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Designers Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays

AUTHOR Chapman, Jonathan; Fletcher, Kate; Gant, Nick et al.
PUBLISHER Routledge (08/20/2007)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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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.

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ISBN-13: 9781844074129
ISBN-10: 1844074129
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 176
Carton Quantity: 24
Product Dimensions: 7.51 x 0.47 x 9.65 inches
Weight: 1.18 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Technology & Engineering | Industrial Design - General
Technology & Engineering | Development - Sustainable Development
Dewey Decimal: 745.2
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007009558
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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.

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Editor: Gant, Nick
Nick Gant is Co-Director of the Inheritable Futures Laboratory (IF:Lab)-a sustainable design research facility at the University of Brighton. He is also the Subject Leader of the Three Dimensional Design Programme at the University of Brighton and the Director of an award-winning design practice, BoBo Design.
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Foreword by: Fuad-Luke, Alastair
Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sustainable design consultant, facilitator, lecturer, & writer. He is author of "The Eco-Design Handbook" (2002, 2004) and "The Eco-Travel Handbook" (Sept 2008). He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, University College for the Creative Arts, University College Falmouth, and Royal College of Arts, all in the UK.
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Editor: Chapman, Jonathan
Jonathan Chapman is co-director of the Inheritable Futures Laboratory (IF: Lab) a sustainable design research facility at the University of Brighton. He is also Senior Lecturer in Three Dimensional Design at the University of Brighton and the founder of a sustainable design and research company, Safehouse Creative.
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