Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment write by Robert Crocker. This book was released on 2013-07-24. Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change. Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy. Aimed especially at designers and architects, Motivating Change explores the diversity of current approaches to change, and the multiple ways in which behaviour can be understood as an enactment of values and beliefs, standards and habitual practices in daily life, and more broadly in the urban environment.
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Design for the Built Environment write by Rob Fleming. This book was released on 2019-01-18. Sustainable Design for the Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format. This book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design, and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social, cultural, ecological, and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of the book is themed around the origins, principles, and frameworks of sustainable design aimed at inspiring a deeper, broader, and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry, adaptation and resilience, health and well-being. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global, urban, district, building, and human scale, illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span the context of time, space, and varied perspectives. This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative, coevolutionary model for sustainable design. By allowing the reader an insightful look into the history, motivations, and values of sustainable design, they begin to see sustainable design, not only as a way to deliver green buildings, but as a comprehensive and transformative meta-framework that is so needed in every sector of society. Supported by extensive online resources including videos and PowerPoints for each chapter, this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.
Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment
Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment write by Peter S. Brandon. This book was released on 2017-04-17. Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty years.
Advancements in the Philosophy of Design
Advancements in the Philosophy of Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advancements in the Philosophy of Design write by Pieter E. Vermaas. This book was released on 2018-03-02. Advancements in the Philosophy of Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design. With contributions originating from philosophy and design research, and from product design to architecture, it gives a rich spectrum of state of the art research and brings together studies on philosophical topics in which design plays a key role and design research to which philosophy contributes. Coverage zooms in on specific and more well-known design disciplines but also includes less-studied disciplines, such as graphic design, interior architecture and exhibition design. In addition, contributors take up traditional philosophical issues, such as epistemology, politics, phenomenology and philosophy of science. Some essays cover philosophical issues that emerge in design, for instance what design can do in addressing societal problems, while other essays analyze main-stream philosophical issues in which design is part of the argument, as for instance abduction and aesthetics. Readers will discover new research with insightful analyses of design research, design thinking and the specificity of design. Overall, this comprehensive overview of an emerging topic in philosophy will be of great interest to researchers and students.
Design for Sustainability (Open Access)
Design for Sustainability (Open Access) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Sustainability (Open Access) write by Fabrizio Ceschin. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Design for Sustainability (Open Access) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation framework that is capable of coherently integrating multiple design for sustainability (DfS) approaches developed so far. It is now widely understood that design can and must play a crucial role in the societal transformations towards sustainability. Design can in fact act as a catalyst to trigger and support innovation, and can help to shape the world at different levels: from materials to products, product–service systems, social organisations and socio-technical systems. This book offers a unique perspective on how DfS has evolved in the past decades across these innovation levels, and provides insights on its promising and necessary future development directions. For design scholars, this book will trigger and feed the academic debate on the evolution of DfS and its next research frontiers. For design educators, the book can be used as a supporting tool to design courses and programmes on DfS. For bachelor’s and master’s level design, engineering and management students, the book can be a general resource to provide an understanding of the historical evolution of DfS. For design practitioners and businesses, the book offers a rich set of practical examples, design methods and tools to apply the various DfS approaches in practice, and an innovation framework which can be used as a tool to support change in organisations that aim to integrate DfS in their strategy and processes.
