ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses several cases of technology development that are relevant for sustainable development. It aims at unravelling the perceptions that went into the design process, the contradictions, dilemmas and paradoxes that emerged and the way in which new innovative technologies helped to solve the dilemmas and to offer new possibilities. The chapter shows how different articulations of sustainability have played a role in various innovation projects. Sustainable product based on a single feature of the product, disregarding other possible articulations— being energy-efficient or recyclable, Sustainability is a widely used concept for a bewildering range of ideas. The chapter offers various accounts of different perceptions of problems and solutions, of the paradoxes of sustainability that appear when technologies are used in a socio-economic setting, and of the possibilities for learning. It shows how the local geographical and social conditions.
