Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made environment - how it is produced, how it is used, and how long it endures. Despite some forty years of development and increased awareness of the critical relationships that exist between design decisions and modes of production, energy use, environmental impacts, the nature of work and human exploitation, design for sustainability is still not widely understood or followed. The Handbook of Design for Sustainability presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this crucial subject - its development, its methods, its practices and its potential futures.
Bringing together leading international scholars and new researchers to provide a substantive insight into the latest thinking and research within the field, The Handbook covers a breadth of historical and theoretical understandings and includes a series of original essays that explore methods and approaches for designers and design educators.
The Handbook presents the first systematic overview of the subject that, in addition to methods and examples, includes historical perspectives, philosophical approaches, business analyses, educational insights and emerging thinking. It is an invaluable resource for design researchers and students as well as design practitioners and private and public sector organizations wishing to develop more sustainable directions.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
General Introduction: Design for Sustainability
Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard
PART I: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Editorial Introduction
Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker
1 The Roots of Unsustainability
John R. Ehrenfeld
2 Post-Materialism
Freya Mathews
3 Making Sustainability Up: Design Beyond Possibility
Aidan Davison
4 Developing Theories for Sustainable Design
Dennis Doordan
5 The Emergence of Design for Sustainability: And Onward and Upward...
Janis Birkeland
6 I Miss the Hungry Years: Coping with Abundance
Albert Borgmann
PART II: METHODS AND APPROACHES
Editorial Introduction
Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard
7 Sustainability - Methods and Practices
Tracy Bhamra, Ricardo Hernandez and Richard Mawle
8 Integrating Sustainability in Design Education
Jacques Giard and Deborah Schneiderman
9 Sustainability, Consumption and the Throwaway Culture
Tim Cooper
10 Why Sustainable Consumers Don't Care Much about Green Products
Anne Marchand
11 Design, Sustainability and Marketing
Dorothy Mackenzie
12 The Role of Design-Led Knowledge Exchange in Supporting Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to be Eco-Innovators in the United Kingdom
Anne Chick
PART III: SUSTAINABILITY IN PRACTICE
Editorial Introduction
Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker
13 Architecture: Building for Sustainability or Spirit Nurture?
Christopher Day
14 Principles of Sustainable Dwellings and Community Design
Avi Friedman
15 Design for Territorial Ecology and a New Relationship between City and Countryside: The Experience of the Feeding Milano Project
Ezio Manzini and Anna Meroni
16 Sustainable Urban Futures
Rachel Cooper and Chris Boyko
17 Educational Experience in Design for Sustainability: Enhancing a Critical Perspective among Undergraduate Students
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
18 Sustainable Fashion
Kate Fletcher
19 A New Design Ethic for a New Reality
JohnPaul Kusz
PART IV: EMERGING DIRECTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Editorial Introduction
Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard
20 Sustainability and the Condition of Being Human
Alexander Manu
21 Sustainability: Context and Design
Shashank Mehta
22 Shè Jė - Change for Sustainable Futures
Lou Yongqi
23 Emotionally Sustaining Design
Jonathan Chapman
24 I am a User, Not a Consumer
Gijs Bakker and Louise Schouwenberg
25 Design Sleepwalking: Critical Inquiry in Design
Craig Badke and Stuart Walker
26 Critical Agendas: Designing for Sustainability from Products to Systems
Chris Ryan
27 Metadesigning Paradigm Change: An Ecomimetic, Language-Centred Approach
John Wood
28 Imagination's Promise: Practice-Based Design Research for Sustainability
Stuart Walker
29 Design Activism: Challenging the Paradigm by Dissensus, Consensus and Transitional Practices
Alastair Fuad-Luke
30 Design for Cyber-Sustainability: Toward a Sustainable Digital Future
Bran Knowles, Stuart Walker and Lynne Blair
31 Emerging Directions
Tony Fry
32 Literature and the Environment
John Ralston Saul
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