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New directions in sustainable design [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Routledge Ltd 2010Description: eBookISBN:
  • 9780203843031
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Partial contents:
Part I 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 II Ecologies -- 5 Ecological Modernism and the Making of a New Working Class -- 6 Back to the Garden: The Ecological Evolution of the Atlantic Yards -- 7 Building Recombinant Ecologies: Triangulating Policy, Models, and Design in Urban Infrastructure -- 8 Patchworks, Ecologies, and the Contemporary City -- Part III Resiliences -- 9 Design from the Ground Up: Risks and Opportunities in Humanitarian Design -- 10 Constructive Dialogue: Community Building as a Tool of Social Change -- 11 Interview with Durganand Balsavar of ARTES-Human Settlements Development Collaborative -- 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 Perspective -- Part IV 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 Architekten -- 18 Reinventing the Wheels -- Part V Concepts -- 19 The Sustainability of Concepts: Knowledge and Human Interests -- 20 Undoing the Subject: Deleuze and the Makings of a Sustainable Life -- 21 Cultural Symbolizations of a Sustainable Future
Summary: This book brings together new and emerging perspectives on sustainability. 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 a philosophy of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of sustainable design. In the context of design practice thinking sustainably involves a rigorous combination of philosophical questioning and a common sense solution approach to the problems such questioning produces. Here we are presented with a collection of different, jargon-free perspectives on how the practices and theories of sustainability create subjectivity. Divided into sections, it articulates the specificity of both theory and practice, whilst recognizing the manner in which philosophical thinking and design thinking are different, yet related to each other. By producing a pragmatic materialism, whereby theory is broached as a practical discourse, the authors argue that theory has material effects and describe a new way to approach sustainable design, so as to eqip the next generation of designers with the necessary conceptual tools in thinking sustainably.
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Part I 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 II Ecologies -- 5 Ecological Modernism and the Making of a New Working Class -- 6 Back to the Garden: The Ecological Evolution of the Atlantic Yards -- 7 Building Recombinant Ecologies: Triangulating Policy, Models, and Design in Urban Infrastructure -- 8 Patchworks, Ecologies, and the Contemporary City -- Part III Resiliences -- 9 Design from the Ground Up: Risks and Opportunities in Humanitarian Design -- 10 Constructive Dialogue: Community Building as a Tool of Social Change -- 11 Interview with Durganand Balsavar of ARTES-Human Settlements Development Collaborative -- 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 Perspective -- Part IV 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 Architekten -- 18 Reinventing the Wheels -- Part V Concepts -- 19 The Sustainability of Concepts: Knowledge and Human Interests -- 20 Undoing the Subject: Deleuze and the Makings of a Sustainable Life -- 21 Cultural Symbolizations of a Sustainable Future

This book brings together new and emerging perspectives on sustainability. 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 a philosophy of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of sustainable design. In the context of design practice thinking sustainably involves a rigorous combination of philosophical questioning and a common sense solution approach to the problems such questioning produces. Here we are presented with a collection of different, jargon-free perspectives on how the practices and theories of sustainability create subjectivity. Divided into sections, it articulates the specificity of both theory and practice, whilst recognizing the manner in which philosophical thinking and design thinking are different, yet related to each other. By producing a pragmatic materialism, whereby theory is broached as a practical discourse, the authors argue that theory has material effects and describe a new way to approach sustainable design, so as to eqip the next generation of designers with the necessary conceptual tools in thinking sustainably.