Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
|
Buy Now
Sustainability and Privilege - A Critique of Social Design Practice (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,071
Discovery Miles 30 710
|
|
Sustainability and Privilege - A Critique of Social Design Practice (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one
of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture. Its
advocates, focusing on the architect's creativity and good
intentions, are overwhelmingly laudatory, while its detractors,
concerned with the experience of its beneficiaries, have dismissed
it as an expression of cultural imperialism. Placed midway between
innocuous celebration and radical critique, Sustainability and
Privilege highlights the lessons that can be learned from social
design's current limitations and proposes a feasible way to improve
this practice. In this broad-ranging account, enlivened by
fieldwork and case studies, Gabriel Arboleda contends that social
design's invocation of sustainability often serves to marginalize
and displace vulnerable populations through projects that involve
experimentation of faulty alternative technologies, or that result
in so-called green gentrification, or that impose untoward economic
and other burdens. Arboleda is fiercely critical of the way social
design has been carried out in impoverished regions of the world,
most notably in Africa and Latin America. In addressing the
challenges posed by issues of privilege in social design's use of
sustainability, the book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach
called ethnoarchitecture, arguing for a simpler, open-ended, and
stakeholder-driven process that eliminates the casual imposition of
the architect's ideas on vulnerable populations, foregrounding the
people's voices, experience, and input in social design practice.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.