Architecture & Design versus Consumerism
Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth, informed by recent research into the viability of a "steady state" economy, sets an agenda for addressing the designer's paradox of sustainable consumption. The agenda includes ways that architecture and design can help transition us towards a new kind of economy that prioritizes real wellbeing rather than economic growth. Packed with examples and illustrations, the book argues that taking action, or activism, is an important but so far underexplored way for architects and designers to confront consumerism.
Author Ann Thorpe
ISBN 9781849713566
Category Architecture Books