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Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world / Alastair Fuad-Luke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2009Description: xxii, 244 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 184407644X
  • 9781844076444
  • 1844076458
  • 9781844076451
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.4 22
LOC classification:
  • NK1390 .F83 2009
Contents:
Scoping the territory: design, activism and sustainability : Defining 'design' today ; Defining 'activism' today ; Motivation and intention ; Issue-led design and the sustainability challenge ; Defining the design activism space -- Past Lessons: a short history of design in activist mode, 1750-2000 : Design as 'giving form to culture' ; 1850-1960: mass production and (sporadic) modernity -- 1960-2000: from Pop and postmodernism to postmodern ecology and beyond ; What are the lessons learnt? -- Global-local tensions: key issues for design in an unsustainable world : A precarious balance in a changing climate ; Resource depletion ; Ecological capacity and biodiversity ; Unsustainable consumption and production ; Social inequity, poverty and migration ; Economic inequity and new visions of enterprise ; Other significant issues -- Contemporary expressions: design activism, 2000 onwards : Thinking about design activism ; Activism targeting the over-consumers ; Activism targeting the under-consumers -- Designing together: the power of 'we think', 'we design', 'we make' : Dealing with the 'wicked problems' ; The rise of co-creation, co-innovation and co-design ; Design approaches that encourage participation -- Activist frameworks and tools: nodes, networks and technology : People, people, people ; Toolbox for online world ; Toolbox for real world -- Adaptive capacity: design as a societal strategy for designing 'now' and 'co-futuring' : Design for a better future ; Anticipatory democracy and the 'MootSpace' -- Appendices : 1. Key design movements and groups, 1850-2000: activist, but where, and for whom or what? -- 2. The millennium development goals, published by the United Nations (2000): goals, targets and indicators -- 3. Metadesign tools emerging from the Attainable Utopias Project -- 4. Slow design principles, philosophy, process and outcomes -- 5. The DEEDS core principles -- 6. Nodes of design activism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scoping the territory: design, activism and sustainability : Defining 'design' today ; Defining 'activism' today ; Motivation and intention ; Issue-led design and the sustainability challenge ; Defining the design activism space -- Past Lessons: a short history of design in activist mode, 1750-2000 : Design as 'giving form to culture' ; 1850-1960: mass production and (sporadic) modernity -- 1960-2000: from Pop and postmodernism to postmodern ecology and beyond ; What are the lessons learnt? -- Global-local tensions: key issues for design in an unsustainable world : A precarious balance in a changing climate ; Resource depletion ; Ecological capacity and biodiversity ; Unsustainable consumption and production ; Social inequity, poverty and migration ; Economic inequity and new visions of enterprise ; Other significant issues -- Contemporary expressions: design activism, 2000 onwards : Thinking about design activism ; Activism targeting the over-consumers ; Activism targeting the under-consumers -- Designing together: the power of 'we think', 'we design', 'we make' : Dealing with the 'wicked problems' ; The rise of co-creation, co-innovation and co-design ; Design approaches that encourage participation -- Activist frameworks and tools: nodes, networks and technology : People, people, people ; Toolbox for online world ; Toolbox for real world -- Adaptive capacity: design as a societal strategy for designing 'now' and 'co-futuring' : Design for a better future ; Anticipatory democracy and the 'MootSpace' -- Appendices : 1. Key design movements and groups, 1850-2000: activist, but where, and for whom or what? -- 2. The millennium development goals, published by the United Nations (2000): goals, targets and indicators -- 3. Metadesign tools emerging from the Attainable Utopias Project -- 4. Slow design principles, philosophy, process and outcomes -- 5. The DEEDS core principles -- 6. Nodes of design activism.

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