Stuart Walker

Design for Resilience

Making the Future We Leave Behind

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Produktbeschreibung

"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048095
• ISBN-10: 0262048094
• Artikelnr.: 66700431

Autorenporträt

Stuart Walker is Chair of Design for Sustainability at Manchester School of Art, Emeritus Professor at Lancaster and Calgary, and Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. He has conducted research and exhibited his conceptual designs internationally. His most recent book is Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
Part I: Resilience 7
2 The Dragrope of the Soul 9
3 Small Is Beautiful 23
4 The Nature of the Material 35
5 Attainment 39
6 Pasquinade 47
7 Appreciative Design 49
8 Design Criticism 69
9 Toward Resilience 89
10 Ten Ways to Create More Waste 105
11 Another Kind of Progress 107
Part II: Precedents 113
12 Resilient Artifacts and Activities 115
13 Resilient Home 127
14 Resilient Food 153
15 Resilient Culture 179
16 Resilient Play 219
17 Resilient Spirit 255
Part III: Resilience by Design 281
18 Design for Good 283
19 Truism 291
20 (C2H4)n Fever 293
21 Design after a Pandemic 295
22 An Intentional Act 305
23 A Tale of Three Birds 307
24 Design for Resilience 311
Acknowledgments 341
Appendix 1: Merrill's Rules of Rota 343
Appendix 2: Schadler's Rules of Latrunculi 345
Appendix 3: Rules of Nine Men's Morris 347
Appendix 4: Rules of Jacks 349
Notes 351
Index 393