Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind [Hardcover]

A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.

Design for Resilience is a timely, visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses humanity’s most critical issue: climate change. Our current wealth-oriented economic systems have resulted in gross disparities, war, refugee crises, and mass migrations that augur a bleak collective future. In this book, respected scholar Stuart Walker combines formidable research with practical examples to offer a hopeful, original, and transformative view of what resilient design looks like and how it can apply to all aspects of life, from personal objects to food to culture to business to recreation.

Working at the intersection of theory, philosophy, history, environmentalism, and justice, Walker offers a fresh approach that decolonizes design thinking to fundamentally change the nature of design practice and how it shapes our lives, communities, and industries. Asking nothing short of the fundamental question “How should we live?,” Design for Resilience addresses the high-priority issues that concern governments, policymakers, designers, and people around the world who recognize that now, perhaps more than at any other time in human history, we need paradigmatic changes to create a future that lasts.Preface ix
1 Introduction 1

Part I: Resilience 7
2 The Dragrope of the Soul 9
3 Small Is Beautiful 23
4 The Nature of the Material 35
5 Attainment 39
6 Pasquinade 47
7 Appreciative Design 49
8 Design Criticism 69
9 Toward Resilience 89
10 Ten Ways to Create More Waste 105
11 Another Kind of Progress 107