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Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable design progress.This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines-professionals, students and academics. This challenging ... more

     

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      New: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK 9.685 by 7.441 inches. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (144 pages) designers, visionaries and other stories unpacks the compex and crucia debates surrounding sustainabe design to deiver a compeing manifesto for change, at a time of ooming ecoogica crisis, mounting environmenta egisation and imited progress. this is a book about sustainabe design, by the eading sustainabe design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionas, students and academics. this chaenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critica propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainabe tomorrow, today. the authors body present aternative understandings of sustainabe design, to curate a chaenging, sometimes uncomfortabe and aways provocative, coection of essays by some of the word? s eading sustainabe design thinkers. the resut is an impacting and poemica anthoogy that reinvigorates the cuture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the quaities of socia, environmenta and economic revoution. foreword-john thackara * introduction-jonathan chapman and nick gant * re-defining the purpose of sustainabe design-aastair fuad-luke * design redux-stuart waker * the scenario of a muti-loca society: creative communities, active *n*e*t*works and enabing soutions-ezio manzini * reative abundance: fuer? s discovery that the gass is aways haf fu-john wood * cothes that connect-kate fetcher * (in)concusion-jonathan chapman and nick gant'books ike this one have such an important roe to pay. ' john thackara, director, doors of perception 'these essays, by the most experienced design thinkers, hep readers keep track of changes and hone their abiity to prevent mankind from overheating. ' ed van hinte, author 'a rich and powerfu coection of essays. ' aidan rowe, university of aberta, canada '...these discussions wi assist expert and novice aike to reposition themseves for the future in a reativey new and deveoping discipine. ' joan farrer, senior research tutor at the roya coege of art, schoo of fashion and texties, uk 'a great read for anyone interested in earning more about how designers can be proactive when it comes to sustainabiity. ' dynamicgraphics, 2008. (Paperback)
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      Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable design progress.This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines-professionals, students and academics. This challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the world's leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an authoritative anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

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      • Media: Paperback Book, 154 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Earthscan Publications (Sep. 30th, 2007)
      • ISBN-10: 1844074129
      • ISBN-13: 9781844074129
      • Dimensions: 7.51 x 9.65 x 0.47 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.18 lbs
      • Categories: Sustainable Development General Industrial Design

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