Sustainability and privilege : a critique of social design practice / Gabriel Arboleda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arboleda, Gabriel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Social aspects.

Design.

Sustainable design--Social aspects.

Sustainable design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"With "sustainability" becoming an ever-less-meaningful buzzword in design disciplines over the past couple of decades, it's both shocking and bracing to see Gabriel Arboleda employ the term as a near-pejorative in light of what he sees as its implications of cutural imperialism and class oppression. In "Sustainability and Privilege," he contends, "Sustainability can be invoked for the marginalization and displacement of vulnerable populations through projects that involve experimentation of faulty alternative technologies, or that result in so-called green gentrification, or that impose economic and other burdens on these populations." Arboleda is fiercely critical of the way "social design" has been carried out in impoverished regions of the world, most notably Africa and Latin America. Importantly, he doesn't just criticize: he is prescriptive, proposing new approaches to social design and arguing for a simpler, more transparent, and more stakeholder-involved design process that will eliminate the casual imposition of the architect's ideas on vulnerable populations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Social Design

1. Social Design, Sustainability, and Imperialism

2. Is Localism the Solution?: On Local Social Designers

3. Localism: On Community Participation

4. The Challenge of Social Design

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Arboleda, Gabriel Sustainability and Privilege

ISBN:

9780813948003

OCLC:

1296530437