What Is a Systems Perspective?
Because sustainability requires a systems perspective, sustainable design must also address the system, whether it is a market, an ecosystem, a social system, or the entire world. This allows the …
What Is Sustainability?
What Is a Systems Perspective? 7 Diversity and resiliency 10 Centralization and Decentralization 16 Cooperation and Competition 21 ecological Vitality 24 social Vitality 26 Financial Vitality 30 Ап ecosystem of …
Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Despite how optimistic, idealistic, and future-oriented most designers are, design has sometimes created big problems in the world. Even where our best intentions have been engaged, our outcomes have often …
What Is Sustainability?
Design is in great transition, thankfully. Traditionally, design has been practiced with a focus on appearance, whether it is represented in graphic, interior, industrial, fashion, furniture, automotive, marine, or any …
Introduction
T his isn’t a book about sustainable design. Instead, it’s a book about how the design industry can approach the world in a more sustainable way. Design is interconnected—to engineering, …
DESIGN IS THE PROBLEM
Who Should Read This Book? I believe that design is how we change the world. Designers are incredibly optimistic people—believing that they can, absolutely, change the world for the better. …
