Handbook of Design for Sustainability

Stuart Walker is Head of Design, Co-Director of the ImaginationLancaster creative research lab and Professor of Sustainable Design at Lancaster University. He is also Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada. His propositional designs have been exhibited at the Design Museum, London, across Canada and in Italy. His books include The Spirit of Design: objects, environment and meaning and Sustainable by Design: explorations in theory and practice.Jacques Giard is Professor of Industrial Design in The Design School at Arizona State University, prior to which he was Director of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Design FAQs, a university textbook on basic design and Designing: A Journey Through Time. He has also served as national president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers. Helen L. Walker is an independent language consultant with an MA in Education for Sustainability.

• CONTENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD General Introduction: Design for Sustainability Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard PART I: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESEditorial Introduction Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker1 The Roots of Unsustainability John R. Ehrenfeld2 Post-MaterialismFreya Mathews3 Making Sustainability Up: Design Beyond PossibilityAidan Davison4 Developing Theories for Sustainable DesignDennis Doordan5 The Emergence of Design for Sustainability: And Onward and Upward...Janis Birkeland6 I Miss the Hungry Years: Coping with AbundanceAlbert BorgmannPART II: METHODS AND APPROACHESEditorial Introduction Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard7 Sustainability - Methods and PracticesTracy Bhamra, Ricardo Hernandez and Richard Mawle8 Integrating Sustainability in Design EducationJacques Giard and Deborah Schneiderman9 Sustainability, Consumption and the Throwaway CultureTim Cooper10 Why Sustainable Consumers Don't Care Much about Green ProductsAnne Marchand11 Design, Sustainability and MarketingDorothy Mackenzie12 The Role of Design-Led Knowledge Exchange in Supporting Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to be Eco-Innovators in the United KingdomAnne ChickPART III: SUSTAINABILITY IN PRACTICEEditorial Introduction Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker13 Architecture: Building for Sustainability or Spirit Nurture?Christopher Day14 Principles of Sustainable Dwellings and Community DesignAvi Friedman15 Design for Territorial Ecology and a New Relationship between City and Countryside: The Experience of the Feeding Milano ProjectEzio Manzini and Anna Meroni16 Sustainable Urban FuturesRachel Cooper and Chris Boyko17 Educational Experience in Design for Sustainability: Enhancing a Critical Perspective among Undergraduate StudentsMaria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos18 Sustainable FashionKate Fletcher19 A New Design Ethic for a New RealityJohnPaul KuszPART IV: EMERGING DIRECTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURESEditorial Introduction Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard 20 Sustainability and the Condition of Being HumanAlexander Manu21 Sustainability: Context and DesignShashank Mehta22 Shè Jì - Change for Sustainable FuturesLou Yongqi23 Emotionally Sustaining DesignJonathan Chapman24 I am a User, Not a ConsumerGijs Bakker and Louise Schouwenberg25 Design Sleepwalking: Critical Inquiry in DesignCraig Badke and Stuart Walker26 Critical Agendas: Designing for Sustainability from Products to SystemsChris Ryan27 Metadesigning Paradigm Change: An Ecomimetic, Language-Centred ApproachJohn Wood28 Imagination's Promise: Practice-Based Design Research for SustainabilityStuart Walker29 Design Activism: Challenging the Paradigm by Dissensus, Consensus and Transitional PracticesAlastair Fuad-Luke30 Design for Cyber-Sustainability: Toward a Sustainable Digital FutureBran Knowles, Stuart Walker and Lynne Blair31 Emerging DirectionsTony Fry32 Literature and the EnvironmentJohn Ralston SaulINDEX