Sustainable by design : explorations in theory and practice / Stuart Walker.
Definitely to be on the booklist of any product design course? Professor Jack Ingram Birmingham Institute of Art and Design?A fascinating book that takes the reader on a journey that is both diverse and full of surprise? Jonathan Chapman Senior Lecturer University of Brighton?A sensitive thought-pro...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rethinking material culture: the cage of aesthetic convention
- 3. Sustainable development in context: the evolution of a contemporary myth
- 4. Design process and sustainable development a journey in design
- 5. Enduring artefacts and sustainable solutions: object lessons
- 6. Reassessing 'good' design: objects as symbols of beauty
- 7. Design, sustainability and the human spirit: how the other half lives
- 8. Fashion and sustainability: the attraction of opposites
- 9. The application of theory: experiments in sustainable product design
- 10. Tacit knowledge in design: visual myths
- 11. Reframing design for sustainability unmasking the object
- 12. Time and design: crushed before the moth-- 13. Creating objects in a saturated culture: after the endgame
- 14. Ephemeral objects for sustainability: light touch
- 15. Intellectual and aesthetic understandings of design the considered gaze
- 16. Epilogue.