ABSTRACT

Design Realities explores a wide range of topics on creativity, design and spiritual well-being. Using critique, rational inquiry and personal reflection, Stuart Walker looks squarely at our contemporary condition, demonstrates how current assumptions and material expectations are becoming untenable and, most importantly, offers constructive new directions that are feasible, spiritually enriching, and hopeful.

Comprising short essays, lyrical pieces, photo studies and longer discourses, this book takes us on a highly readable and enjoyable journey through some of the most pressing issues of our time. The innovative, intuitive format makes these topics readily accessible, while providing much food for thought about the changing nature of creativity in today’s world.

Written by a leading thinker in the field, this highly original book offers readers something to ponder, discuss, contest and build upon.

part I|73 pages

Reality

chapter 1|1 pages

As it is

chapter 2|2 pages

A Competitive State

chapter 3|2 pages

Share Price

chapter 4|9 pages

Property

chapter 5|2 pages

Branded

chapter 6|2 pages

Inversion

chapter 7|2 pages

Unbranded

chapter 8|1 pages

Reality

chapter 9|3 pages

Prestige

chapter 10|1 pages

Icarus Falls

chapter 11|1 pages

Sellers All

chapter 12|2 pages

Waste

chapter 13|1 pages

Bypassed

chapter 14|2 pages

Fair Game

chapter 15|3 pages

What else is on?

chapter 16|1 pages

My next fear

chapter 17|1 pages

Time closed

chapter 18|1 pages

A Moment in the Life of a Reed

chapter 19|1 pages

Illusions of forever

chapter 20|2 pages

Local?

chapter 21|2 pages

Burying Your Dead in the Sand

chapter 22|1 pages

Air

chapter 23|8 pages

Carbon

chapter 24|2 pages

Becoming Human

chapter 25|2 pages

Internationalization

chapter 26|2 pages

Craft ’n Kitsch

chapter 27|2 pages

Modern and Traditional

chapter 28|2 pages

Design Think

chapter 29|1 pages

Enough

chapter 30|1 pages

Damage

chapter 31|7 pages

Seeing

part II|124 pages

Another Reality

chapter 32|5 pages

How should we live?

chapter 33|3 pages

Moderation

chapter 34|1 pages

Legacy

chapter 35|1 pages

Ashes of Myopia

chapter 36|2 pages

Closest to the Dreaming

chapter 37|2 pages

Fragile

chapter 38|1 pages

Being Alive

chapter 39|3 pages

Nature’s Wisdom

chapter 40|3 pages

Repeated Patterns

chapter 41|3 pages

Profits and People

chapter 42|3 pages

Return to Syros

chapter 43|1 pages

What reward have ye?

chapter 44|2 pages

Atomization

chapter 45|1 pages

Lost

chapter 46|2 pages

Authenticity

chapter 47|2 pages

Change

chapter 48|1 pages

Seriously

chapter 49|1 pages

New

chapter 50|2 pages

The Comb Shop

chapter 51|2 pages

Repair

chapter 52|3 pages

Resurrection

chapter 53|2 pages

Photograph

chapter 54|2 pages

The Human Touch

chapter 55|2 pages

Perspective

chapter 56|2 pages

Art

chapter 57|2 pages

Drive

chapter 58|12 pages

Elevator

chapter 59|1 pages

And more

chapter 60|2 pages

Economy

chapter 61|3 pages

Beyond Protectionism

chapter 62|2 pages

IP

chapter 63|5 pages

Commonality and Originality

chapter 64|2 pages

Secular Society

chapter 65|1 pages

Sacred Time

chapter 66|3 pages

Misreading Religion

chapter 67|1 pages

A Stultifying Dualism

chapter 68|2 pages

Faith

chapter 69|1 pages

Rubens’ Jesus

chapter 70|3 pages

Enculturated Blindness

chapter 71|4 pages

A Christmas Story

chapter 72|11 pages

Mythic Objects

chapter 73|17 pages

Another Reality

part III|95 pages

A Future Reality

chapter 74|94 pages

A Wisdom Economy

chapter 75|3 pages

Fair Share

chapter 76|2 pages

Design Rhapsody

chapter 77|3 pages

Spiritual Renewal

chapter 78|2 pages

Cultural Highs and Lows

chapter 79|4 pages

Improving Things

chapter 80|1 pages

Moving on

chapter 81|2 pages

One Manifestation of Wisdom

chapter 82|2 pages

Why

chapter 83|1 pages

After this?

chapter 84|1 pages

A Creative Life

chapter 85|2 pages

Delicate, Evanescent Things

chapter 86|1 pages

Useless Things

chapter 87|2 pages

Dying to Create

chapter 88|1 pages

Live

chapter 89|2 pages

RAW Design

chapter 90|3 pages

Ruination

chapter 91|3 pages

Rejuvenation

chapter 92|4 pages

Things that Endure

chapter 93|3 pages

The Mark Made

chapter 94|2 pages

Handmade

chapter 95|2 pages

Whittling

chapter 96|2 pages

Foraging

chapter 97|11 pages

Artefacts

chapter 98|1 pages

Life

chapter 99|3 pages

Improvisation

chapter 100|26 pages

Progressive Design Praxis