Designing To Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design

ISBN-13: 9780415527354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 258 str.

Thomas Fisher (University of Minnesota)

Opis

The author discusses the context and cultural assumptions that have led to a number of disasters worldwide, describing the nature of fracture-critical design and why it has become so prevalent.

Spis treści

Introduction: Designed Catastrophes  1.The Increasing Incidence of Disasters  2. Our Planetary Ponzi Scheme  3. Fracture-Critical Design  4. Disasters on Demand  5. The Anti-Shock Doctrine  6. Redefining Success  7. Fracture-Critical Species  8. Re-sizing the Human Footprint  9. Fracture-Critical Population  10. Protective Design  11. Fracture-Critical Economy  12. Rethinking Work  13. Fracture-Critical Politics  14. Reimagining Government  15. Fracture-Critical Higher Education  16. Redesigning the University  17. Fracture-Critical Infrastructure  18. Going Dutch  19. Fracture-Critical Developments  20. A Better Way to Dwell  21. Fracture-Critical Buildings  22. Designing for Durability  23. Fracture-Critical Consumption  24. Creative Citizen Consumption  25. Why We Have So Much Bad Design  26. The Design Mind  27. The Process of Design  28. The Logic of Design  29. The Pragmatics of Design  30. The Holon of Design  31. Designing our Future  32. What We Can Live Without  33. The Adulthood of the Species  34. Media, Metaphor, and Meaning  35. The Nature of Things to Come  36. Hell or Paradise? 

O autorze

Fisher, Thomas