An integrative vision of the role of design in our interaction and relationship with nature.
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- I. The Problem of Ecological Design
- 1: Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design
- 2: Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design
- II. Pathologies and Barriers
- 3: Slow Knowledge
- 4: Speed
- 5: Verbicide
- 6: Technological Fundamentalism
- 7: Ideasclerosis
- 8: Ideasclerosis, Continued
- III. The Politics of Design
- 9: None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial (with David Ehrenfeld)
- 10: Twine in the Baler
- 11: Conservation and Conservatism
- 12: The Politics Worthy of the Name
- 13: The Limits of Nature and the Educational Nature of Limits
- IV. Design as Pedagogy
- 14: Architecture and Education
- 15: The Architecture of Science
- 16: 2020: A Proposal
- 17: Education, Careers, and Callings
- 18: A Higher Order of Heroism
- V. Charity, Wildness, and Children
- 19: The Ecology of Giving and Consuming
- 20: The Great Wilderness Debate, Again
- 21: Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design
- Bibliography
- Index
