Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781844073542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Stuart Walker

Opis

Offering a design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design, this book explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects.

Spis treści

Introduction * Rethinking Material Culture * Sustainable Development in Context * Design Process and Sustainable Development * Enduring Artefacts and Sustainable Solutions * Reassessing 'Good' Design * Design, Sustainability and the Human Spirit * Fashion and Sustainability * The Application of Theory * Tacit Knowledge in Design * Reframing Design for Sustainability * Time and Design * Creating Objects in a Saturated Culture * Ephemeral Objects for Sustainability * Intellectual and Aesthetic Understandings of Design * Bibliography * Index

O autorze

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.