Stuart Walker

Design for Life (eBook, PDF)

Creating Meaning in a Distracted World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Design for Life is an intensely original contribution that will be essential reading for design practitioners and students. Written in a clear, accessible style, it will also appeal to a broader readership, especially anyone who is concerned with contemporary society's rising inequalities and environmental failings and is looking for a more constructive, balanced and thoughtful direction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315312521
• Artikelnr.: 48210243

Autorenporträt

Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability at Lancaster University, UK. His design work has been exhibited in Australia, Canada, Italy and the UK, including the Design Museum, London. His numerous books include Sustainable by Design, The Spirit of Design and Designing Sustainability, also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. The Subject of Design: personal involvement and positive change
2. A Narrowing: loss of narrative unity and the nature of design change 3.
Counterpoints: restoring balance through design 4. The Shift: an inward
path to holistic design 5. Creativity: and the imperative of solitude 6.
The Mesh: freeing design from dominant dogmas 7. Rhythms: movement, making
and meaning 8. Seeds: designing for a new awareness Appendices 1. CONFESIÓN
- relic from a future past 2. Listening to the Muse - a personal reflection
3. The Inadequacies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 4. Related
Websites Notes Bibliography Index