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The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the
dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in
environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations
about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating
that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and
broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design
and ecological design might imply, this book presents case studies
ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century and from
Singapore to Mexico. It gathers scholarship on a broad range of
fields/practices, from urban planning, landscape architecture, and
architecture, to engineering design, industrial design, furniture
design and graphic design. From adobe architecture to the atomic
bomb, from the bonsai tree to Biosphere 2, from pesticides to
photovoltaics, from rust to recycling - the culture of nature
permeates the history of design. As an activity and a profession
always operating in the borderlands between human and non-human
environments, design has always been part of the environmental
problem, whilst also being an indispensable part of the solution.
The book ventures into domains as diverse as design theory,
research, pedagogy, politics, activism, organizations, exhibitions,
and fiction and trade literature to explore how design is
constantly making and unmaking the environment and, conversely, how
the environment is both making and unmaking design. This book will
be of great interest to a range of scholarly fields, from design
education and design history to environmental policy and
environmental history.
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