Focusing on the relationship between people and products, this book explores the reasons behind discarding functional items. The second edition includes illustrated examples, a glossary, and highlighted quotes, emphasizing a design philosophy that promotes emotional durability. By rethinking the connection between consumers and their possessions, it advocates for a more sustainable approach to design that fosters lasting relationships.
Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.
Exploring the evolution of ontological thinking over the past 900 years, this essay examines how scientific and technological advancements have shaped philosophical perspectives. It delves into the interplay between these developments and the transformation of ideas, providing a comprehensive analysis of their impact on contemporary thought.