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Unpleasurable products and interfaces: provocative design communication for sustainable society

Sustainable design can be perceived as a sort of activism, and as such the emphasis is on communicating certain messages with design. Designers can be seen as trained facilitators for societal discourse, as they are educated to negotiate between several stakeholders in a context-driven problem solving setting. They can also combine aesthetic and functional thinking. These skills should be used to question the over-consumptive consumer behavior.
 This short position paper explores the ways, how design can be used to bring matters to a head in our society. It is looking into strategies, such as provocative critical design, as explorative design activity that seek to raise societal issues into public debate. It also suggests the posthuman factors to user-interface design, and proposes provocation as one the attribute for design to draw more attention to the contemporary challenges of sustainability.