This document outlines an introductory course on system design for sustainability. It discusses sustainable development and design, providing context on the economic, environmental, and social crises facing the world. It defines the three dimensions of sustainability as environmental, socio-ethical, and economic/legislative. For each dimension, it explores priorities, challenges, and potential actions. It emphasizes the need for system innovation and radical or disruptive change to achieve sustainability goals of reducing resource use by 90% within 50 years through decentralized systems and dematerialization.
The Ideonaires 2009 Kick Off Meeting May 15th 1.00 PmSophie Racquez
During the 24 Hours of Innovation, The Idea Monopoly presented a slideshow about The Ideonaires 2009 contest and Open market innovation. New ideation method with this contest combining serendipity and chreology (science of needs satisfaction)
The Ideonaires 2009 Kick Off Meeting May 15th 1.00 PmSophie Racquez
During the 24 Hours of Innovation, The Idea Monopoly presented a slideshow about The Ideonaires 2009 contest and Open market innovation. New ideation method with this contest combining serendipity and chreology (science of needs satisfaction)
Non technological innovation: How to innovate cheaply !Sophie Racquez
In a context of globalized economy and crisis, companies are facing more and more competition. They want to gain market shares or at least not to loose existing ones and they want to bring to the market innovative goods or services. Cuts in R&D expenditures are unavoidable, so why not turn to non technological innovation - cheap and easy to get started with.
Non technological innovation: How to innovate cheaply !Sophie Racquez
In a context of globalized economy and crisis, companies are facing more and more competition. They want to gain market shares or at least not to loose existing ones and they want to bring to the market innovative goods or services. Cuts in R&D expenditures are unavoidable, so why not turn to non technological innovation - cheap and easy to get started with.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
1.1 sustainable development and system innovation vezzoli 11-12 (28)
1. course System Design for Sustainability
TODAY:
1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN:
THE REFERENCE FRAMEWORK
1.1 Sustainable development and system
innovation
1.2 Evolution of sustainability within design
1.3 1.3 Introduction to product Life Cycle Design
(LCD)
carlo vezzoli
politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . faculty of design . Italy
Learning Network on Sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
2. course System Design for Sustainability
subject 1. Sustainable development and design: the reference framework
learning resource 1.1
Sustainable development and system
innovation
carlo vezzoli
politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . faculty of design . Italy
Learning Network on Sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
3. CONTENTS
. a context in strong evolution (and crises)
. the sustainable development
. environmental sustainability
. socio-ethical sustainability
. economic/legislative sustainability
. dimension and quality of change
. system innovation for sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
4. A CONTEXT IN A STRONG EVOLUTION
. advent of information and comunication
technologies (technologies of knowledge are at
the based of productivity, competition and power)
. interconnection (people, ideas, images, goods,
money, are circulating like never before)
. network society (not anymore only divided into
independent and isolated nations or
communities)
. enterprises in network (teamwork, networking,
outsourcing, subcontracting, delocalisation,…)
.…
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
5. A CONTEXT IN A STRUCTURAL CRISES (1/2)
ECONOMIC CRISIS (AND SOCIAL) 2008-201X:
[STRUCTURAL, NOT JUST FINANCIAL]
. crisis of the industrial model based on material consumption:
services (not products) produce 50% Europe GDP and 75% of
U.S. GDP
. high feedstock‘s prices
. global food crisis
. high global inflation
. threat of a recession in the world
. crisis of credit
. crisis of confidence in stock exchange markets
...
. unemployment
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
6. A CONTEXT IN A STRUCTURAL CRISES (2/2)
ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS: THE
DISCOVERY OF ENVIROMENTAL
LIMITS (AND IRREVERSIBILITY
HARMFUL EFFECT)
1972: Meadows, Meadows, Randers,
Behrens, Limits to Growth, MIT, USA
> FIRST FORECAST OF A POSSIBLE
GOBAL ECO-SYSTEM COLLAPSE
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
7. FACING THE DOUBLE CRISIS (TODAY):
SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL
危机 : CRISIS ( 危 : RISK; " 机 : OPPORTUNITIES ')
in Chinese (as in other languages), the word crisis
has two meanings, risk and opportunity
. many (rightly) talk about risks
. we should/must (also) talk about opportunities
[the same nature of design is to consider the
opportunities and become its promoter]
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
8. [about opportunities]
A KEY CONTEMPORARY QUERRY:
WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMICAL
CRISIS WHICH ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?
DO WE KNOW ANY OFFER/BUSINESS MODELS
CAPABLE OF CREATING (NEW) VALUE
DECOUPLING IT FROM THE MATERIALS AND
ENERGY CONSUMPTION?
> significantly reducing the environmental impact
of traditional production/consumption systems?
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
9. SUSTAINABILITY: INTERNATIONAL PRIORITIES?
"The threat of climate change is serious, urgent and growing."
