The PC2 is called Eco-design: “Human-driven approaches for sustainable digital objects”.
The massive adoption of digital objects leads to a huge impact for the environment. Indeed, a simple object involves a physical infrastructure and the deployment of software services, which impact is largely unseen by the end-user. We miss a comprehensive understanding of the impact of digital objects, necessary to encourage responsible adoption of technologies. The Eco-design project focuses on the human ecosystems and aims at delivering appropriate methods and tools to promote the eco-design of sustainable digital technologies.
It is subdivided in four topics. #1 studies the relationship between the person and the object, to design and promote sustainable interactions. #2 addresses the eco-design of digital objects and, in particular, the software dimension, raising the issue of application design that puts environmental impacts at its heart and considers the entire lifespan of the application. The question of the symbiosis between hardware and software is therefore key to fully assessing the impact of an application, and will be the subject of #3. Finally, #4 will look at the specific case of obsolescence, an essential lever for reducing the overall impact of digital technology.
Leaders: Romain Rouvoy (Univ. Lille), Emmanuel Baudoin (IMT-BS), Olivier Segard (IMT-BS)