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

part 1|128 pages

The Four Perspectives of Integral Sustainable Design:

chapter |8 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter |2 pages

Part I Conclusion

part II|122 pages

Levels of Complexity in Sustainable Design:

chapter |5 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 7|13 pages

A Developmental View of Design History

chapter 8|7 pages

Design Awareness: The Six Essential Lines

chapter 9|5 pages

The 16 Prospects of Sustainable Design

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

part III|66 pages

Ecological Design Thinking:

part IV|123 pages

Designing Relationships to Nature:

chapter |4 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter 19|29 pages

The Nature of Nature from Five Levels

chapter 21|12 pages

Designing in Relationship to Modern Nature

chapter 23|18 pages

Designing in Relationship to Integral Nature

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion