Description
This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today’s diverse stakeholders.
It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives of: Behaviours, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Integral waves.
Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including:
- Twelve Principles of Integral Sustainable Design
- Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design
- Six Perceptual Shifts for Ecological Design Thinking
- Five Levels of Sustainable Design Aesthetics
- Ten Injunctions for Designing Connections to Nature
CONTENTS
Touching all the bases of the Sustainable Design World
- Design Principles from the Four Perspectives
- Exploring Deeper Into the Behaviors Perspective
- Exploring Deeper Into the Systems Perspective
- Exploring Deeper Into the Cultures Perspective
- Exploring Deeper Into the Experiences Perspective
Levels Of Complexity In Sustainable Design
The four contemporary structures
- Levels and Lines: The Development of Sustainable Design
- A Developmental View of Design History
- Design Awareness: The Six Essential Lines
- The Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design
- Unfolding Prospects of the Interior Perspectives
- Unfolding Prospects of the Exterior Perspectives
- Expanding the Design Self: Transforming the Sustainable Designer
Ecological Design Thinking
The Six Perceptual Shifts
- The Shift from Objects to Relationships to Subject-Object Relations
- The Shift from Analysis to Context to Analysis-Context-Ground
- The Shift from Structure to Process to Unfolding
- The Shift from Materiality to Configuration to Pattern Languages
- The Shift from Parts to Wholes to Holons
- The Shift from Hierarchies to Networks to Holarchies
Designing Relationships to Nature
Metaphors and injunctions for deep connections
- The Nature of Nature from Five Levels
- Designing in Relationship to Traditional Nature
- Designing in Relationship to Modern Nature
- Designing in Relationship to Postmodern Nature
- Designing in Relationship to Integral Nature
- Designing in Relationship to Transcendent Nature
528 pages, color ills / 15,5 x 23,5 cm / English
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