Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers' capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers:

• New design ethics of care

• Indigenous perspectives

• Prototyping with nature

• Methods for new design and nature relations

• A history of design and nature

• Animist beliefs

• De-centering human-centered design

• Understanding nature has power and agency

Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2019

ISBN

9781351111492

Edition

Topic

Design

Subtopic

Design General

Index

Italic page numbers indicate figures and illustrations; numbers preceded by n indicate chapter endnotes

Abram, D. 21, 24

Acosta, G.G. 102

action learning 12, 14

actor-network theory 80

aesthetic experience 60–61, 177

Agamben, Giorgio 49

agency 9, 13, 14, 98, 200; human 52; indigenous 75; of nature 10, 18, 20, 21–22, 44, 52, 83, 195; of plants 83; and scale 50

agriculture 9, 155–156, 186; and observing nature 168; and textiles 167, 168, 169–170, 169

Alps 19, 44, 61, see Italian Alps

ancestors 51, 74, 198

Anderson, L.B. 80, 83

animal rights 4

animals, domesticated 53

animal-human relationship 53, 54

animism 10, 14, 18, 20–25, 46; and agency 21–22; and Buddhist practices 20, 22, 24; and children 24; and design 20, 22, 24, 25; and drawing/journaling 20, 21, 24; and interdependence 21, 25; neo- 102, 104; and scientific rationalism 21, see also trees, communicating with

Anker, Peder 96, 97

Antarctica SE3 (walking project) 145, 186–192; and appositeness of walking 190; and care 188–189, 191, 192; and design 189–190; and entanglements of climate change 186–187; and heatwave 186, 187, 189, 190; and morethan-human 186, 189, 191; and multiple viewpoints 190–191; participants/landmarks in 187–188, 188

Anthropocene 9, 30, 53, 161, 198–199

anthropocentrism, rational 16, 93

anthropology 56

ANTHROPONIX project see urine as growing mediu...

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Glossary
Section I: Lying
Section II: Sitting
Section III: Standing
Section IV: Walking
Conclusion
Contributors
Index