The Nature of Design
Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 October 2004
- ISBN 9780195173680
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 210x139x14 mm
- Weight 308 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An integrative vision of the role of design in our interaction and relationship with nature.
MoreLong description:
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste.
Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. Design in this sense is a large concept having to do as much with politics and ethics as with buildings and technology.
The book begins by describing the scope of design, comparing it to the Enlightenment of the 18th century. Subsequent chapters describe barriers to a design revolution inherent in our misuse of language, the clockspeed of technological society, and shortsighted politics. Orr goes on to describe the critical role educational institutions might play in fostering design intelligence and what he calls "a higher order of heroism."
Appropriately, the book ends on themes of charity, wilderness, and the rights of children. Astute yet broadly appealing, The Nature of Design combines theory, practicality, and a call to action.
"David Orr backs his talk with tactics and deeds that include his own actions. He convinced Oberlin College to construct a science building that 'did not impair human or ecological health somewhere else or at some later time.' That was a big order and not easily done, but he attracted and organized the multi-talented team that did it.... The chapter labeled 'Education, Careers, and Callings' is particularly fine, and presents...solid suggestions for doable changes in education that will be considered radical by many ecologically illiterate educators, but are certainly the way to go. Good stuff, easily read." --J. Baldwin, Whole Earth, Fall 2002
Table of Contents:
I. The Problem of Ecological Design
Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design
Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design
II. Pathologies and Barriers
Slow Knowledge
Speed
Verbicide
Technological Fundamentalism
Ideasclerosis
Ideasclerosis, Continued
III. The Politics of Design
None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial (with David Ehrenfeld)
Twine in the Baler
Conservation and Conservatism
The Politics Worthy of the Name
The Limits of Nature and the Educational Nature of Limits
IV. Design as Pedagogy
Architecture and Education
The Architecture of Science
2020: A Proposal
Education, Careers, and Callings
A Higher Order of Heroism
V. Charity, Wildness, and Children
The Ecology of Giving and Consuming
The Great Wilderness Debate, Again
Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design
Bibliography
Index
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