Sustainable by Design
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Sustainable by Design

Explorations in Theory and Practice

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eBook - ePub

Sustainable by Design

Explorations in Theory and Practice

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About This Book

To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of designing. Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aesthetic experience.

This book will introduce vital concepts to students and will inspire designers by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136555879
Edition
1
Topic
Design
Subtopic
Graphic Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures and Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Rethinking Material culture: The cage of aesthetic convention
  12. 3. Sustainable Development in Context: The evolution of a contemporary myth
  13. 4. Design Process and Sustainable Development: A journey in design
  14. 5. Enduring Artefacts and Sustainable Solutions: Object lessons
  15. 6. Reassessing ‘Good’ Design: Objects as symbols of beauty
  16. 7. Design, Sustainability and the Human Spirit: How the other half lives
  17. 8. Fashion and Sustainability: The attraction of opposites
  18. 9. The Application of Theory: Experiments in sustainable product design
  19. 10. Tacit Knowledge in Design: Visual myths
  20. 11. Reframing Design for Sustainability: Unmasking the object
  21. 12. Time and Design: Crushed before the moth1
  22. 13. Creating Objects in a Saturated Culture: After the endgame
  23. 14. Ephemeral Objects for Sustainability: Light touch
  24. 15. Intellectual and Aesthetic Understandings of Design: The considered gaze
  25. 16. Epilogue
  26. Notes
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index