Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories

by Chapman, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781844074136
• ISBN10: 1844074137
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable design progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines'professionals, students and academics. This challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the world's leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an authoritative anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword-John Thackara

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Re-defining the Purpose of [Sustainable] Design: Enter the Design Enablers, Catalysts in Co-Design

Design

The Scenario of a Multi-Local Society: Creative Communities, Active Networks and Enabling Solutions

Relative Abundance: Fuller's discovery That the Glass is Always Half Full

Clothes that Connect

(In)conclusion

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