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Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite
$52.50
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Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers. Whether you are involved in industrial design, graphic design or architecture, Design for Sustainable Change clearly explains the key theories and debates surrounding sustainability to allow you to adapt and integrate them into your own working practices.
Throughout the book, Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite explore how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the sustainability agenda. They also examine how the processes of design can provide methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organizations and wider society.
The debates around design and sustainability are all clearly introduced and explained using international case studies and interviews to put the theories discussed into a real-world context.
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Key features
Discusses how design methodology influences the way businesses and organizations address the issue of sustainability.
Includes insightful interviews with contemporary design practitioners.
Discusses the way in which design thinking is evolving and being applied to a much wider spectrum of social and environmental issues.
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Anne Chick is Professor of Art, Design & Architecture at Lincoln University. She is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada, as well as an Associate Editor of the Design Journal and a Design Studies journal referee. Paul Micklethwaite is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University, UK, where he leads the BA Design Studies and MA Professional Practice (Design) programmes. He is editor of Kiosk, a multidisciplinary annual of art and design.
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Reviews
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'Design for Sustainable Change is timely, clear and compelling. It's the ideal roadmap for any designer seeking an alternative to business as usual.'
John Thackara, Founder of Doors of Perception'An invaluable reference guide to the major ethical design themes of our time. With its lively format and succinct overview of concepts, ideas and case studies, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to grasp the complexities of sustainability and the role of design.’
Stuart Walker, Professor of Design, Lancaster University, UK‘Design is undergoing a revolution, and this book is an essential guide for tomorrow’s design revolutionaries ... This extremely timely book is essential reading for design students in all disciplines.’
Professor Mike Press, University of Dundee, UK
‘This book helps designers of all persuasions to re-imagine their own design futures ... Importantly, it adds another significant step in the negotiation of Design's own transitional journey.’
Alastair Fuad-Luke, Author The Eco-design Handbook & Design Activism'For anyone wanting a clear overview of the different approaches that designers might take toward a more sustainable future, this is a must read.'
Guy Julier, University of Brighton, UK'This book is an excellent general overview of how the global ecological crisis impacts the nature of design.'
Louise St Pierre, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada'This is a good compilation of material ... a readable introduction to this subject for architectural and design students.'
John Napier, University of Lincoln, UK'This is a great book for demystifying some of the woolly topics surrounding sustainability. The book is well written and the authors tackle some big themes within the text, yet these these topics are succinctly explained in manageable chunks along with numerous case studies, each of which are clearly explained. As such it makes it an ideal undergraduate text. The chapter on Design Thinking and collaborative approaches to design is particularly interesting and relevant to a new generation designers.'
Tim Bones, K College, UK'Students in all the design professions should read this admirable and wise book by Chick and Micklethwaite ... it is a fascinating explication of the philosophy of design that offers a vision of how designers should think and work and what design should be ... The accompanying case studies, a fascinating collection of local, national, and global solutions, show how design can address ecological and social problems ... This beautiful book is superbly illustrated.'
R. M. Labuz for Choice, Mohawk Valley Community College, USA -
Readership: Course Readers
978 2 940411 30 6
184 pages
100 colour images
300mm x 220mm
Paperback
May 2011
