This research aims to propose community service model supporting sustainable living. Many ecologists insist that our planet reached the limits to the growth of human beings. The human beings have to reduce by as much as 90% of energy and material co...
This research aims to propose community service model supporting sustainable living. Many ecologists insist that our planet reached the limits to the growth of human beings. The human beings have to reduce by as much as 90% of energy and material consumption in the next 40 years to meet human needs within the earth's carrying capacity. It will be physically impossible for our nations to achieve our material living standards with exiting 'industrial age' technologies.
Today, we must change our society and economy system to sustain our civilization. Our society needs new paradigm and new lifestyle. We need to learn to live better with consuming fewer environmental resources. In other words, we need to live up to the sustainable living. The sustainable living is the heathy living to pursue the wellbeing in the changes of society and economy system for meeting ecological sustainablity. It is not easy to live with practicing the sustainable living in the society of consumption. It needs the community service that facilitates and supports a new type of living. The community service can help for people to fit into the transition toward sustainable society.
This research discussed about the concept and value of sustainable society to create of new community service concepts. I surveyed the understanding of sustainable living and the basic attitude of living to understand the receivers of community service. Our majority of people knew that the current living style have to be changed to the sustainable living style according to the survey on the understanding of sustainable living. However, the survey showed also that 61.8 percent of people increased their energy consumption. This means that common people know the necessity of changing for sustainability theoretically, but they do not try and start the change in their life. I investigated various sustainable living idea in world wide scale. This research process made for me to come up with the service design concepts and service ideas.
I suggested the new community service system in this research, which is the system supporting and facilitating sustainable living of community members and helping the transformation of existing society and economy system. The new model of community service system has the service platforms as a kind of operating systems for sustainable service ideas. This service platform is a key that opens the door between current living and sustainable living. There are four different service platforms in this research. The product circulation/rental service platform can offer rental service of all of product, managing service the maintenance and recycling of product, renewing service of scrapped materials, and maintain the public goods for community by directly or indirectly participating various social organizations and enterprises. The group purchasing service platform can offer the online and offline place that community members order the organic food or goods from local producer. The sharing land/space service platform can offer the connecting service between land or space owner and lender, rental service and managing service of community public space, and the information and ideas of practical use for a land and a space. The socializing service platform can offer the community members online and offline places to be involved in community in various way and all kinds of information and ideas of cultural event for the community. These service platforms are very flexible and adjustable to various service idea and service provider.
This research showed the creation of the new model of community service system with design tool. Design for living is the skill of communicating, predicting the idea, imagination, and expression of participator and the process of making living.