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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture

By: Victor Papanek

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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture

By: Victor Papanek

A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book examining the important role of design in combating climate change. Whether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative, Papanek argues for design that addresses these issues head-on. This means using materials that can be recycled and reused, no more pointless packaging, thinking about how products make us feel and engage all our senses, putting nature at the heart of design, working at a smaller scale, rejecting aesthetics for their own sake, and thinking before we buy. First published at the end of the twentieth century, this book offered a plethora of honest advice, clear examples, and withering critiques, laying out the flaws of and opportunities for the design world at that time. A quarter of a century on, Papanek’s lucid prose has lost none of its verve, and the problems he highlights have only become more urgent, giving today’s reader both a fascinating historical perspective on the issues at hand and a blueprint for how they might be solved.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500770719

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9780500770719

The Politics of the Artificial

Essays on Design and Design Studies

By: Victor Margolin

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The Politics of the Artificial

Essays on Design and Design Studies

By: Victor Margolin

Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens. One of the pioneers of design studies and still one of its most distinguished practitioners, Victor Margolin here offers a timely meditation on design and its study at the turn of the millennium and charts new directions for the future development of both fields. Divided into sections on the practice and study of design, the essays in The Politics of the Artificial cover such topics as design history, design research, design as a political tool, sustainable design, and the problems of design's relation to advanced technologies. Margolin also examines the work of key practitioners such as the matrix designer Ken Isaacs. Throughout the book Margolin demonstrates the underlying connections between the many ways of reflecting on and practicing design. He argues for the creation of an international, interdisciplinary field of design research and proposes a new ethical agenda for designers and researchers that encompasses the responsibility to users, the problems of sustainability, and the complicated questions of how to set boundaries for applying advanced technology to solve the problems of human life. Opinionated and erudite, Victor Margolin's The Politics of the Artificial breaks fresh ground in its call for a new approach to design research and practice. Designers, engineers, architects, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians will all benefit from its insights.

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University of Chicago Press

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022651837X

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9780226518374

The Struggle for Utopia

Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946

By: Victor Margolin

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The Struggle for Utopia

Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946

By: Victor Margolin

. Focusing on the difficult relationship between art and social change, Margolin brings important new insights to our understanding of the avant-garde's role in a period of great political complexity.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226505162

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9780226505169

The Green Imperative

Natural Design for the Real World

By: Victor J. Papanek

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Natural Design for the Real World

By: Victor J. Papanek

In this book Papanek looks at the exciting possibilities for the future if architecture and design were to become environmentally and socially responsible. He shows how people can contribute to the well-being of the planet through awareness of design.

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0500278466

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Book's by Victor Papanek

The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture

The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture

The Politics of the Artificial

The Politics of the Artificial

The Struggle for Utopia

The Struggle for Utopia

The Green Imperative

The Green Imperative

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