from an observation, a theory which accounts for the observation is developed in a collaborative process. This abductive reasoning requires the designer to clear his mind of traditional solutions and to create a specific “working principle” that leads to new and creative problem solving.
Original languageEnglish
JournalGAIA
Volume24
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)174-178
Number of pages5
ISSN0940-5550
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Publication statusPublished - 2015