Stuart Walker (UK Lancaster University)

Sustainable by Design

Explorations in Theory and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers 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. It discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, and ephemeral design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781844073535
• ISBN-10: 184407353X
• Artikelnr.: 21486992

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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