Imaginative design will be a crucial factor in enacting
sustainability in people's daily lives. Yet current design practice
is trapped in consumerist cycles of innovation and production,
making it difficult to imagine how we might develop a more
meaningful and sustainable rendition of material culture.
Through fundamental design research, The Spirit of Design
challenges a host of common assumptions about sustainability,
progress, growth and globalization. Walker's practice-based
explorations of localisation, human meaning and functional objects
demonstrate the imaginative potential of research-through-design
and yield a compelling, constructive and essentially hopeful
direction for the future - one that radically re-imagines our
material culture by meshing mass-production with individuality,
products with place, and utilitarian benefit with environmental
responsibility. In so doing, the author explores:
- how understandings of human meaning affect design and how
design can better incorporate issues of personal meaning
- how mass production needs to become integrated with localised
production and service provision
- how short-lived electronic goods can be brought into a more
sustainable design paradigm
- the changing role of the designer in a post-consumerist world
taking a design-centred approach
- a combination of creative, propositional design practice,
reasoned argument and theoretical discussion
- the book will impel readers to investigate the nature of
contemporary material culture and its relationship to both the
natural environment and to deeper notions of human meaning.
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