NEW DIRECTIONS IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Description

Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce readers to the larger challenge of what thinking sustainably might entail.Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sustainable design, this book develops a coherent theoretical framework for how theories of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of design. This book:

• brings together new and emerging perspectives on sustainability
• provides cohesive and jargon-free reading
• articulates the specificity of both theory and practice, to develop a symbiotic relationship which allows the reader to understand what thinking sustainably entails

This volume describes a variety of new ways to approach sustainable design and it equips the next generation of designers with necessary conceptual tools for thinking sustainably.

CONTENTS

Part 1: Principles

• 1. Letter to the Profession of Architecture
• 2. Art, Politics, and Climate Change
• 3. Interview with Janet Laurence on Public Art and Ecology
• 4. The Brunel Lecture 

Part 2: Ecologies

• 5. Ecological Modernism and the Making of a New Working Class: Living in a “Cradle-to-Cradle” Master Plan
• 6. Back to the Garden: An Ecological History of the Atlantic Yards
• 7. Building Recombinant Ecologies: Triangulating Policy, Models, and Design
• 8. Ecologies, Assemblages, and the Patchwork City

Part 3: Resiliences

• 9. Design From the Ground Up
• 10. Constructive Dialogue: Community Building as a Tool of Social Change
• 11. Interview with Durganand Balsavar of Artes-Human Development Center
• 12. The Politics Of The Southeast Asian Smog Crises: A Classic Case of Rentier Capitalism at Work?
• 13. Designing Resilience: Sustainable Design from a Complex Systems Approach

Part 4: Techniques

• 14. Technique is the Architecture of Sustainability
• 15. How is LEED Faring After Five Years in Use?
• 16. LEED After Ten Years
• 17. Interview with Christof Jantzen of Behnisch Architects
• 18. Reinventing the Wheels 

Part 5: Concepts

• 19. The Sustainability of Concepts: Knowledge and human interests
• 20. Undoing the Subject: The Makings of a Sustainable Life
• 21. Cultural Symbolizations of a Sustainable Future

262 pages / 19 x 24,5 cm