SusAF: Sustainability Awareness Framework

Research Project, 2015 –

The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) is a tool for thinking through short, medium- and long-term impacts of socio-technical systems on its surrounding environment.

The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) aims to anticipate the effects of IT products and services. It considers five dimensions of sustainability (social, individual, environmental, economic, and technical) and across three orders of effect (direct, indirect, and systemic). We teach you how to apply it to systems you bring with you or example systems we have as a backup. 

Our workbook guidance provides
1) a concrete method for projecting potential sustainability impacts of a system,
2) a graphical illustration to visualize these impacts, and
3) a structure to communicate sustainability impacts to diverse stakeholders.