Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world / Alastair Fuad-Luke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuad-Luke, Alastair.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Social aspects.

Design.

Sustainable design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse ran

Contents:

design activism beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Scoping the Territory: Design, Activism and Sustainability; Defining 'design' today; Defining 'activism' today; Activism and the Five Capitals Framework; The activism landscape; Activism in architecture, design and art; Motivation and intention; Issue-led design and the sustainability challenge; Defining the design activism space; Drawing lines between 'avant-garde' and 'activism'; A preliminary definition of 'design activism'; Notes

2 Past Lessons: A Short History of Design in Activist Mode, 1750-2000Design as 'giving form to culture'; 1750-1960: Mass production and (sporadic) modernity; Existenzminimum and other socially orientated housing projects by the Deutscher Werkbund; Bauhaus myths and realities; 1960-2000: From Pop and Postmodernism to Postmodern ecology and beyond; The Postmodern ecologists; The alternative designers; The eco-efficiency activists; What are the lessons learnt?; Notes; 3 Global-Local Tensions: Key Issues for Design in an Unsustainable World; A precarious balance in a changing climate

Resource depletionOil and peak oil; Essential minerals; Land for food production; Water for humans and agriculture; Ecological capacity and biodiversity; Unsustainable consumption and production; Social inequity, poverty and migration; Economic inequity and new visions of enterprise; Other significant issues; Notes; 4 Contemporary Expressions: Design Activism, 2000 Onwards Thinking about design activism; Thinking about design activism; 'Socially active design': some emergent studies; An emergent typology of contemporary design activism?; Another approach to contextualizing design activism

The critical role of artefacts in design activismActivism targeting the over-consumers; Raising awareness, changing perceptions, changing behaviour; Ways of making and producing; Eco-efficiency improvements; Contesting meaning and consumption; Social cohesion and community building; Miscellaneous activism; Activism targeting the under-consumers; Shelter, water, food; Raising awareness by education; Tackling health issues; Miscellaneous activism; Notes; 5 Designing Together: The Power of 'We Think', 'We Design', 'We Make'; Dealing with 'wicked problems'

The rise of co-creation, co-innovation and co-designThe open source and open design movements; The intellectual commons; Design approaches that encourage participation; Co-design; Notes; 6 Activist Frameworks and Tools: Nodes, Networks and Technology; People, people, people; Toolbox for online world; Existing design activism networks; Distributed collaboration; Ways of sharing visualizations; Ways of making; Toolbox for real world; Selecting the right kind of co-design event; Notes; 7 Adaptive Capacity: Design as a Societal Strategy for Designing 'Now' and 'Co-futuring'

Design for a better future

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-56847-6

1-282-17078-3

1-136-56848-4

1-84977-094-8

9786612170782

1-4416-1732-9

600-00-1525-9

9781849770941

OCLC:

432996809