Design for Sustainable Change

Design for Sustainable Change

How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda

by Anne Chick, Paul Micklethwaite

183 pages· 2011· ISBN 9782940411306
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Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers, whether they work in industrial design, graphic design or architecture. This book clearly explains the key issues and debates to allow students and practitioners to adapt and integrate them into their own working practices. "Design for Sustainable Change"explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the sustainability agenda. It examines how the processes of design provide methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organizations and society more generally. Throughout the book, Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite present debates around design and sustainability and the integration of the two. In-depth international case studies and interviews put the theories discussed into a real-world context. Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers, whether they work in industrial design, graphic design or architecture. This book clearly explains the key issues and debates to allow students and practitioners to adapt and integrate them into their own working practices. "Design for Sustainable Change"explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the sustainability agenda. It examines how the processes of design provide methodologies for driving sustainable change in businesses, organizations and society more generally. Throughout the book, Anne Chick and Paul Micklethwaite present debates around design and sustainability and the integration of the two. In-depth international case studies and interviews put the theories discussed into a real-world context.

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