Product Description

"Sustainable by Design" offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aesthetic experience. This book will introduce vital concepts to students and will inspire designers by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51647 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

Review
"'Definitely to be on the booklist of any product design course' Professor Jack Ingram, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design 'If visual language was the underpinning force for industrial design in the 20th century, sustainability will be its equivalent in the 21st... Walker provides the primer from which industrial designers can begin to make that necessary difference in the built environment' Jacques Giard, Arizona State University"

Jonathan Chapman, University of Brighton
"A fascinating book that takes the reader on a journey that is
both diverse and full or surprise."

About the Author
Stuart Walker is Professor of Environmental Design at the Postgraduate Department of the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. He holds an MDes (Royal College of Art), The Diploma of Imperial College and a PhD (Leeds). He serves on the editorial boards of several design journals, and is an adviser to the UK's 'Design for the 21st Century' initiative.