{"title":"Books by Stuart Walker","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780262048095","title":"Design for Resilience","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesign for Resilience \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely, visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses humanity’s most critical issue: climate change. Our current wealth-oriented economic systems have resulted in gross disparities, war, refugee crises, and mass migrations that augur a bleak collective future. In this book\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003erespected scholar Stuart Walker combines formidable research with practical examples to offer a hopeful, original, and transformative view of what resilient design looks like and how it can apply to all aspects of life, from personal objects to food to culture to business to recreation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking at the intersection of theory, philosophy, history, environmentalism, and justice, Walker offers a fresh approach that decolonizes design thinking to fundamentally change the nature of design practice and how it shapes our lives, communities, and industries. Asking nothing short of the fundamental question “How should we live?,” \u003ci\u003eDesign for Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the high-priority issues that concern governments, policymakers, designers, and people around the world who recognize that now, perhaps more than at any other time in human history, we need paradigmatic changes to create a future that lasts.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231033930101,"sku":"9780262048095","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780262048095_80179540-c9b4-4056-869c-ede25233ec67.jpg?v=1786012347"},{"product_id":"9781844073535","title":"Sustainable by Design","description":"To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of designing. Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aesthetic experience.This book will introduce vital concepts to students and will inspire designers by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308303462773,"sku":"9781844073535","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781844073535_b1ca68e3-2cf7-43eb-9b85-b4397a6915bc.jpg?v=1786028417"},{"product_id":"9781041150565","title":"Design Shift","description":"Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating change and deepening challenges, this book offers a timely reminder that design can be a powerful force for renewal, when grounded in a sense of responsibility, humility, and shared humanity.   Drawing on insights from philosophy, global traditions, real-world examples, and hands-on making, the book explores how creativity can be guided by deeper values of compassion, inclusivity, and conservation. It invites us to reflect on why we create, how we create, and who we create for, and shows how such values can lead to more enduring, meaningful outcomes, and how design can help restore connections, foster equity, and bring us closer to the world we want. More than a design philosophy, it offers a hopeful vision of creativity not as spectacle or strategy, but as a thoughtful, enduring contribution to the common good.   Design Shift will be a key text for designers, students, lecturers, and researchers across design disciplines, craft studies, and sustainable futures, as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in social and environmental reform.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368573874549,"sku":"9781041150565","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041150565_ee82dae0-f21f-488b-bc3f-07ece8c88392.jpg?v=1786016844"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-stuart-walker.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}