Design and Nature: A Partnership

By: Louise St. Pierre and Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham

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Synopsis: Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world. Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers: • New design ethics of care • Indigenous perspectives • Prototyping with nature • Methods for new design and nature relations • A history of design and nature • Animist beliefs • De-centering human-centered design • Understanding nature has power and agency Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 216 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781351111492
Related ISBNs:: 9780815362739, 9781351111515, 9780815362746
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/28/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre and Mathilda Tham
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Kate Fletcher
Edited by:: Louise St. Pierre
Edited by:: Mathilda Tham