Eliminative Design for Sustainable Futures in Service Design: Using our erasers as design tools

Abstract

I have often pondered the crucial question that should precede any design endeavour: Do we truly require what the design process may yield? Would we not be wiser to judiciously employ existing solutions? Shouldn’t we consider elimination not only as a means, but also an end for our design? Perhaps the starting point for our design activities should be the eradication of false needs. This is what’s known as ‘eliminative design’.