Designing Through Planetary Breakdown - Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill

Designing through Planetary Breakdown offers fresh perspectives on design's evolving role in the face of planetary change. This book is ideal for scholars, students, designers and craftspeople across design studies, design anthropology, repair and discard studies, craft studies and more broadly in the humanities and social sciences.

List of contents

Climate transition possibilities at design's edges: Labour, skill, care and repair PART I - SKILLS and CAPACITIES at DESIGN'S EDGES 1. On weathering and "climate-readiness": A strengths-based approach to adaptive practice in Western Sydney 2. Geographies of responsibility: Design and social sustainability in global supply chains 3. Craft skills as enablers of care 4. Repair-led learning for design education 5. Repair, save and reuse: Cuba during the Special Period PART II - CARE and GENERATIVE PRACTICES 6. Bangawarra Ngeeyinee Bayaba: Speaking with Bangawarra 7. Saving the loom: Tracing one machine's 20-year journey from strategic government investment to small-scale craft volunteerism 8.Care, disability and digital interfaces 9. Weaving with scraps: Skills, materials and innovation in Indonesia 10. Brick by brick, shell by shell: (Bio)material practices for regeneration, repair and resilience 11. Moisture, mud and monuments, or How to hold a cemetery together in torrential rain

About the author

Jesse Adams Stein is an interdisciplinary design researcher and historian specialising in the relationship between technology, work and material culture. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney. She recently completed an ARC DECRA Fellowship examining the connectivity between local manufacturing production, design education and vocational training in Australia, focusing on the 1980s to the present.
Chantel Carr is a human geographer and ARC DECRA Fellow in Geography and Sustainability at the University of Wollongong. Carr's research examines the social dimensions of decarbonisation and energy transitions across multiple spatial scales. Funded by the Australian Research Council and government partners, Carr's research has examined energy transitions in the built environment, reskilling challenges for workers in carbon-intensive sectors, and household sustainability practices.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Carr Adams Stein
• Assisted by: Jesse Adams Stein (Editor), Chantel Carr (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032781556
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278155-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Product Design, The arts: general issues, DESIGN / General, DESIGN / Product, Environmental Economics, Urban & municipal planning, Environmental Management, Technical design, Other manufacturing technologies, Engineering: general, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Development Studies, Purchasing & supply management, Production & quality control management, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Production and quality control management, Purchasing and supply management, The arts: general topics