Alastair Fuad-Luke

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Design Activism

An alternative, complementary outlook on the questions raised by this edition of the Biennale. Pluralistic in scope, thought provoking, and visually bold, Alter— is a collection on Alter-Realities as a way to re-make worlds, re-animate ourselves and forge new relations while rejecting unsustainable hegemonies.

With each of the installments, we aim to explore different sub-themes within Alter-Realities framed in Alastair Fuad-Luke’s curatorial agenda for the Biennale. We present fresh reflections on the present moment and better ways of being and creating with each other in times of crisis and contagion through the lens of design.

Alastair Fuad-Luke, Bianca Elzembaumer & Fabio Franz, António Gorgel Pinto and Paula Reaes Pinto, Paulo Moreira, and Nina Paim & Cherry-Ann Davies are the editors of the collection. The design is by the 1234 collective, composed by Irina Pereira, João Castro, Miguel Almeida and Serafim Mendes. The visual narratives found on the cover and inside the notebooks are by the artist Beatriz Blasi, in partnership with 1234, and were created using the Google Maps platform.

The Journals of Porto Design Biennale 2021

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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. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Design activists seek to fu.

Victor Margolin

Peter-Paul Verbeek

Guy Julier

Alfredo Brillembourg Tamayo

This book is the culmination of ten years of critical reflection on engaged design and the relation between design and society. The publication marks the conclusion of five editions of Utrecht Manifest, the biennial event dedicated to the social aspects of design, which was launched in 2005. Against the background of the five biennials, an agenda for the future is laid out in essays and interviews by leading thinkers and practitioners in the field. In this book, Victor Margolin, pioneering scholar in the discourse of social design, calls on designers, architects and educators to emulate the work of utopian visionaries such as William Morris, Walter Gropius and Richard Buchminster-Fuller and dare to envision what it takes to design for the Good Society.

Design for the Good Society

An uplifting and empowering guide to earth-friendly travel by the author of The Eco-Design Handbook counsels readers on how to minimize the daily impact of commuting on the planet, profiles two hundred ideas for eco-travel vacations, and identifies travel products from hybrid cars to green clothing and equipment.

The Eco-travel Guide

Following in the footsteps of the huge international success of The Eco-Design Handbook, here is the essential guide to eco-travel. The book considers the subject in every aspect, from daily commuting to global holiday, offering a key to designing your vacations and other travels so that they are green, enriching and enjoyable. This liberating, responsible and inspirational resource will heighten your experience, ease your conscience and help save our planet.

A Complete Sourcebook for Business and Pleasure

The Eco-travel Handbook

The Eco-Design Handbook is the first book to present the best-designed objects for every aspect of the home and office, including the most environmentally sound materials and building products. The book contains three essential components. An introduction puts forward the history and latest thinking in green design strategies. Its core comprises two sections devoted to detailed illustrated descriptions of objects for domestic living and products for the office or work-related activities. The third element is a vast reference source, defining available materials, from organic to specially developed eco-sensitive composites and then providing detailed information on manufacturers, design studios, green organizations, online information, as well as further reading and a glossary of useful terms and concepts. Lastly, a comprehensive index makes it possible for the reader to find any product, designer or manufacturer instantly.

A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office

The Eco-design Handbook

Design activists, a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyze positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilize the power of the design process.

This fully updated and revised book remains the most comprehensive publication on the market today to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the everyday consumer. Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world, The Eco-Design Handbook offers the most innnovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer friendly products for all areas of the home and office, including environmentally sound materials and building products.Whether you are interested in design or the sustainability of our planet, whether you are building a house or looking for new furniture, whether your office is buying stationery supplies or looking for ergonomic chairs, The Eco-Design Handbook is the definitive resource, invaluable for both the lay consumer and the design professional.

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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