Design for Resilience - Stuart Walker Gebunden

A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring showing us not only how but why we should design differently. Design for Resilience is a timely visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses humanity’s most critical issue: climate change. Our current wealth-oriented economic systems have resulted in gross disparities war refugee crises and mass migrations that augur a bleak collective future. In this book respected scholar Stuart Walker combines formidable research with practical examples to offer a hopeful origi nal and transformative view of what resilient design looks like and how it can apply to all aspects of life from personal objects to food to culture to business to recreation. Working at the intersection of theory philosophy history environmentalism and justice Walker offers a fresh approach that decolonizes design thinking to fundamentally change the nature of design practice and how it shapes our lives communities and industries. Asking nothing short of the fundamental question How should we live? ” Design for Resilience addresses the high-priority issues that concern governments policymakers designers and people around the world who recognize that now perhaps more than at any other time in human history we need paradigmatic changes to create a future that lasts.