The spirit of design
Subtitle: objects, environment, and meaning
By: Stuart Walker
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781849713634; 9781849713641
Subjects: Sustainable design; Environmental aspects; Product design; Human ecology; Material culture
Description: Imaginative design will be a crucial factor in enacting sustainability in people's daily lives. Yet current design practice is trapped in consumerist cycles of innovation and production, making it difficult to imagine how we might develop a more meaningful and sustainable rendition of material culture. Through fundamental design research, The Spirit of Design challenges a host of common assumptions about sustainability, progress, growth and globalization. Walker's practice-based explorations of localisation, human meaning and functional objects demonstrate the imaginative potential of research-through-design and yield a compelling, constructive and essentially hopeful direction for the future - one that radically re-imagines our material culture by meshing mass-production with individuality, products with place, and utilitarian benefit with environmental responsibility ... -- Book Description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.