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Design for resilience : making the future we leave behind / Stuart Walker.

Walker, Stuart, 1955- (author.).

Summary:

"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262048095
Physical Description: x, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-392) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Resilience: 2. The Dragrope of the Soul -- 3. Small Is Beautiful -- 4. The Nature of the Material -- 5. Attainment -- 6. Pasquinade 7. Appreciative Design 8. Design Criticism -- 9. Toward Resilience -- 10. Ten Ways to Create More Waste -- 11. Another Kind of Progress -- Part II: Precedents -- 12. Resilient Artifacts and Activities -- 13. Resilient Home -- 14. Resilient Food -- 15. Resilient Culture -- 16. Resilient Play -- 17. Resilient Spirit -- Part III: Resilience by Design -- 18. Design for Good -- 19. Truism -- 20. (C₂H₄)n Fever -- 21. Design after a Pandemic -- 22. An Intentional Act -- 23. A Tale of Three Birds -- 24. Design for Resilience -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Merrill's Rules of Rota -- Appendix 2: Schädler's Rules of Latrunculi -- Appendix 3: Rules of Nine Men's Morris -- Appendix 4: Rules of Jacks.