Design and Nature

Name: Design and Nature
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780815362739
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A Partnership

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Design and Nature is a thought-provoking dialogue between the worlds of design and the natural environment, presenting 25 diverse chapters that explore new ways in which design can engage with nature. The collection challenges conventional views of design as merely a tool of capitalism and resource exploitation, advocating instead for partnerships with living species and highlighting designers' capacities for awe, integrated relationships, and new ways of knowing.

The book covers topics including new design ethics of care, Indigenous perspectives, prototyping with nature, methods for fostering new design-nature relations, a history of design and nature, animist beliefs, and the de-centralisation of human-centred design, emphasising nature’s power and agency.
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Ideal for designers, students, and professionals interested in sustainable design, environmental ethics, and integrating Indigenous and animist perspectives into creative practices.

Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

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Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, Design and Nature explores design ideas, opportunities, visions, and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource, and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships, and new ways of knowing. It covers:

New design ethics of care
Indigenous perspectives
Prototyping with nature
Methods for new design and nature relations
A history of design and nature
Animist beliefs
De-centering human-centered design
Understanding nature has power and agency

Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815362739

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 50 Halftones, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Kate Fletcher
Edited by Mathilda Tham
Edited by Louise St. Pierre

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 606g

Pages: 216

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Kate Fletcher is a Professor at the Centre of Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK, where she explores design for sustainability.

Louise St. Pierre is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, Canada, where she researches sustainability, contemplative practice and design’s relationship with nature.

Mathilda Tham’s work sits in a creative, feminist, activist space between design, futures studies and sustainability. She is Professor of Design, Linnaeus University, Sweden.