Nature of Design Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

Name: Nature of Design Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
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ISBN: 9780195173680

ISBN-10: 0195173686

ISBN-13: 9780195173680

Edition: 2004

Authors: David W. Orr

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The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. Design in this sense is a large concept having to do as much with politics and ethics as with buildings and technology. The book begins by describing the scope of design, comparing it to the Enlightenment of the 18th century.…

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and the author of The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention, The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, and Ecological Literacy.




The Problem of Ecological Design



Introduction: The Design of Culture and the Culture of Design



Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design



Pathologies and Barriers



Slow Knowledge



Speed



Verbicide



Technological Fundamentalism



Ideasclerosis



Ideasclerosis, Continued



The Politics of Design



None So Blind: The Problem of Ecological Denial




Twine in the Baler



Conservation and Conservatism



A Politics Worthy of the Name



The Limits of Nature and the Educational Nature of Limits



Design as Pedagogy



Architecture and Education



The Architecture of Science



2020: A Proposal



Education, Careers, and Callings



A Higher Order of Heroism



Charity, Wildness, and Children



The Ecology of Giving and Consuming



The Great Wilderness Debate, Again



Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design


Bibliography


Index