Abstract
This timeline is inspired by Tim O'Riordan's text, Environmental Ethics, which distinguishes two environmental ideologies, techno-centric and eco-centric modes. It follows the lifespan of one person born in 2023, Alexa, noting key health events throughout their life. It charts how they navigate eco and techno-centric forms of care interventions, balancing internal pressures and external forces, from doing nothing to going all out. While the next 100 years of care see radical changes in technologies and our relationship with the environment, the types of pressures, collective and personal, inform an individual's reactions. These pressures - political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural - often define and dictate a mutable, middle-ground in which a majority sits.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A 100 years of care: design-based explorations of a 100 years of care journeys |
| Editors | Craig Bremner, Paul Rodgers, Giovanni Innella, Justin Magee |
| Place of Publication | Belfast |
| Publisher | Ulster University |
| Pages | 32-33 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781859232989 |
| Publication status | Accepted - 04 Oct 2024 |
Keywords
- Design
- Visualisation
- Care
- Future-casting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
Access to Document
- Techno vs eco-centric ideologies of care
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