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List of contents
Introduction
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
1. The Political Economy of Design in a Hotter Time
David W. Orr
Part 1: Systems and Design
2. Systems Thinking for Design
Diana Wright, Marta Ceroni
3. Design Strategies for Impact
John Bruce
4. Applied Sustainability
Wendy Jedlička, Jeremy Faludi, Dr. Pete Markiewicz, Tim Frick, Mark McCahill
5. Sustainable Design for Scale
Andrea Steves, Rebecca Silver
6. Systems and Service Design and the Circular Economy
Rhoda Trimingham, Ksenija Kuzmina, Yaone Rapitsenyane,
7. Ecological Theory in Design: Participant Designers in an Age of Entanglement
Joanna Boehnert
Part 2: Global Impact
8. Global Perspectives for Sustainable Design
Douglas Bourn
9. Politics and Sustainability
Harold Wilhite
10. Design for Localization
Helena Norberg-Hodge
11. Intercultural Collaborations in Sustainable Design Education
Denielle Emans, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt
12. Life cycle thinking and sustainable design for emerging consumer electronic product systems
Erinn G. Ryen, Callie W. Babbitt, Alex Lobos
13. Data Clouds and the Environment
Arman Shehabi
14. Increasing Urban Sustainability using GIS
Luiz Felipe Guanaes Rego, Maria Fernanda Campos Lemos, Luís Carlos Soares Madeira Domingues
Part 3: Values, Ethics, and Identity
15. Empathy, Values, and Situated Action: Sustaining People and Planet Through Human Centered Design
Bruce Hanington
16. Practicing Empathy to Connect People and the Environment
Theresa J. Edmonds
17. Surrendering to the ocean: Practices of mindfulness and presence in designing
Yoko Akama
18. Confronting the Five Paradoxes of Humanitarian Design
Brita Fladvad Nielsen
19. Co-Designing for Development
Maria Rogal, Raúl Sánchez
20. The Internet of Life: Changing Lifestyles and Sustainable Values in Fast-developing China and India
Leong B.D., Lee Y.H.B.
21. Fashion, the City, and the Spectacle
Dilys Williams
22. Designing individual careers and work environments for sustainable value
Cynthia Scott
Part 4: Design for Behavior Change
23. An Introduction to Design for Sustainable Behaviour
Casper Boks
24. How Design Influences Habits
Tang Tang, Seahwa Won
25. The Temporal Fallacy: Design and Emotional Obsolescence
Jonathan Chapman, Giovanni Marmont
26. Discourse Design: The Art of Rhetoric and Science of Persuasion
Marilyn DeLaure
27. Using data visualization to shift behaviors
Adam Nieman
28. Securing Sustainability: Culture and Emotions as Barriers to Environmental Change
Allison Ford, Kari Marie Norgaard
29. Nature based design for health and well-being promoting cities
Angela Reeve, Cheryl Desha, Omniua El Baghdadi
Part 5: Moving Forward
30. How many ways to design for sustainability?
Fabrizio Ceschin, Idil Gaziulusoy
31. The Structure of Structural Change: Making a Habit of Being Alienated as a Designer
Cameron Tonkinwise
32. Empowering Citizens through Design
Diamond James
33. Biomimicry: Nature Inspiring Design
Denise K, DeLuca
34. The Value of the Sharing Economy
Brhmie Balaram
35. Going from STEM to STEAM
Sara Kapadia
36. Design for the Circular Economy
Ruud Balkenende, Nancy Bocken, and Conny Bakker
About the author
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is a designer, artist, writer, and professor, whose work integrates technology, craft, and design. Her work focuses on sustainability and systems thinking in the context of behavior change. As an educator, she is involved in several initiatives to promote sustainability in both the design field and across higher education curricula. Egenhoefer is an Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco.
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design considers the design, not only of artifacts, but of structures, systems, and interactions that bear our decisions and identities in the context of sustaining our shared planet. In addressing issues of design for global impact, behavior change, systems and strategy, ethics and values, this handbook presents a unique and powerful design perspective.
Just as there are multiple definitions of design, so there are several definitions of sustainability, making it difficult to find unity. The term can sometimes be seen as a goal to achieve, or a characteristic to check off on a list of criteria. In actuality, we will never finish being sustainable. We must instead always strive to design, work, and live sustainably. The voices throughout this handbook present many different characteristics, layers, approaches, and perspectives in this journey of sustaining.
This handbook divides into five sections, which together present a holistic approach to understanding the many facets of sustainable design:
Part 1: Systems and Design
Part 2: Global Impact
Part 3: Values, Ethics, and Identity
Part 4: Design for Behavior Change
Part 5: Moving Forward
This handbook will be invaluable to those wishing to broaden their understanding of sustainable design and students and practitioners of Environmental Studies, Architecture, Product Design and the Visual Arts.
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"A timely book that (finally) situates design within a systems context. Diverse articles examine the social and environmental implications of designed images, artifacts, systems and structures in a globally inter-connected and interdependent world as well as the ethics and values that underpin them. Essential reading for designing responsibly in the 21st century." — Terry Irwin, Head, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
"This compelling collection is an outstanding resource for people who see design as a tool that can be used to create a better civilization, whether they be practitioners, students, researchers, or enthusiasts. Egenhoefer reminds us of our responsibility to use our professional skills and opportunities to not just do good design, but to do good!" — David Berman, RGD, FGDC, Sustainability Chair, Icograda/ico-D
"The comprehensive and anticipatory nature of this book is profoundly informative and operationally useful in ways that previous books have not been. It is by being so comprehensive on the front end that we designers can mitigate the Law of Unintended Consequences that has so often plagued the practice of design.
While this book is aimed at designers, it would also be useful for political leaders, policy makers and theoretical thinkers in any field. As a society, we are woefully silo-ed by profession, nationality and paradigm. This condition does not accrue to our collective benefit. Any approach that seeks to dismantle this myopic state of affairs will persevere. This book seeks to do just that." — Peter Dean, Co-Founder and Concentration Coordinator, Nature Culture Sustainability Studies Concentration, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
"We are only beginning to explore how design can create the conditions for net positive change throughout society. This handbook shows how design thinking is breaking out of its past boundaries to have a positive influence on all aspects of theory, practice and being." — Janis Birkeland, Professor, University of Melbourne, author of Design for Sustainability and Positive Development
"Sustainability does not have meaning independent from what needs to be sustained, and this need is an object of environmental, economic, political and philosophical contestation. It follows that the concept, and its associated practices begs vigorous debate. This book makes a contribution to the substance of such a debate." — Tony Fry, The Studio at the Edge of the World and University of Tasmania
"This is essential reading for those beginning to explore sustainable design. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer has taken a unique approach to illustrating both the breadth and depth of the field. The structure around five themes provides very different perspectives and enables the reader to understand how the approach of design and sustainability together can begin to make real change in the world." — Tracy Bhamra, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Sustainable Design, Loughborough University, UK.
"The Handbook of Sustainable Design pushes design beyond artifacts, common definitions and methodologies. Instead, it advances the discourse to a more impactful, holistic and systemic level, incorporating a much-needed variety of voices, perspectives, and ideas that challenge the designer’s ever-changing role and responsibility in a complex, interconnected and uncertain world." — Mike Weikert, Director, Center for Social Design + Master of Arts in Social Design, Maryland Institute College of Art
