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The Everest mountaineering industry is becoming more and more commercialized. The concurrent phenomena of garbage amount increase, land pollution, ecological deterioration, lack of resilience in policy design and local endogenous service system, etc. all involved in the condition of mountaineering and tourism resources decline. Through case studies, literature studies, structured interviews and dynamic route analysis of relevant factors, the policies, social and industrial context of the local mountaineering industry were discussed. Afterwards, the Everest mountaineering team members, local managers, herders and other stakeholders was taken as the member of participatory design, which was aimed to conceive the fundamental system of waste recycling and the related subsystems of manure disposal based on Everest base camp. In this design case, multiple design actions were taken to explore the possibility of multi-method and multi-dimensional design participation. The concept try to mitigate status of soil pollution in the Everest region, respond the demands of stakeholders, activate the endogenous forces, and systematically optimize the sustainability of the Everest mountaineering industry and self-organized system. This systematic design is based on the study of relatively exclusive self-organizing systems in the local area, and using design and social research method to sort out the interdisciplinary complexity, integrating interdisciplinary systems such as plateau ecology, mountaineering, regional revenue distribution, and cultural reconstruction, providing available research and design cases for system design and social innovation in communities in remote areas.
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Zhang, J., Xu, C. (2020). Research on Social Innovation and S.PSS Apply to Waste Sorting and Recycling System Design in Plateau Area. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51038-1_41
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