Stuart WalkerThe Spirit of Design
Objects, Environment and Meaning
Professor Stuart Walker is Head of Design and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster creative research lab at Lancaster University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. Formerly, he was Associate Dean at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada where he retains his affiliation. His research papers have been published and presented internationally and his conceptual designs have been exhibited at the Design Museum, London, across Canada and in Italy. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. His book, Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice is also published by Earthscan.
1. Introduction 2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects
3. Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design
Through Practice-Based Research 4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of
Product Appearance 5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design 6. Sermons in
Stones: Argument and Artefact for Sustainability 7. Gentle Arrangements:
Objects of Disciplined Empathy 8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and
the Post-Consumerism Object 9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the
Shakuhachi Flute 10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving
Permanence and Enduring Meaning 11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and
Sustainability 12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and
Spiritual Values 13. Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the
Meaningful 14. Epilogue
