{"product_id":"spirit-of-design-hardback","title":"Spirit of Design - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eImaginative design will be a crucial factor in enacting sustainability in people's daily lives. Yet current design practice is trapped in consumerist cycles of innovation and production, making it difficult to imagine how we might develop a more meaningful and sustainable rendition of material culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough fundamental design research, \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit of Design\u003c\/em\u003e challenges a host of common assumptions about sustainability, progress, growth and globalization. Walker's practice-based explorations of localisation, human meaning and functional objects demonstrate the imaginative potential of research-through-design and yield a compelling, constructive and essentially hopeful direction for the future - one that radically re-imagines our material culture by meshing mass-production with individuality, products with place, and utilitarian benefit with environmental responsibility. In so doing, the author explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow understandings of human meaning affect design and how design can better incorporate issues of personal meaning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow mass production needs to become integrated with localised production and service provision\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow short-lived electronic goods can be brought into a more sustainable design paradigm\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe changing role of the designer in a post-consumerist world taking a design-centred approach\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea combination of creative, propositional design practice, reasoned argument and theoretical discussion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe book will impel readers to investigate the nature of contemporary material culture and its relationship to both the natural environment and to deeper notions of human meaning. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45576143405294,"sku":"9781849713634","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781849713634.jpg?v=1720965938","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/spirit-of-design-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}