Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind

Author:   Stuart Walker
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
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9780262048095


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stuart Walker
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780262048095


ISBN 10:   0262048094
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Resilience 7 2 The Dragrope of the Soul 9 3 Small Is Beautiful 23 4 The Nature of the Material 35 5 Attainment 39 6 Pasquinade 47 7 Appreciative Design 49 8 Design Criticism 69 9 Toward Resilience 89 10 Ten Ways to Create More Waste 105 11 Another Kind of Progress 107 Part II: Precedents 113 12 Resilient Artifacts and Activities 115 13 Resilient Home 127 14 Resilient Food 153 15 Resilient Culture 179 16 Resilient Play 219 17 Resilient Spirit 255 Part III: Resilience by Design 281 18 Design for Good 283 19 Truism 291 20 (C2H4)n Fever 293 21 Design after a Pandemic 295 22 An Intentional Act 305 23 A Tale of Three Birds 307 24 Design for Resilience 311 Acknowledgments 341 Appendix 1: Merrill's Rules of Rota 343 Appendix 2: Schadler's Rules of Latrunculi 345 Appendix 3: Rules of Nine Men's Morris 347 Appendix 4: Rules of Jacks 349 Notes 351 Index 393

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Stuart Walker is Chair of Design for Sustainability at Manchester School of Art, Emeritus Professor at Lancaster and Calgary, and Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. He has conducted research and exhibited his conceptual designs internationally. His most recent book is Design and Spirituality- A Philosophy of Material Cultures.

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