Designing Better Futures
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Designing Better Futures
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Author : Mike McAllum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Designing Better Futures written by Mike McAllum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Designing better futures is a book that confronts the greatest question of our times and arguably the greatest question facing humanity; "how can cities and organizations, some with growing populations and all with aspirational ideals, navigate the turbulence and live within the constraints of the planet, while at the same time creating futures that are demonstrably better than what exists now?" What makes this book interesting is not just the challenge it poses but the roadmap it provides to help build appropriate solutions and more coherent actions than would otherwise have been the case." Designing better futures is for corporate leaders, policy makers and intelligent readers who understand that yesterday's successes are a poor guide for the profoundly reshaped global markets and patterns of consumer behaviour in the 21st century. It explores: why and how we need to think differently; the revolution in strategy and design now underway; the changes new technologies will usher in over the next two decades; what will make change successful in a world of compound impacts; the leadership skills we will all need to make this new reality happen at the speed required. Designing better futures draws together in a highly readable way, that is both simultaneously profound and simple, a rich and thoughtful body of emerging writing about the challenges and meaning of the 21st century.
Prototyping Across The Disciplines
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Author : Jennifer Roberts-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2021
Prototyping Across The Disciplines written by Jennifer Roberts-Smith and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Industrial design categories.
Fields of study progress not by understanding more about what already exists, although that is a useful step, but by making guesses about possible better futures. The guesses consist of small forays into those futures, using strategies that are variously called learning through making, research through design, or more simply: prototyping. While traditionally associated primarily with industrial design, and more recently with software development, prototyping is now used as an important tool in areas ranging from materials engineering to landscape architecture to the digital humanities. This book collects current theories and methods of prototyping across a dozen disciplines and illustrates them through case studies of actual projects, whether in industry or the classroom. Prototyping Across the Disciplines provides context, a theoretical framework, and a set of methodologies for interdisciplinary collaboration in design. Each chapter offers a different disciplinary perspective on prototyping and provides a case study as a point of comparison for identifying commonalities and divergences in current practices. In examining the central role of prototyping in design research, this edited collection demonstrates theoretical and methodological transferability across disciplines not typically thought to be related, including post-human design, theatre, tabletop game design, landscape architecture, and arts entrepreneurship.
Design For A Better Future
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Author : John Body
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-03
Design For A Better Future written by John Body and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
The world we live in is increasingly complex. It throws up complex problems. This book is about tackling them. At ThinkPlace, we’ve pioneered the application of design thinking to complex challenges like climate change, family violence and global malnutrition. We work globally with governments, organisations and communities using a methodology – the Design SystemTM outlined in this book – that has been developed over more than a decade. We bring together different voices and help them to create better futures. If you’re one of those voices, or would like to be, this book is for you. It’s part roadmap, part instruction manual, but mostly it’s a clarion call for a new way of doing things: tackling the world’s biggest problems in a way that brings people together and produces positive, lasting change.
Designing Suburban Futures
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Author : June Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Designing Suburban Futures written by June Williamson and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Architecture categories.
Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. Designing Suburban Futures offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant new, suburban form.
Urban Design Futures
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Author : Malcolm Moor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-27
Urban Design Futures written by Malcolm Moor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-27 with Architecture categories.
The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed. Urban Design Futures presents essays from an international cast of authors to review progress and explore emerging ideas: should urban design reflect the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and hence urban design in the future? This book explores new concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the twenty-first century.
Universal Design 2016 Learning From The Past Designing For The Future
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Author : H. Petrie
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2016-09-15
Universal Design 2016 Learning From The Past Designing For The Future written by H. Petrie and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with ART categories.
Universal Design is the term used to describe the design of products and environments which can be used by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. It is not a euphemism for ‘designs for people with a disability’, but really is about designing to include all people, regardless of their age, ability, cultural background or status in life. However it remains the case that many designers and developers fail to understand the need for universal design and lack the skills needed to implement it. This book presents papers from the 3rd International Conference on Universal Design (UD 2016), held in York, UK, in August 2016. The theme of the conference was: learning from the past, designing for the future, and it aimed to bring together policymakers, practitioners and researchers interested in the different strands of universal design to exchange ideas and best practice, review some of the developments in universal design from the last 20 years, and formulate strategies for taking the concept of universal design forward into the future. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1: About Universal Design, and Section 2: Universal Design In Practice. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves design, from the built environment and tangible products to communication, services and systems.
Designing Our Way To A Better World
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Author : Thomas Fisher
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Designing Our Way To A Better World written by Thomas Fisher and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Architecture categories.
Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems that seem to evolve naturally, systems whose failures sometimes seem as arbitrary and inevitable as the weather. But the “invisible” systems we depend on for our daily lives (in education, politics, economics, and public health) are designed every bit as much as the products we buy and the environments we inhabit—and are just as susceptible to creative reimagining. Designing Our Way to a Better World challenges the assumptions that have led to so much poor performance in the public and private realms: that our schools cannot teach creativity, that our governments cannot predict the disasters that befall us, that our health system will protect us from pandemics, that our politics will remain polarized, that our economy cannot avoid inequality, and that our industry cannot help but pollute the environment. Targeting these assumptions, Fisher's approach reveals the power of design to synthesize our knowledge about the world into greater wholes. In doing so, this book opens up possible futures—and better futures—than the unsustainable and inequitable one we now face.
Design Emergency
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Author : Alice Rawsthorn
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2022-05-05
Design Emergency written by Alice Rawsthorn and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with categories.
Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world's most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive Design Emergency tells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
Design The Future Simplifying Design Thinking To Help You
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Author : Shrutin N Shetty
language : en
Publisher: Shrutin N Shetty
Release Date : 2017-12-17
Design The Future Simplifying Design Thinking To Help You written by Shrutin N Shetty and has been published by Shrutin N Shetty this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Any significant event that has occurred in the history of man has always been about people. From global conquests to curing epidemics, inventing cars, space travel and even simplifying our daily lives with technology. Design thinking, the hyped but less understood mindset has intentionally or unknowingly been at the heart of innovations-from the simplest of them by individuals to make household chores easier, that no one might ever hear about; to those by groups of brilliant scientists, lone innovators and hordes of selfless social volunteers working on improving lives the world over. Design thinking is essential yet elusive as something like kindness or charity or even ethics and morality. This book aims at demystifying the seemingly complex but very fundamental yet essential mindset of design thinking to help you apply it to designing your business, your life, and possibly a better world.
Designing Your Life
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Author : Bill Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Designing Your Life written by Bill Burnett and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Self-Help categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.