Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

"The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design considers the design, not only of artifacts, but of structures, systems, and interactions that bear our decisions and identities in the context of sustaining our shared planet.? In addressing issues of design for global impact, behavior change, systems and strategy, ethics and values, this handbook presents a unique and powerful design perspective.? Just as there are multiple definitions of design, so there are several definitions of sustainability, making it difficult to find unity. The term can sometimes be seen as a goal to achieve, or a characteristic to check off on a list of criteria.? In actuality, we will never finish being sustainable. We must instead always strive to design, work, and live sustainably. The voices throughout this handbook present many different characteristics, layers, approaches, and perspectives in this journey of sustaining.? This handbook divides into five sections, which together present a holistic approach to understanding the many facets of sustainable design: Part 1: Systems and Design Part 2: Global Impact Part 3: Values, Ethics, and Identity Part 4: Design for Behavior Change ??Part 5: Moving Forward ?This handbook will be invaluable to those wishing to broaden their understanding of sustainable design and students and practitioners of Environmental Studies, Architecture, Product Design and the Visual Arts.?"--Provided by publisher Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction 1 The political economy of design in a hotter time PART 1 Systems and design 2 Systems thinking for design 3 Design strategies for impact 4 Applied sustainability 5 Sustainable design for scale 6 Systems and service design and the circular economy 7 Ecological theory in design: participant designers in an age of entanglement PART 2 Global impact 8 Global perspectives for sustainable design 9 Politics and sustainability 10 Design for localization 11 Intercultural collaborations in sustainable design education 12 Life-cycle thinking and sustainable design for emerging consumer electronic product systems 13 Data clouds and the environment 14 Increasing urban sustainability using GIS PART 3 Values, ethics, and identity 15 Empathy, values, and situated action: sustaining people and planet through human centered design 16 Practicing empathy to connect people and the environment 17 Surrendering to the ocean: practices of mindfulness and presence in designing 18 Confronting the five paradoxes of humanitarian design 19 Codesigning for development 20 The Internet of life: changing lifestyles and sustainable values in fast- developing China and India 21 Fashion, the city, and the spectacle 22 Designing individual careers and work environments for sustainable value PART 4 Design for behaviour change 23 An introduction to design for sustainable behaviour 24 How design influences habits 25 The temporal fallacy: design and emotional obsolescence 26 Discourse design: the art of rhetoric and the science of persuasion 27 Using data visualization to shift behaviors 28 Securing sustainability: culture and emotions as barriers to environmental change 29 Nature- based design for health and well- being in cities PART 5 Moving forward 30 How many ways to design for sustainability? 31 The structure of structural change: making a habit of being alienated as a designer 32 Empowering citizens through design 33 Biomimicry: nature inspiring design 34 The value of the sharing economy 35 Going from STEM to STEAM 36 Design for the circular economy Index This handbook situates the design practice in relationship to systems, taking into consideration the power design can have in the influence of structures, systems, and interactions that underlie our decisions, values, ethics and identities.It presents a unique and powerful design perspective not found in other collections.