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Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

Hardback by Chapman, Jonathan; Gant, Nick

Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

£210.00

ISBN:
9781844074136
Publication Date:
20 Aug 2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Earthscan Ltd
Pages:
176 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Temporarily unavailable
Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

Description

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 progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

Contents

Foreword - John Thackara * Introduction - Jonathan Chapman and Nick Gant * Re-defining the Purpose of [Sustainable] Design - Alastair Fuad-Luke * Design Redux - Stuart Walker * The Scenario of a Multi-Local Society: Creative Communities, Active Networks and Enabling Solutions - Ezio Manzini * Relative Abundance: Fuller's Discovery That the Glass Is Always Half Full - John Wood * Clothes that Connect - Kate Fletcher * (in)conclusion - Jonathan Chapman and Nick Gant

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