NFC Cards Technology for a Non-print Campus Project: Prototyping a Transition Towards Environmental Sustainability

This research deliberates an in-situ observation towards potential transitions to environmental sustainability perceived as a range of intended digital transformation initiatives within Higher Education institutions. In recent years, the focus on aligning institutional visions and strategies with sustainable development goals is leading to a deep reconsideration of approaches, models, operational plans and thinking systems to generate and prototype an array of innovative actions and projects. Subsequently, the design transitions from paper-based processes to digital documentation becomes one of the pointed forms of transition. Therefore, this paper examines an on-campus initiative towards environmental sustainability using NFC Technology for an institutional vision towards a Non-Print Campus Project. Moreover, rather than the conceptual and technical constraints of the project, the complexity of a needed effective implementation and expansion seems extremely challenging in terms of viability, impacts and appropriation by both organizational structures and campus habitants. Particularly, the design initiative of NFC ID cards is developed and prototyped internally under the sustainability and development makers center and requires the development of a comprehensive global approach serving as a well-established argumentation in coherence with the institution’s strategic direction and vision towards SDGs.