Integral sustainable design : transformative perspectives / Mark DeKay with Susanne Bennett, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeKay, Mark.

Contributor:

Bennett, Susanne.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable design--Philosophy.

Sustainable design.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 490 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2011.

Summary:

This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders.

It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives of: Behaviours, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern and Integral waves.

Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including:

twelve principles of Integral Sustainable Design;

sixteen prospects of Sustainable Design;

six perceptual shifts for ecological design thinking;

five levels of Sustainable Design aesthetics;

ten injunctions for designing connections to Nature. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Four Perspectives Of Integral Sustainable Design: Touching All the Bases of the Sustainable Design World

Introduction

1.Design Principles from the Four Perspectives

2.Exploring Deeper into the Behaviours Perspective

3.Exploring Deeper into the Systems Perspective

4.Exploring Deeper into the Cultures Perspective

5.Exploring Deeper into the Experiences Perspective

pt. I Conclusion

pt. II Levels of Complexity in Sustainable Design: The Four Contemporary Structures

6.Levels and Lines: The Development of Sustainable Design

7.A Developmental View of Design History

8.Design Awareness: The Six Essential Lines

9.The 16 Prospects of Sustainable Design

10.Unfolding Prospects of the Interior Perspectives

11.Unfolding Prospects of the Exterior Perspectives

12.Expanding the Design Self: Transforming the Sustainable Designer

pt. II Conclusion

pt. III Ecological Design Thinking: The Six Perceptual Shifts

13.The Shift from Objects to Relationships to Subject-Object Relations

14.The Shift from Analysis to Context to Analysis-Context-Ground

15.The Shift from Structure to Process to Unfolding

16.The Shift from Materiality to Configuration to Pattern Languages

17.The Shift from Parts to Wholes to Holons

18.The Shift from Hierarchies to Networks to Holarchies

pt. III Conclusion

pt. IV Designing Relationships to Nature: Metaphors and Injunctions for Deep Connections

19.The Nature of Nature from Five Levels

20.Designing in Relationship to Traditional Nature

21.Designing in Relationship to Modern Nature

22.Designing in Relationship to Postmodern Nature

23.Designing in Relationship to Integral Nature

24.Designing in Relationship to Transpersonal Nature

pt. IV Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

1849712026

9781849713122

184971312X

OCLC:

650827425

Publisher Number:

99947766738