ABSTRACT
This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives of: Behaviours, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Integral waves. Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including: - Twelve Principles of Integral Sustainable Design - Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design - Six Perceptual Shifts for Ecological Design Thinking - Five Levels of Sustainable Design Aesthetics - Ten Injunctions for Designing Connections to Nature
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I The Four Perspectives Of Integral Sustainable Design: Touching All the Bases of the Sustainable Design World
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Part II Levels of Complexity in Sustainable Design: The Four Contemporary Structures
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Part III Ecological Design Thinking: The Six Perceptual Shifts
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Part IV Designing Relationships to Nature: Metaphors and Injunctions for Deep Connections