| Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays Contributor(s): Chapman, Jonathan (Author), Gant, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844074129 ISBN-13: 9781844074129 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable design progress.This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines???professionals, students and academics. This challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the world??'s leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an authoritative anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Design - General - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development |
| Dewey: 745.2 |
| LCCN: 2007009558 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 7.51" W x 9.65" (1.18 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution. |