The nature of design : ecology, culture, and human intention
David W. Orr (Author)
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. This work is about starting things: an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter and livelihood, and deal with waste
1 online resource (x, 237 pages)
9780198033882, 9781602565081, 9781602567511, 9781423776864, 9786610560493, 0198033885, 1602565082, 1602567514, 1423776860, 6610560498
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1. Problem of ecological design
Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design
2. Pathologies and barriers
Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis ; Ideasclerosis, continued
3. Politics of design
None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; Politics worthy of the name ; Limits of nature and the educational nature of limits
4. Design as pedagogy
Architecture and education ; Architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; Higher order of heroism
5. Charity, wildness, and children
Ecology of giving and consuming ; Great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design