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

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

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
• I. The Problem of Ecological Design. 1. Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design. 2. Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design -- II. Pathologies and Barriers. 3. Slow Knowledge. 4. Speed. 5. Verbicide. 6. Technological Fundamentalism. 7. Ideasclerosis. 8. Ideasclerosis, Continued -- III. The Politics of Design. 9. None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial / David W. Orr and David Ehrenfeld. 10. Twine in the Baler. 11. Conservation and Conservatism. 12. A Politics Worthy of the Name. 13. The Limits of Nature and the Educational Nature of Limits -- IV. Design as Pedagogy. 14. Architecture and Education. 15. The Architecture of Science. 16. 2020: A Proposal. 17. Education, Careers, and Callings. 18. A Higher Order of Heroism -- V. Charity, Wildness, and Children. 19. The Ecology of Giving and Consuming. 20. The Great Wilderness Debate, Again. 21. Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 019514855X; 9780195148558
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)50418286

Publication Statement

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

Physical Description

• Extent: x, 237 pages ;
• Dimensions: 22 cm

Table Of Contents

• I. The Problem of Ecological Design. 1. Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design. 2. Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design -- II. Pathologies and Barriers. 3. Slow Knowledge. 4. Speed. 5. Verbicide. 6. Technological Fundamentalism. 7. Ideasclerosis. 8. Ideasclerosis, Continued -- III. The Politics of Design. 9. None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial / David W. Orr and David Ehrenfeld. 10. Twine in the Baler. 11. Conservation and Conservatism. 12. A Politics Worthy of the Name. 13. The Limits of Nature and the Educational Nature of Limits -- IV. Design as Pedagogy. 14. Architecture and Education. 15. The Architecture of Science. 16. 2020: A Proposal. 17. Education, Careers, and Callings. 18. A Higher Order of Heroism -- V. Charity, Wildness, and Children. 19. The Ecology of Giving and Consuming. 20. The Great Wilderness Debate, Again. 21. Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design.

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