Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind

A 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. Design for Resilience is 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, respected 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. Working 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?,” Design for Resilience 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Resilience 7 2 The Dragrope of the Soul 9 3 Small Is Beautiful 23 4 The Nature of the Material 35 5 Attainment 39 6 Pasquinade 47 7 Appreciative Design 49 8 Design Criticism 69 9 Toward Resilience 89 10 Ten Ways to Create More Waste 105 11 Another Kind of Progress 107 Part II: Precedents 113 12 Resilient Artifacts and Activities 115 13 Resilient Home 127 14 Resilient Food 153 15 Resilient Culture 179 16 Resilient Play 219 17 Resilient Spirit 255 Part III: Resilience by Design 281 18 Design for Good 283 19 Truism 291 20 (C2H4)n Fever 293 21 Design after a Pandemic 295 22 An Intentional Act 305 23 A Tale of Three Birds 307 24 Design for Resilience 311 Acknowledgments 341 Appendix 1: Merrill's Rules of Rota 343 Appendix 2: Schadler's Rules of Latrunculi 345 Appendix 3: Rules of Nine Men's Morris 347 Appendix 4: Rules of Jacks 349 Notes 351 Index 393

About the Author :
Stuart Walker is Chair of Design for Sustainability at Manchester School of Art, Emeritus Professor at Lancaster and Calgary, and Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. He has conducted research and exhibited his conceptual designs internationally. His most recent book is Design and Spirituality- A Philosophy of Material Cultures.