Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm, which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Design activists seek to fu
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Figures and Tables; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 Scoping the Territory: Design, Activism and Sustainability; Chapter 2 Past Lessons: A Short History of Design in Activist Mode, 1750-2000; Chapter 3 Global-Local Tensions: Key Issues for Design in an Unsustainable World; Chapter 4 Contemporary Expressions: Design Activism, 2000 Onwards; Chapter 5 Designing Together: The Power of 'We Think', 'We Design', 'We Make'; Chapter 6 Activist Frameworks and Tools: Nodes, Networks and Technology
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011