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Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind
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A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.Design for Resilience is a timely, visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses humanity’s most critical issue: climate change. Our current wealth-oriented economic systems have resulted in gross disparities, war, refugee crises, and mass migrations that augur a bleak collective future. In this book, respected scholar Stuart Walker combines formidable research with practical examples to offer a hopeful, original, and transformative view of what resilient design looks like and how it can apply to all aspects of life, from personal objects to food to culture to business to recreation.Working at the intersection of theory, philosophy, history, environmentalism, and justice, Walker offers a fresh approach that decolonizes design thinking to fundamentally change the nature of design practice and how it shapes our lives, communities, and industries. Asking nothing short of the fundamental question “How should we live?,” Design for Resilience addresses the high-priority issues that concern governments, policymakers, designers, and people around the world who recognize that now, perhaps more than at any other time in human history, we need paradigmatic changes to create a future that lasts.
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| Weight | 0.89 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 2.51 × 15.88 × 4.20 cm |
| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 0262048094 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Other text | “Stuart Walker’s new book is a must—and not only for designers. It truly offers actionable hope for a future that lasts for everyone.”—Karl Stocker, Professor, University of Graz, coauthor of Designing Sustainable Cities (with Sigrid Bürstmayr) “In addition to his fascinating theoretical argument, Walker offers a powerful perspective that touches our senses with a radically poetic originality. This book invites us to build other possible worlds through design.”—Mariana G. De la Rosa, Head of the Industrial Design Programe, México; President of DI-INTEGRA Mexican Association of Institutions and Schools of Industrial Design “This critical and engaging text takes the reader through an impressive array of theory and practice from design, science, and culture, with an optimistic call to action backed by persuasive precedents of resilient living.”—Bruce M. Hanington, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; coauthor of Universal Methods of Design and Universal Methods of Design “Through a deeply engaging analysis, reflecting on design’s foundations and developing propositions for its future, Walker calls for a more responsible, reflective, and ethically informed design practice, attuned to the complex and interconnected challenges of our time.”—Matt Malpass, Reader, Critical Design Practice, UAL: Central Saint Martins; author of Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practice |
| Table Of Content | Preface ix1 Introduction 1Part I: Resilience 72 The Dragrope of the Soul 93 Small Is Beautiful 234 The Nature of the Material 355 Attainment 396 Pasquinade 477 Appreciative Design 498 Design Criticism 699 Toward Resilience 8910 Ten Ways to Create More Waste 10511 Another Kind of Progress 107Part II: Precedents 11312 Resilient Artifacts and Activities 11513 Resilient Home 12714 Resilient Food 15315 Resilient Culture 17916 Resilient Play 21917 Resilient Spirit 255Part III: Resilience by Design 28118 Design for Good 28319 Truism 29120 (C2H4)n Fever 29321 Design after a Pandemic 29522 An Intentional Act 30523 A Tale of Three Birds 30724 Design for Resilience 311Acknowledgments 341Appendix 1: Merrill's Rules of Rota 343Appendix 2: Schadler's Rules of Latrunculi 345Appendix 3: Rules of Nine Men's Morris 347Appendix 4: Rules of Jacks 349Notes 351Index 393 |
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