Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term ’sustainability’ are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made environment - how it is produced, how it is used, and how long it endures. Despite some forty years of development and increased awareness of the critical relationships that exist between design decisions and modes of production, energy use, environmental impacts, the nature of work and human exploitation, design for sustainability is still not widely understood or followed. The Handbook of Design for Sustainability presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this crucial subject - its development, its methods, its practices and its potential futures. Bringing together leading international scholars and new researchers to provide a substantive insight into the latest thinking and research within the field, The Handbook covers a breadth of historical and theoretical understandings and includes a series of original essays that explore methods and approaches for designers and design educators. The Handbook presents the first systematic overview of the subject that, in addition to methods and examples, includes historical perspectives, philosophical approaches, business analyses, educational insights and emerging thinking. It is an invaluable resource for design researchers and students as well as design practitioners and private and public sector organizations wishing to develop more sustainable directions.

CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD General Introduction: Design for Sustainability Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard PART I: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Editorial Introduction Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker 1 The Roots of Unsustainability John R. Ehrenfeld 2 Post-Materialism Freya Mathews 3 Making Sustainability Up: Design Beyond Possibility Aidan Davison 4 Developing Theories for Sustainable Design Dennis Doordan 5 The Emergence of Design for Sustainability: And Onward and Upward... Janis Birkeland 6 I Miss the Hungry Years: Coping with Abundance Albert Borgmann PART II: METHODS AND APPROACHES Editorial Introduction Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard 7 Sustainability - Methods and Practices Tracy Bhamra, Ricardo Hernandez and Richard Mawle 8 Integrating Sustainability in Design Education Jacques Giard and Deborah Schneiderman 9 Sustainability, Consumption and the Throwaway Culture Tim Cooper 10 Why Sustainable Consumers Don’t Care Much about Green Products Anne Marchand 11 Design, Sustainability and Marketing Dorothy Mackenzie 12 The Role of Design-Led Knowledge Exchange in Supporting Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to be Eco-Innovators in the United Kingdom Anne Chick PART III: SUSTAINABILITY IN PRACTICE Editorial Introduction Jacques Giard and Stuart Walker 13 Architecture: Building for Sustainability or Spirit Nurture? Christopher Day 14 Principles of Sustainable Dwellings and Community Design Avi Friedman 15 Design for Territorial Ecology and a New Relationship between City and Countryside: The Experience of the Feeding Milano Project Ezio Manzini and Anna Meroni 16 Sustainable Urban Futures Rachel Cooper and Chris Boyko 17 Educational Experience in Design for Sustainability: Enhancing a Critical Perspective among Undergraduate Students Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos 18 Sustainable Fashion Kate Fletcher 19 A New Design Ethic for a New Reality JohnPaul Kusz PART IV: EMERGING DIRECTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES Editorial Introduction Stuart Walker and Jacques Giard 20 Sustainability and the Condition of Being Human Alexander Manu 21 Sustainability: Context and Design Shashank Mehta 22 She Ji - Change for Sustainable Futures Lou Yongqi 23 Emotionally Sustaining Design Jonathan Chapman 24 I am a User, Not a Consumer Gijs Bakker and Louise Schouwenberg 25 Design Sleepwalking: Critical Inquiry in Design Craig Badke and Stuart Walker 26 Critical Agendas: Designing for Sustainability from Products to Systems Chris Ryan 27 Metadesigning Paradigm Change: An Ecomimetic, Language-Centred Approach John Wood 28 Imagination’s Promise: Practice-Based Design Research for Sustainability Stuart Walker 29 Design Activism: Challenging the Paradigm by Dissensus, Consensus and Transitional Practices Alastair Fuad-Luke 30 Design for Cyber-Sustainability: Toward a Sustainable Digital Future Bran Knowles, Stuart Walker and Lynne Blair 31 Emerging Directions Tony Fry 32 Literature and the Environment John Ralston Saul INDEX