Low-tech
An approach to designing goods, services and organisations that are useful, accessible and sustainable, using techniques that are as simple, resource-sparing and repairable as possible. ADEME frames it as questioning needs as much as technology; it is not, in principle, opposed to innovation.
See also: Sufficiency
Reference source: infos.ademe.fr
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