Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.The authors boldly present alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the worlds leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an impacting and polemical anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that, in previous years, has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword-John Thackara
• Acknowledgements
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Re-defining the Purpose of [Sustainable] Design: Enter the Design Enablers, Catalysts in Co-Design
• 3 Design
• 4 The Scenario of a Multi-Local Society: Creative Communities, Active Networks and Enabling Solutions
• 5 Relative Abundance: Fuller's discovery That the Glass is Always Half Full
• 6 Clothes that Connect
• 7 (In)conclusion