Sustainable by Design

by Walker, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781844073535
• ISBN10: 184407353X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

· Presents and develops theory into practice through worked design examples Sustainable by Design offers a compelling, innovative, and design-centered approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing, and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression, and aesthetic experience. This book will introduce vital concepts and inspire by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.

Author Biography

Stuart Walker PhD is Professor of Environmental Design and Associate Dean (Research and International) at the post-graduate Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada. He is also Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Rethinking Material Culture: the cage of aesthetic convention	p. 7
Sustainable Development in Context: the evolution of a contemporary myth	p. 15
Design Process and Sustainable Development: a journey in design	p. 29
Enduring Artefacts and Sustainable Solutions: object lessons	p. 39
Reassessing 'Good' Design: objects as symbols of beauty	p. 53
Design, Sustainability and the Human Spirit: how the other half lives	p. 61
Fashion and Sustainability: the attraction of opposites	p. 71
The Application of Theory: experiments in sustainable product design	p. 79
Tacit Knowledge in Design: visual myths	p. 99
Reframing Design for Sustainability: unmasking the object	p. 113
Time and Design: crushed before the moth	p. 139
Creating Objects in a Saturated Culture: after the endgame	p. 149
Ephemeral Objects for Sustainability: light touch	p. 167
Intellectual and Aesthetic Understandings of Design: the considered gaze	p. 185
Epilogue	p. 201
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 235
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