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The Spirit of Design
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Description
Through fundamental design research, The Spirit of Design challenges a host of common assumptions about sustainability, progress, growth and globalization. Walker's practice-based explorations of localisation, human meaning and functional objects demonstrate the imaginative potential of research-through-design and yield a compelling, constructive and essentially hopeful direction for the future - one that radically re-imagines our material culture by meshing mass-production with individuality, products with place, and utilitarian benefit with environmental responsibility. In so doing, the author explores:
how understandings of human meaning affect design and how design can better incorporate issues of personal meaning
how mass production needs to become integrated with localised production and service provision
how short-lived electronic goods can be brought into a more sustainable design paradigm
the changing role of the designer in a post-consumerist world taking a design-centred approach
a combination of creative, propositional design practice, reasoned argument and theoretical discussion
the book will impel readers to investigate the nature of contemporary material culture and its relationship to both the natural environment and to deeper notions of human meaning.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2011-08-25
Publication Date:
2011-07-18
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1849713642
ISBN13:
9781849713641
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Weight:
421 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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