Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places

ISBN-13: 9781032148182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Mark C. Childs

Opis

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places presents conceptual tools to inform design and outline the need for designers to rigorously think about potential futures.

Spis treści

1. Composing Futures  2. Grounding  3. Framing  Case Study 1: The Enduring and the Ephemeral  4. Drivers of Change, Continuity, and Coherence  Case Study 2: The McKinley Futures Studio  5. Layers of Change  Case Study 3: Public Markets: Timeless Civic Form as Timely 21^st Century Social Infrastructure  6. Composing Scenarios  Case Study 4: Planning for Uncertainty in Afghanistan  7. Rehearsals  Case Study 5: Pathways of Indigenous Futurism  8. Maps of Change  9. Pluripotency  10. Fictions of Place  11. World-Building  12. Stewardship of Place

O autorze

Mark C. Childs is the author of poems, academic and general audience articles, and award-winning urban design books. He was a senior Fulbright scholar in Cyprus in 2005. Mark recently retired from serving as professor and interim dean of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico. He now lectures and consults.