Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic; complex; world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students; teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches; methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a designer. Design activists; who comprise a diverse range of designers; teachers and other actors; are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how; where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date; examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students; teachers; design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism.Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis;. It will collate; synthesise and analyse design activist approaches; processes; methods; tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and; in doing so; will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change; design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions; expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored; from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches; a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act; design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating!By Chrystal M. MorrisThese photographs of snowflakes are fascinating. To think that no two are alike is mind-boggling! Behind every creation is a Creator.... and this is just His busy-work!! If you look for it. you will find the Star of David pattern in many of them...some obvious. and some hidden. I am grateful to find even a used copy of this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. BeautifulBy acornAbsolutely beautiful. I fell like a little kid paging through looking at the pictures. They are amazing.10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful snow....life at its most fragile and ephemerial...By Noodles momNatures finest performance art abounds in these delicate photos of one-of-a-kind disappearing acts. Each one a treasure for contemplation; some so beautiful as to defy description (page 188 for instance). It is such a relief to NOT be bombarded with glitz and hard-sell so prevalent in everything our eyes come in contact with these days. Thank you to Mr. Libbrecht for his contribution to beauty for the libraries of time. As an additional exploration and compliment to this work. you should try any book by Masaru Emoto on snowflakes ("The Hidden Messages of Water" is fascinating); and check out Libbrechts field guide to snowflakes as well. To see them momentarily appear on your mitten in winter. and then revisit their splendor captured in print is a gift. You dont need a TV or VCR or an expensive wide-screen--all you need is the book. a chair. some light. and a good cup of coffee--be with yourself for a few minutes and have a conversation with miracles.
