Lecture 9 - Sept 26 (15-17) - Jorge Zapico

Time and place: Wednesday September 26, 15-17 in lecture hall E2

Title: "Hacking sustainability: using ICT for sustainability"
By: Jorge Zapico, MID/CESC KTH

Talk: In this lecture we will explore the positive effects of ICT and media technologies in sustainability. The focus is on what we can proactively do as media practitioners, coders, designers, users, to reduce the impact of technology and to exploit the positive effects of information technologies. We will look at the different areas of opportunities such as dematerialization, optimization, communicating sustainability and paradigm changes, and go through examples of projects working in these directions.

Jorge Zapico is a researcher and PhD candidate at KTH at Media technology and interaction design, the Centre for Sustainable Communications, and the department of Industrial Ecology. His research is on the relationship of ICT and sustainability and using data as a tool for sustainability. He is also co-organizer of the Green Hackathon series of events.

Literature:

- Hilty, L. (2008).  Information Technology and Sustainability: Essays on the relationship between information technology and sustainable development, Chapter 7, "A conceptual framework for ICT effects on sustainability"
Note: Available in Bilda.

- Hilty, L. (2008).  Information Technology and Sustainability: Essays on the relationship between information technology and sustainable development, Chapter 8, "Steps towards a Sustainable Information Society"

Note: Available in Bilda.

- Zapico, J., Brandt, N., Turpeinen, M. (2010) Environmental Metrics: The Main Opportunity from ICT for Industrial Ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology 14, 703-706. Short paper, download here.

Extra literature on these topics:
- The climate group and Gesi (2008) “Smart 2020”  Download.