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Abstract

This paper responds to the exigent need for empirical work addressing longitudinal ecological sustainability. Now more than ever, there is a need to address anthropogenic impacts through long-term thinking. We report on conceptual understandings of future thinking and its relationship with practices based on an institutionalised longitudinal vision of a sustainability community in India. We present empirical findings from ethnographic research on the community’s ongoing infrastructuring efforts towards the actualisation of its shared vision. The findings critically examine the interrelation between the town’s vision and its practices to co-imagine, evaluate and establish alternative ways of living. We contribute to sustainability research and praxis in PD through our framing of visions as both generative infrastructure and infrastructuring constellations of practice.

Publication Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	© The Authors. Published by ACM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Publisher Keywords:	Infrastructing, Future Visions, Participatory Visioning, Sustainable Living, Auroville
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments:	School of Science & Technology School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science > Human Computer Interaction Design
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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