Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design. This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances.
Author Stuart Walker, Stuart Walker, Martyn Evans, Martyn Evans, Tom Cassidy, Tom Cassidy, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Je
ISBN 9781474241809
Category Design Books