The Designer's Atlas of SustainabilityIsland Press, 20 juin 2007 - 240 pages Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today.Yet architects, product designers, and other key professionals in this new field have so far lacked a resource that addresses their sensibilities and concerns. The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability now explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design-designers' choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world-but also the economic and cultural elements involved. The Atlas is neither a how-to manual nor collection of recipes for sustainable design, but a compendium of fresh approaches to sustainability that designers can incorporate into daily thinking and practice. Illuminating many facets of this exciting field, the book offers ideas on how to harmonize human and natural systems, and then explores practical options for making the business of design more supportive of long-term sustainability. An examination of the ethical dimensions of sustainable development in our public and private lives is the theme present throughout. Like other kinds of atlases, The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability illustrates its subject, but it goes far beyond its visual appeal, stimulating design solutions for "development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being indefinitely." |
Table des matières
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Ecology | 22 |
Economy | 58 |
Culture | 112 |
Frontiers | 178 |
Endnotes | 202 |
Credits and Sources | 214 |
Index | 218 |
About the Author | 227 |
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Page 211 - In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
Page 65 - Specifically, the GPI reveals that much of what we now call growth or GDP is really just one or three things in disguise: fixing blunders and social decay from the past, borrowing resources from the future, or shifting functions from the traditional realm of household and community to the realm of the monetized economy. Many readers might think of additions to the list of factors that the GPI ought 10 include — thus corroborating both the underlying concept and the conservative nature of our calculations.
Page 189 - In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before...
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Page 189 - ... detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers dO This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession's time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.
Page 206 - Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2001), 13.
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Page 31 - ... be fair and efficient use of resources with respect to meeting human needs (The Natural Step, 1996).