Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design

Product design is a human phenomenon that shapes, modifies, and alters the world around us, and the recent emergence of sustainability compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design provides an essential overview of the field, with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples, and rich theoretical analyses.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 562 pages
\n Publication date: 05 March 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Product design, as a cultivated form of invention, is a profoundly human phenomenon that empowers us to shape, modify, and transform the world around us, either for better or worse. The recent surge of the sustainability imperative in product design necessitates a recalibration of the criteria for good design in an unsustainable age. Written by designers for designers, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design offers the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing field of sustainable product design. Filled with insightful perspectives, critical propositions, practical examples, and robust theoretical analyses, this book serves as a vital reference for scholars and practitioners at the crossroads of product design and sustainability. The book delves deep into our engagements with the designed world to advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters across 6 thematic parts, the book features contributions from the most prominent international thinkers in this dynamic and evolving field.

\n Weight: 1020g\n
Dimension: 174 x 246 x 37 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367200312\n \n