Can Design Change Society

by Paul A. Rodgers (Editor), Craig Bremner (Editor)
By examining the contemporary situation of the Design School from a global perspective, this book explores how the structure of design learning and teaching, research and practice, is being transformed by a number of internal, external, and contextual factors and the implications of these factors for future iterations of the Design School

Design Thinking for Smaller Enterprise Development captures the zeitgeist and concerns of the new Millennium and offers a fresh view on how business can be successful by benefiting the wider society it should serve. It also highlights the systemic negative impact of a consumptionand profit-focussed economy and introduces an original model – SOCIETALByDesign™ – as a constructive alternative to relentless resource depletion, through an agile, adaptive, and respectful enterprise, which protects nature and civilisation and embraces a balanced and holistic purpose to serve people, planet and a positive legacy, as the heart of its very reason of being.

by Kristina Niedderer (Editor), Stephen Clune (Editor), Geke Ludden (Editor)

The Guide To A Minimalist Lifestyle: How Minimalism Can Also Positively Change Your Life!

Architecture has played a very important role in colonization of the society and the earth, and today we have the urgent task to crack the theory and practice of this same Architecture. We can achieve this only by working collectively towards reframing concepts that has been at the centre of a dominant universalist western knowledge creation.

How to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.