Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design

This handbook situates the design practice in relationship to systems, taking into consideration the power design can have in the influence of structures, systems, and interactions that underlie our decisions, values, ethics and identities.It presents a unique and powerful design perspective not found in other collections.

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is a designer, artist, writer, and professor, whose work integrates technology, craft, and design. Her work focuses on sustainability and systems thinking in the context of behavior change. As an educator, she is involved in several initiatives to promote sustainability in both the design field and across higher education curricula. Egenhoefer is an Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco.

Introduction Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 1. The Political Economy of Design in a Hotter Time David W. Orr Part 1: Systems and Design 2. Systems Thinking for Design Diana Wright, Marta Ceroni 3. Design Strategies for Impact John Bruce 4. Applied Sustainability Wendy Jedli-ka, Jeremy Faludi, Dr. Pete Markiewicz, Tim Frick, Mark McCahill 5. Sustainable Design for Scale Andrea Steves, Rebecca Silver 6. Systems and Service Design and the Circular Economy Rhoda Trimingham, Ksenija Kuzmina, Yaone Rapitsenyane, 7. Ecological Theory in Design: Participant Designers in an Age of Entanglement Joanna Boehnert Part 2: Global Impact 8. Global Perspectives for Sustainable Design Douglas Bourn 9. Politics and Sustainability Harold Wilhite 10. Design for Localization Helena Norberg-Hodge 11. Intercultural Collaborations in Sustainable Design Education Denielle Emans, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt 12. Life cycle thinking and sustainable design for emerging consumer electronic product systems Erinn G. Ryen, Callie W. Babbitt, Alex Lobos 13. Data Clouds and the Environment Arman Shehabi 14. Increasing Urban Sustainability using GIS Luiz Felipe Guanaes Rego, Maria Fernanda Campos Lemos, Luís Carlos Soares Madeira Domingues Part 3: Values, Ethics, and Identity 15. Empathy, Values, and Situated Action: Sustaining People and Planet Through Human Centered Design Bruce Hanington 16. Practicing Empathy to Connect People and the Environment Theresa J. Edmonds 17. Surrendering to the ocean: Practices of mindfulness and presence in designing Yoko Akama 18. Confronting the Five Paradoxes of Humanitarian Design Brita Fladvad Nielsen 19. Co-Designing for Development