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The nature of design : ecology, culture, and human intention /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orr, David W., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.