Sustainability is a central concern for our society, and software systems increasingly play a central role in it. As designers of software technology, we cause change and are responsible for the effects of our design choices. We recognize that there is a rapidly increasing awareness of the fundamental need and desire for a more sustainable world, and there is a lot of genuine goodwill. However, this alone will be ineffective unless we come to understand and address our persistent misperceptions. The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design aims to initiate a much needed conversation in and beyond the software community by highlighting such perceptions and proposing a set of fundamental principles for sustainability design.
@article{arxiv.1410.6968,
title = {The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design},
author = {Christoph Becker and Ruzanna Chitchyan and Leticia Duboc and Steve Easterbrook and Martin Mahaux and Birgit Penzenstadler and Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Camille Salinesi and Norbert Seyff and Colin Venters and Coral Calero and Sedef Akinli Kocak and Stefanie Betz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6968},
year = {2015}
}