Foresight and Design - Composing Future Places

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places presents conceptual tools to inform design and outline the need for designers to rigorously think about potential futures.

List of contents

1. Composing Futures 2. Grounding 3. Framing Case Study 1: The Enduring and the Ephemeral 4. Drivers of Change, Continuity, and Coherence Case Study 2: The McKinley Futures Studio 5. Layers of Change Case Study 3: Public Markets: Timeless Civic Form as Timely 21st Century Social Infrastructure 6. Composing Scenarios Case Study 4: Planning for Uncertainty in Afghanistan 7. Rehearsals Case Study 5: Pathways of Indigenous Futurism 8. Maps of Change 9. Pluripotency 10. Fictions of Place 11. World-Building 12. Stewardship of Place

About the author

Mark C. Childs is the author of poems, academic and general audience articles, and award-winning urban design books. He was a senior Fulbright scholar in Cyprus in 2005. Mark recently retired from serving as professor and interim dean of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico. He now lectures and consults.

Summary

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places presents conceptual tools to inform design and outline the need for designers to rigorously think about potential futures.

Product details

• Authors: Mark C. Childs, Childs Mark C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032148168
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214816-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design