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The book "Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour" has all the information about co-evolution in action ...  |
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We might be able to help your company, city or region reap the benefits of co-evolutionary approaches. Read about it ... |
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Examples of concrete co-evolutionary projects from six different countries are provided in the section "Cases" ... |
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The Co-evolution Initiative was launched with the release of the book "Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour" in 2005. It is an attempt to employ co-evolutionary approaches to make households, companies, cities and regions more sustainable.
The co-evolutionary premiss ...
Technical/infrastructural aspects of a household, company, city or region must not be looked at in isolation from the social practices in people's everyday lives – and vice versa. Our travel routines, for example, are a function of the availability of travel options. Conversely, the designers of urban infrastructures react to people's behaviours in their design of the technical 'regime' around us.
The co-evolutionary diagnosis ...
People take technologies/infrastructures as given and designers/architects/planners take people's behaviour as given. This causes a disjointed development of both technologies and social practices. One always limps one step after the other. The result is all too often that users and providers of technologies blame each other for the non-sustainable reality of our modern life.
The co-evolutionary solution ...
Co-evolution tackles this problem by synchronizing the development of technologies/infrastructures and social practices through a clever technique of systematic participation that ensures the "synchronic pre-adaptation" of future technologies and infrastructures. This approach can be employed in relation to mobility, water use, waste reduction, urban regeneration, regional food procurement, even crime prevention strategies.
This website presents cases where such a co-evolution has been achieved and demonstrates how it could be achieved with your product or in your city.
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