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

Summary

Titles

• Full Title: The nature of design : ecology, culture, and human intention/ David W. Orr.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231).
• 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.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 9780198033882; 0198033885; 1602565082; 9781602565081; 1602567514; 9781602567511; 1423776860; 9781423776864; 9786610560493; 6610560498
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)70010007

Publication Statement

• Place: New York
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Date: 2002

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 237 pages)

Table Of Contents

• 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.

Summary

• 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.

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