Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda (Required Reading Range) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 44: Required Reading Range

Chick, Anne; Micklethwaite, Paul

 
9782940411306: Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda (Required Reading Range)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 2940411301 ISBN 13: 9782940411306
Verlag: AVA Publishing, 2011

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This title examines how familiar design processes can be translated into methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organisations and society more generally.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Chick is director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre at Kingston University, UK. Until recently, she was director of the Sustainability in Practice Network within WestFocus (a consortium of seven universities). She is adjunct professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada, an associate editor of the Design Journal and a Design Studies journal referee. Paul Micklethwaite is a research fellow in sustainable design at Kingston University. Paul undertakes research, knowledge transfer, and enterprise activities across a wide range of areas within sustainable design. His areas of research interest include design and manufacture with recycled materials and 'green' branding.

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Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers, whether they work in industrial design, graphic design or architecture. This book clearly explains the key issues and debates to allow students and practitioners to adapt and integrate them into their own working practices.

Design for Sustainable Change explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the sustainability agenda. It examines how the processes of design provide methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organizations and society more generally. Throughout the book, Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite present debates around design and sustainability and the integration of the two. In-depth international case studies and interviews put the theories discussed into a real-world context.

Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers, whether they work in industrial design, graphic design or architecture. This book clearly explains the key issues and debates to allow students and practitioners to adapt and integrate them into their own working practices.

Design for Sustainable Change explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the sustainability agenda. It examines how the processes of design provide methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organizations and society more generally. Throughout the book, Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite present debates around design and sustainability and the integration of the two. In-depth international case studies and interviews put the theories discussed into a real-world context.

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Verlag
AVA Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
2940411301
ISBN 13 
9782940411306
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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