THE DESIGNER’S ATLAS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Book ID/图书代码： 06745507B12148

English Summary/英文概要： Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today. Yet architects, product designers, and other key professionals in this new field have so far lacked a resource that addresses their sensibilities and concerns. "The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability" now explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design - designers’ choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world - but also the economic and cultural elements involved. The Atlas is neither a how-to manual, nor collection of recipes for sustainable design, but a compendium of fresh approaches to sustainability that designers can incorporate into daily thinking and practice. Illuminating many facets of this exciting field, the book offers ideas on how to harmonize human and natural systems, and then explores practical options for making the business of design more supportive of long-term sustainability. An examination of the ethical dimensions of sustainable development in our public and private lives is the theme present throughout. Like other kinds of atlases, "The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability" illustrates its subject, but it goes far beyond its visual appeal, stimulating design solutions for "development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being indefinitely."

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 永續設計，是一種以符合經濟、社會及生態學三者永續經營為方針的設計方法，其範籌小至日常生活用品，大至建築設計、都市設計、乃至於地球的物理環境。
而大部分的設計師都知道使用生態性素材經常須要很高的花費，但是為什麼沒有更經濟的材料可供使用？設計師也都知道消費者主義和汰換率是妨礙產品永續使用的重要因數，但我們要怎麼拋開單純的"再生"計畫呢？或許大部分的人會覺得現代社會的步伐太快阻礙了永續觀念的發展，但這藉口總有一天也應該由我們打破，不是嗎？
本書將分別從生態保護、經濟及文化三個層面，不僅能提供給設計師一個產品永續發展的觀念，更讓我們一般大眾如何瞭解在生活水準的提高下地球環境也能相對的延續下去。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：Praise:
“This book is the best introduction yet for integrating sustainability throughout the design process. The tone is open, direct, forgiving, non-preachy, and highly understandable. It should be required reading in every design program.” --—Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; director of Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art; and author of D.I.Y: Design It Yourself and Thinking with Type.
“This eloquently visualized Atlas gives deep insight on the economic and social facets of sustainable development. In critiquing the damaging environmental and social consequences of “free-market” economics, it outlines intelligent strategies for designing systems that restore ecological health and that equitably distribute financial wealth to all societal strata. Designers, businesses, and concerned citizens will learn much from this urgently needed and refreshingly wise roadmap.”--—Philip White, assistant professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Reviews:
New Design, Issue FiftyFive 2007 review "[the book] explores the basic principles, concepts and practices of sustainable design in an engaging style. It is neither a ’how to’ manual, nor collection of recipes for sustainable design, but a compendium of fresh approaches to sustainability that designers can incorporate into daily thinking and practice."
Materials and Design Exchange eNewsletter 8 Nov 07 review by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (author, Zoomorphic), "ranging across design disciplines from architecture to product to fashion in an appealingly browsable, visual, information-rich way. Neither po-faced nor hair-shirted, it’s divided into sections on ecology, economy and culture, holistically accepting that we live in a consumerist world where apparently trivial things like style actually matter to us in deep ways. These three contexts converge in the final section, called Frontiers, which tackles our obsession with the look, feel and possession of things. Here author Ann Thorpe suggests how we ’might begin to detach visuality and materialism from our notions of well-being’. It might sound like some weird spiritual quest, but Thorpe makes a good case that this is actually a job for designers."
Architectural Record, October 2007 review by Russell Fortmeyer, "lays out a broader map of sustainability for designers...giving the reader a highly visual and accessible tutorial in subjects as diverse as lifecycle analysis and materials production to the effects of economic globalization and corporate responsibility."
Sustainable Industires, September 2007 review by Aaron Berg "[the book] is presented as a resource guide for designers (of anything) but even as a non-designer I still found it interesting and relevant...Sustainable Industries has offered reviews of books focused on design, and this is the only one I would recommend to a professional interested in the discipline of sustainable design."
Library Journal, September 2007 review by David Soltész "Thorpe presents a holistic approach to embedding sustainability into every step of the design process that is applicable to everything from jeans to office buildings. Rather than promoting any specific technology or process, she uses the metaphor of an atlas to guide the designer through various "landscapes," treating ecology, the economy, and culture as interdependent spheres the designer should strive to understand, engage, and enhance. "
ForeWord review by Erica Wetter, "a superb primer on the conceptual principles behind the sustainability movement so that all designers—whether they’re working on buildings, cars, or ads—can help society move toward a sustainable future."
Treehugger.com- review by Lloyd Alter, Toronto, 10 July 07, excerpt: "This book is an essential, clear and comprehensible reference for any kind of designer."

About the Author/作者介绍： Ann Thorpe is a senior lecturer in design at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. She was the founding editor and publisher of ONE THE GROUND: MULTIMEDIA JOURNAL ON COMMUNITY, DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT and has lectured widely on designing sustainable products and landscapes.
Ann Thorpe擁有史丹佛大學設計學位及加州柏克萊大學能源及資源研究的碩士頭銜，除了在美英的大學教授設計課程外，也擔任美國建築師及設計師協會（US Green Building Council’s Cascadia Chapter）綠色建築及產品的顧問工作。

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