Abstract
Small scale fabrication spaces have shown their potential to support our local supply chains during the collapse of many global supply chain networks at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...In anticipation of these spaces becoming more significant in local supply chains, it is increasingly important to reduce their environmental impacts. This work investigates the life cycle of small scale fabrication spaces by interviewing 18 participants from these spaces in the United States. Key insights from the interviews include the following: a) material selection, robust inventory management, and user support for material disposal are factors influencing optimal flow of materials and equipment through a fabrication space; b) lack of information from manufacturers and suppliers is a critical obstacle to achieve optimal use of materials and equipment, and informed decision making related to environmental sustainability and ethical labor practices; c) there are opportunities to take advantage of where financial and sustainability goals align; d) individual motivators for fabrication influences sustainable behaviors; and e) effective education about material and equipment use helps fabrication space users with more sustainable decision making.
Design thinking has become increasingly popular in academic, professional, and colloquial communities as a means to address complex problems. In an era where responses to global issues, such as the ...climate crisis, may have long lasting impressions on the human condition, it is important that the methods for solving these problems are setting solid foundations for future generations. This dissertation investigates sustainable and inclusive factors within the design thinking process based on the premise that these are foundational elements of complex problem solving. Holistically this dissertation studies how design thinking participants perceive success and satisfaction in a design thinking experience. Also, this work includes a particular focus on one of the more tangible stages of the design thinking process -- prototyping -- and uncovers opportunities to improve sustainable practices through drawing insights about the current vulnerabilities in the life cycles of prototyping and making. Key insights from this dissertation include significant struggles at the beginning of the design thinking experiences compared to the end of design thinking experiences (see Chapter 2 and Chapter 3) and suggests that demographic background plays a significant role in how design thinking participants perceive success (see Chapter 2). Notable takeaways about sustainable design thinking practices involve how the lack of transparency in the manufacturing and distribution of needed materials and equipment make it difficult for decision makers to prioritize sustainable, and even social, factors. Instead, cost, availability, and quality remain driving factors for decision making. In addition, the driving purpose for small scale fabrication spaces (such as community, project execution, or skill building) was revealed as an influential factor in sustainable behaviors throughout all stages of the life cycles of small scale fabrication spaces. Overall, future work that aims to reinforce sustainable and inclusive practices in design thinking would benefit from investigating how demographic context and motivation influence perceived value of, and observed behaviors within, design thinking processes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore’s greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had ...written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of scepticism. However, their defences and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of scepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll’s book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.
Includes tables. Typescript. Sponsor: Howard A. Murphy. Dissertation Committee: Paul W. F. Witt, Ernest E. Harris, . Type C project. Includes ...bibliographical references (leaves 311-321).
Principia Ethica Wilde, Norman
The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods,
10/1905, Letnik:
2, Številka:
21
Book Review, Journal Article
