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) and index.
• I. Problem of ecological design. Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design -- II. Pathologies and barriers. Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis ; Ideasclerosis, continued -- III. Politics of design. None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; A politics worthy of the name ; The limits of nature and the educational nature of limits -- IV. Design as pedagogy. Architecture and education ; The architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; A higher order of heroism -- V. Charity, wildness, and children. The ecology of giving and consuming ; The great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 019514855X; 0195173686; 9780195148558; 9780195173680
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)1008435229

Publication Statement

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

Physical Description

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

Table Of Contents

• I. Problem of ecological design. Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design -- II. Pathologies and barriers. Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis ; Ideasclerosis, continued -- III. Politics of design. None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; A politics worthy of the name ; The limits of nature and the educational nature of limits -- IV. Design as pedagogy. Architecture and education ; The architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; A higher order of heroism -- V. Charity, wildness, and children. The ecology of giving and consuming ; The great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design.

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