ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design considers the design, not only of artifacts, but of structures, systems, and interactions in the context of sustaining our shared planet. This revised edition introduces new and updated chapters, as well as a new section on pedagogy for sustainable design. With authors from around the world, design is positioned in context with recent crises such as global pandemics, racial reckoning, political unrest, and natural disasters. Just as design is an interdisciplinary field, the climate crisis is deeply tangled in racial justice, gender justice, global health, economics, trade, and more. Divided into six sections, it presents a holistic approach to understanding the many facets of sustainable design:

  • Part 1: Systems and Design
  • Part 2: Complexities of Sustainable Design
  • Part 3: Community Engaged Design for Local and Global Diversity
  • Part 4: Design for Sustainable Behaviors
  • Part 5: Design Futures
  • Part 6: Pedagogy in Design for Sustainability

Arguing that design needs to restore, regenerate, and rejuvenate our planet and people, this handbook will be invaluable to researchers, students, and practitioners across all subdisciplines of design, architecture, business, energy management, visual arts, and environmental studies, among others.

part 1|113 pages

Systems and Design

chapter 3|17 pages

Design for Sustainability

Reflections on a Dynamically Evolving Field 1

chapter 4|15 pages

Systems Thinking for Design

chapter 6|13 pages

Ecological Theory in Design

Participant Designers in an Age of Entanglement

chapter 8|12 pages

Surrendering to the Ocean

Practices of Mindfulness and Presence in Designing

part 2|103 pages

Complexities of Sustainable Design

chapter 9|16 pages

Gullible Consumers

The Contradictions of Sustainability 1

chapter 10|13 pages

Fashion, the City, and the Spectacle

Expanding the Role of the Designer

chapter 11|12 pages

Biomimicry

Nature Inspiring Design

chapter 12|13 pages

Plastics in Transition

Searching for More Sustainable Plastics

chapter 13|18 pages

Critical Jugaad 1

Sustainable Design Practices from the Global South

chapter 14|9 pages

Data Clouds and the Environment

part 3|125 pages

Community Engaged Design, Local and Global

chapter 16|13 pages

Empathy, Values, and Situated Action

Sustaining People and Planet Through Human Centered Design

chapter 18|10 pages

Design for Localization

chapter 21|14 pages

Co-Designing for Development

part 4|109 pages

Design for Sustainable Behaviors

chapter 25|21 pages

How Design Influences Habits

chapter 26|10 pages

The Temporal Fallacy

Design and Emotional Obsolescence

chapter 27|16 pages

Discourse Design

The Art of Rhetoric and Science of Persuasion

chapter 30|14 pages

Securing Sustainability

Culture and Emotions as Barriers to Environmental Change

part 5|148 pages

Design Futures

chapter 32|21 pages

Transition Design

Wicked Problem Resolution as a Strategy for Catalyzing Positive, Systems-Level Change

chapter 33|12 pages

Letting Go in Sustainability Transitions

Designing Spaces for the Unavoidable Companion of Change

chapter 34|18 pages

Shapes of Satisfaction

Rethinking Design and Designing for an Ecological Economy

chapter 36|16 pages

ReFuturing

New Prompts for New Ecological Visions

chapter 38|15 pages

Investigative Mingas

An Approach to Designing Sustainable, Pluriversal Futures

part 6|21 pages

Pedagogy in Design for Sustainability

chapter 40|4 pages

Teaching Design for Sustainability from Product Design to Design for Sustainability Transitions

A New Programme at Brunel University London

chapter 42|5 pages

Mindsets of Possibility

chapter 43|6 pages

Design Ecologies Exercise

The Innovation Landscape Matrix

chapter 44|1 pages

BCI Sessions

Be, Contemplate, Imagine

chapter 45|5 pages

Contextualizing Your Design Practice

Two Exercises for Design Students

chapter 47|3 pages

Sustainable Design Manifestos

Reflections, Reviews, and Calls to Action