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Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway
society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and
frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people
and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field's
established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying
psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and
waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the author asks: why do we
discard products that still work? He then moves forward to define
strategies for the design of products that people want to keep for
longer. Along the way we are introduced to over twenty examples of
emotional durability in smart phones, shoes, chairs, clocks,
teacups, toasters, boats and other material experiences.
Emotionally Durable Design transcends the prevailing doom and gloom
rhetoric of sustainability discourse, to pioneer a more hopeful,
meaningful and resilient form of material culture. This second
edition features pull-out quotes, illustrated product examples, a
running glossary and comprehensive stand firsts; this book can be
read cover to cover, or dipped in-and-out of. It is a daring call
to arms for professional designers, educators, researchers and
students from in a range of disciplines from product design to
architecture; framing an alternative genre of design that reduces
the consumption and waste of resources by increasing the durability
of relationships between people and things.
As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human
phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world
around us - for better or worse. The recent emergence of the
sustainability imperative in product design compels us to
recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age.
Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of
Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview
of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming
with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical
examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an
essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the
intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes
readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to
advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a
critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters
across 6 thematic parts, the book's contributors include the most
significant international thinkers in this dynamic and evolving
field.
Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and
crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a
compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological
crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable
design progress.This is a book about sustainable design, by the
leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of
all disciplines-professionals, students and academics. This
challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future
visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design
strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow,
today.Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents
alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a
challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative,
collection of essays by some of the world's leading sustainable
design thinkers. The result is an authoritative anthology that
reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has
empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and
economic revolution.
As a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human
phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world
around us - for better or worse. The recent emergence of the
sustainability imperative in product design compels us to
recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age.
Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of
Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview
of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming
with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical
examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an
essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the
intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes
readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to
advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a
critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters
across 6 thematic parts, the book's contributors include the most
significant international thinkers in this dynamic and evolving
field.
Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway
society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and
frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people
and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field's
established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying
psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and
waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the author asks: why do we
discard products that still work? He then moves forward to define
strategies for the design of products that people want to keep for
longer. Along the way we are introduced to over twenty examples of
emotional durability in smart phones, shoes, chairs, clocks,
teacups, toasters, boats and other material experiences.
Emotionally Durable Design transcends the prevailing doom and gloom
rhetoric of sustainability discourse, to pioneer a more hopeful,
meaningful and resilient form of material culture. This second
edition features pull-out quotes, illustrated product examples, a
running glossary and comprehensive stand firsts; this book can be
read cover to cover, or dipped in-and-out of. It is a daring call
to arms for professional designers, educators, researchers and
students from in a range of disciplines from product design to
architecture; framing an alternative genre of design that reduces
the consumption and waste of resources by increasing the durability
of relationships between people and things.
This practical introduction to stochastic reaction-diffusion
modelling is based on courses taught at the University of Oxford.
The authors discuss the essence of mathematical methods which
appear (under different names) in a number of interdisciplinary
scientific fields bridging mathematics and computations with
biology and chemistry. The book can be used both for self-study and
as a supporting text for advanced undergraduate or beginning
graduate-level courses in applied mathematics. New mathematical
approaches are explained using simple examples of biological
models, which range in size from simulations of small biomolecules
to groups of animals. The book starts with stochastic modelling of
chemical reactions, introducing stochastic simulation algorithms
and mathematical methods for analysis of stochastic models.
Different stochastic spatio-temporal models are then studied,
including models of diffusion and stochastic reaction-diffusion
modelling. The methods covered include molecular dynamics, Brownian
dynamics, velocity jump processes and compartment-based
(lattice-based) models.
Title: An oration delivered before the citizens of Boston on the
sixty first anniversary of American independence: July 4,
1837.Author: Jonathan ChapmanPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04113800CollectionID:
CTRG02-B889PublicationDate: 18370101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 24 p.; 21 cm
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ An Oration Delivered Before The Whigs Of Bristol County: At
Taunton, July 4, 1839 Jonathan Chapman I. Amsbury, Jr., printer,
1839 Social Science; Holidays (non-religious); Fourth of July
orations; Social Science / Holidays (non-religious)
This practical introduction to stochastic reaction-diffusion
modelling is based on courses taught at the University of Oxford.
The authors discuss the essence of mathematical methods which
appear (under different names) in a number of interdisciplinary
scientific fields bridging mathematics and computations with
biology and chemistry. The book can be used both for self-study and
as a supporting text for advanced undergraduate or beginning
graduate-level courses in applied mathematics. New mathematical
approaches are explained using simple examples of biological
models, which range in size from simulations of small biomolecules
to groups of animals. The book starts with stochastic modelling of
chemical reactions, introducing stochastic simulation algorithms
and mathematical methods for analysis of stochastic models.
Different stochastic spatio-temporal models are then studied,
including models of diffusion and stochastic reaction-diffusion
modelling. The methods covered include molecular dynamics, Brownian
dynamics, velocity jump processes and compartment-based
(lattice-based) models.
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