Design Roots

Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability at Lancaster University, UK.Martyn Evans is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Tom Cassidy is Chair of Design at the University of Leeds, UK.Jeyon Jung is Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK.Amy Twigger Holroyd is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

I savoured each bite-size essay and its ideas until the elephant was consumed. I then sat back and enjoyed the satisfaction of an admirable accomplishment. I would recommend this edited volume to thinking practitioners and researchers looking for inspiration – it is full of ideas worth pursuing. It takes head on a large challenge and offers illumination along a path forward.

• Editorial Introduction, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)Part IIntroduction: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)1. Creative Ecologies: Contextualising Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Jeyon Jung and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)2. Forging New Futures: Cultural Significance, Revitalisation and Authenticity, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)3. Culturally Significant Artefacts and Their Relationship to Tradition and Sustainability, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)4. Making and its Cultural Ecological Foundations, Patrick Dillon (University of Exeter, UK)Part IIIntroduction: Authenticity and Tradition in Material Culture, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)5. The Aran Jumper, Siún Carden (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)6. Chok Weaving and Textile Enterprises from Northern Thailand, Disaya Chudasri (Lancaster University, UK)7. Oltu-Stone Prayer Beads: A Journey into the Art of Carving Tasbih, Hazal Gümüs Çiftçi (Lancaster University, UK)8. The Mian Sara: Traditional Iranian Homes and Sustainability, Poone Yazdanpanah and Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK)9. IKEA: Mass-produced National Design Identity, Sara S. Kristoffersson (Konstfack University College, Sweden)Part IIIIntroduction: Revitalisation by Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)10. Culture as a Resource for a Sustainable Future in Indigenous Communities: Strengthening Atikamekw Identity and Economics through Design, Anne Marchand, Karine Awashish, Christian Coocoo, Solen Roth, Renata Marques Leitão, Cédric Sportes and Caoimhe Isha Beaulé (University of Montreal, Canada)11. Transforming Tradition in Indonesia: A Method for Maintaining Tradition in a Craft and Design Context, Adhi Nugraha (Aalto University, Finland)12. New Translations of South Korean Patterns, Meong Jin Shin (University of Leeds, UK)13. Revitalisation by Design, Sebastian Cox (Sebastian Cox Ltd, UK)14. New Caribbean Design: Revitalising Place-based Products, Patty Johnson (Patty Johnson Design, Canada)Part IVIntroduction: Enterprise, Policy and Education for Positive Development, Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK)15. Sustaining Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices: Lessons from the Hohokam, Jacques Giard (Arizona State University, USA)16. Accidents, Intentions, Movements and Makers: Artisan Economy in Portland, Oregon, USA,Steven Marotta, Austin Cummins and Charles Heying (Portland State University, USA)17. The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Culturally Significant Crafts in Estonia, Sirpa Kokko (University of Helsinki, Finland)18. The Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights for Culturally Significant Patterns, Products and Processes, Tom Cassidy and Tracy Diane Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)19. The Case of the City Different: The Intersection of the Museum, the Artist and the Marketplace, Marsha C. Bol (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA)Part VIntroduction: Design Futures, Stuart Walker (Lancaster University, UK) and Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)20. Research Approaches for Culturally Significant Design, Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)21. Digital Transformations, Amateur Making and the Revitalisation of Traditional Textile Crafts, Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK)22. Design for Social Innovators, Anna Meroni and Daniela Selloni (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)23. Integrated Scales of Design and Production for Sustainability with a Focus on Graduate Design Work in Lighting, Çagla Dogan (Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey)24. Designing Authentic Brands: How Designerly Approaches can Craft Authentic Brand Identity, Emma Murphy (Glasgow School of Art, UK)25. Strategies for Revitalisation of Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices, Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Stuart Walker and Jeyon Jung (Lancaster University, UK) and Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK)Index