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Sustainist design guide : how sharing, localism, connectedness and proportionality are creating a new agenda for social design / Michiel Schwarz, Diana Krabbendam ; with the BEACH network.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 142 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9063692838
  • 9789063692834
Other title:
  • How sharing, localism, connectedness and proportionality are creating a new agenda for social design
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.47 23
Contents:
A. Sustainist design: what does it mean? -- 1. Social design in the era of sustainism -- 2. Looking at design through a sustainist lens -- 3. Sustainist design qualities -- B. Sustainist design practice: twelve cases from a changing field -- 1. The mobile phone as change agent -- 2. An end to landmines -- 3. Poo in the loo -- 4. Savouring the local -- 5. Urban resilience in a time of change -- 6. Craftsmanship with benefits -- 7. Sharing energy -- 8. Coming closer -- 9. Architectural activism -- 10. Leapfrogging scarcity -- 11. Game design in aid of medical science -- 12. Pigs as designers -- C. Sustainist design evolution: the paths ahead - Let's bring sustainist qualities into our social designs -- 1. Field notes -- 2. Guideposts -- 3. Moving forward.
Summary: "The Sustainist Design Guide presents an agenda for social innovation, based on values such as sharing, connectedness, localism and proportionality, as well as sustainability. It challenges us to transform these and other sustainist qualities into design criteria and include them in our design briefs."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references.

A. Sustainist design: what does it mean? -- 1. Social design in the era of sustainism -- 2. Looking at design through a sustainist lens -- 3. Sustainist design qualities -- B. Sustainist design practice: twelve cases from a changing field -- 1. The mobile phone as change agent -- 2. An end to landmines -- 3. Poo in the loo -- 4. Savouring the local -- 5. Urban resilience in a time of change -- 6. Craftsmanship with benefits -- 7. Sharing energy -- 8. Coming closer -- 9. Architectural activism -- 10. Leapfrogging scarcity -- 11. Game design in aid of medical science -- 12. Pigs as designers -- C. Sustainist design evolution: the paths ahead - Let's bring sustainist qualities into our social designs -- 1. Field notes -- 2. Guideposts -- 3. Moving forward.

"The Sustainist Design Guide presents an agenda for social innovation, based on values such as sharing, connectedness, localism and proportionality, as well as sustainability. It challenges us to transform these and other sustainist qualities into design criteria and include them in our design briefs."--Publisher's website.

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