Product Description

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 legislations and limited sustainable design progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines - professionals, students and academics. This challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today. Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the world's leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102439 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Jonathan Chapman and Nick Gant are co-directors of the Inheritable Futures Laboratory (IF:Lab) - a sustainable design research facility at the University of Brighton, UK. Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in Three Dimensional Design at the University of Brighton and founder of sustainable design and research company Safehouse Creative. Nick is the Subject Leader of the Three Dimensional Design programme at the University of Brighton and director of award-winning design practice BoBo Design.