"The response to this challenge of our generation will be judged
by history, to the point that if we fail, we risk to deliver to
future generations an irreversible catastrophe"
"There is now a widespread understanding of the urgency of
the challenge we are facing. We know what must be done. "
Barack Hussein Obama, USA president, September 22, 2009,
the UN General Assembly
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
10. EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY
2005-2014: UNITED NATION DECADE ON
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
integrate the principles, values,
and practices of sustainable
development into all aspects of
education and learning
even DESIGN FOR
SUSTAINABILITY starts to be
diffused in the curricula of
design schools
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
11. THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
A SOCIAL AND PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
that takes place within the limits set by the
“nature” and meets the needs of the present
without compromising those of the future
generation within a world-wide equitable
distribution of resources
. 1987: Our common future, WCED, ONU (first definition)
. 1991: Caring for the earth, UNEP, WWF, IUCN
. 1992: conference ONU, Environment and development, Rio de Janeiro
. 1994: fifth environmental action plan, European Commission
…
. 2002: summit ONU, Sustainable development, Johannesburg
. 2006/2009: Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), European
Commission
. 2005-2014: Decade UNESCO “Education for Sustainable development”
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
12. THE SUSTAINABILITY DIMENSIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL: CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL
- not to exceed the biosphere and geosphere
“resilience”
SOCIO-ETHICAL
- same resources (satisfaction) level for future
generations
- equity in the distribution of resources (satisfaction)
ECONOMIC (AND LEGISLATIVE)
- economically practicable and prosperous solutions
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
13. THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
[THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE]
THE HARMFULNESS/IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS/EFFECTS
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
14. serra
greenhouse effect
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
15. ozono
ozone layer deplation
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
16. eutrhophication
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
17. acidification
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
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y AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
19. rifiuti
wastes
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Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
20. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: ACTIONS
PRESERVE THE RESOURCES
PREVENT THE POLLUTION
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
21. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: SCENARIOS
BIO-COMPATIBILITY
resources flows compatible with the natural system
NON-INTERFERENCE
“self-financing” of the artificial system’s resource
flows
DEMATERIALIZATION
reduction of the resources flows to satisfy a
particular social demand of needs and desires
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
22. SOCIO-ETHICAL SUSTAINABILITY
EQUITY PRINCIPLE [UN, Johannesburg, 2002]
“every person, in a fair distribution of resources, has a right to
the same environmental space, i.e. to the same availability of
global natural resources”
(or better, to the same level of “satisfaction” that can be
achieved from these resources in different ways)
SOCIAL EQUITY AND COHESION [EU, SDS, 2006/2009]
“promotion of a democratic, socially inclusive, cohesive,
healthy, safe and just society with respect for fundamental
rights and cultural diversity that creates equal opportunities
and combats discrimination in all its forms”
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
23. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
11.2010: FAO
THE STATE OF THE FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
24. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIM.: (OTHER) ACTIONS
[. eradicating poverty]
. promotion of principles and rules of democracy
. promotion of human rights and freedom
. achievement of peace and security
. access to information, training, employment
. respect for cultural diversity, regional identity
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
25. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY [EU, SDS, 2006]
promote a prosperous, innovative, knowledge-rich,
competitive and eco-efficient economy
which provides high living standards and full and high-
quality employment
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
26. ECONOMIC (LEGISLATIVE) SUSTAINABILITY: ACTIONS
PROPER ATTRIBUTION OF THE COSTS TO RESOURCES
environmental resources’ costs “internalisation”
ORIENTING (MAIN) ONGOING TRANSITIONS
interconnection, glocalization, services, information, etc.
ENHANCING PROMISING (OF NICHE) ECONOMIC MODELS
e.g. sustainable system innovation or distributed
economies
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
27. SUSTAINABILITY: SIZE OF CHANGE
IN 50 YEARS A WORLD-WIDE EQUITABLE SYSTEMS
OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION SHOULD USE
~90% LESS RESOURCES THAN THE
INDUSTRIALISED CONTEXTS ARE DOING TODAY
. 1993: Wuppertal institute,vari report
. 1993: WBCSD, Getting Eco-Efficient
. 2004: Meadows, Meadows, Randers, Behrens, Limits to
Growth: The 30-Year Update
. 2007: IPCC, Climate change report
…
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
28. SUSTAINABILITY: QUALITY OF CHANGE
RADICAL CHANGE (“DISCONTINUITY”)
PROMOTE (EVEN) SYSTEM INNOVATIONS
DIFFUSED INNOVATION
PROMOTE PLAUSIBLE AND “ATTRACTIVE” (SYSTEM)
INNOVATIONS
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
29. SYSTEM INNOVATIONS
from the process and product innovation
to the system innovation:
innovation of the value production system as the
mix of products and services that are together
able to fulfil a particular demand of (customer)
“satisfaction”
“A value system includes the value chains of a firm's supplier
(and their suppliers all the way back), the firm itself, the
firm distribution channels, and the firm's buyers (and
presumably extended to the buyers of their products, and
so on).” [Michael Porter, 2006]
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy