Designing the Just Transition : Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Damian, author.

Pevzner, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Just Sustainabilities.

Just Sustainabilities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book seeks to evaluate the design choices we might make in order to invent, redirect, or repair our existing material and digital cultures, infrastructures, and landscapes towards a post carbon future.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Praise

Contents

Figures

Prologue and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Resisting the It's Too Late-o-cene …by Design?

Designing and Planning Transitions

What Is Design?

Disciplinary Histories and Philosophical Anthropologies of Design

Design Politics, Design Labor, and a Political Ecology of Design

Why Imagining the Just Transition?

Plan of the Work

1 The Just Transition as a Social, Political, and Design Imaginary

Labor Environmentalism, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, and Tony Mazzocchi

Co-opting and Diversifying the Just Transition: Gender, Race, and Southern Perspectives

Design, Architecture, and Planning as Opportunity and Challenge for the Just Transition?

Challenges and Tensions in the Just Transition Framework

The Power Geometries of the Just Transition

2 Environmental, Ecological, and "Nature-Inspired" Design Histories

Nature as Map, Muse, Mirror, and Milieu

From Imperial Design Ecologies to the Bauhaus

Sanitary Design Ecologies

Olmsted, Howard, and the Garden City Movement

Regional Planning and Abolitionist Democracy: Mumford, DuBois, and the RPAA

The Counterculture Explosion Part I: Bucky, Brand, and the Whole Earthers

The Counterculture Explosion Part II: Liberatory Technologies of Solidarity-Bookchin and the Radical Technology Movement

Gender Blind Spots in the Alternative Technology Movement

Black Ecology/White Ecology/Apartheid Ecology and Alternative Technology

Papanek, Schumacher, Bonsiepe, and Maldonado: From Design for the Real World to Project Cybersyn

Political Ecologies of Design

3 Green Design as Threat and Promise for Architecture, Design, and Planning

Green Energy Technology and the Oil Shock's Reverberations.

Green Products and "Natural Capitalism": Eco-Design Goes to the Market

Green Buildings, Architectural Education, and the Resistance of the Architectural Avant Garde

From LEED and the Rise of Green Certification, to Building Performance and the Carbon Lens

Garden City High-Rises

Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Struggle for the Just Green City

Adaptive Reuse, Repair, Refusal

Beyond Greenwash

4 Labor-Centered and Worker-Centered Design for Just Transitions?

Redesigning the Workplace: William Morris's "A Factory as It Might Be"

Designing Workers' Palaces: Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin

Worker-Centered Design for Industrial Democracy and the Rights to the City

Invisible Design Labor: Gender, Race, and Socialist Feminist Design Histories

Invisible Labor, Colonial Ecology: S é rgio Ferro

Pro-Labor Computing, Worker Centered Human-Computer Interaction Design, and Platform Cooperatives

Labor- and Community-Friendly Designs for Circular Economies

Unionizing Climate Labor and Design Labor

5 Critical Design Studies, Redirective Practices, and the Labors of Co-Creation

The Rise of Critical Design Studies

Design as Redirective Practice

Design When Everyone Designs?

Transition Design and Designs for the Pluriverse

The Virtues of the Critical Design Moment

The Question of Labor in Critical Design Studies

The Question of Scale in Critical Design Studies

The Institutional Gap in Critical Design Studies

The Ongoing Challenges of Designs for Cocreation and the Scalar Politics of the Just Transition

6 The Green New Deal, Design, Planning, and the Public Imagination

The Many Lives of the Green New Deal

H.R.109-"Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal"

Design, Architecture, Planning, and FDR's New Deal.

Some Problematic and More Promising Design Legacies of the New Deal

The Green New Deal's New Public Landscapes

Energy Transition and the Public Power Debate

Housing, Urban Form, and the Green New Deal

From the Green New Deal to Build Back Better and the Inflation Reduction Act

Postmortems on the Green New Deal and the IRA

A Third Act for the Green New Deal?

7 Planetary Designs and Speculative Climate Design Futures

Design Futuring as Green-Theming and Decorative Ecomodernism for the 1 Percent

Designs for Climate Colonialism, Climate Haussmannization, and Dreamworlds of Eco-Apartheid

Design-Futuring for Green Social Democracy: Green New Deal Utopias

Eco-Communitarian and Solar Punk Maker Worlds

Design-Futuring for the Pluriverse

Designs for a Carbon Removal Society

Designs for Planetary-Scale Computing and Stack-World

Design-Futuring in Uncertain Worlds

8 The Politics of the Just Transition in an Age of Disenchantment

Transition Impossible?

China Shock/Electro-State?

The Populist Right, Climate Denial, the Climate Backlash, and Net-Zero Meltdowns

Climate Nihilism, Climate Realism and War Ecology

The Design Politics of Liberal Abundance

After the Backlash? Thinking About Radical Abundance and Red-Green Plenty for the Just Transition

The Impossible Project of the Just Transition

Notes

7 Planetary Designs and Speculative Climate Design Futures.

8 The Politics of the Just Transition in an Age of Disenchantment

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: White, Damian Designing the Just Transition

ISBN:

9781350332577

OCLC:

1593365972