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Designing Sustainable Energy for All
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts. Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low- income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity. Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and provide energy access to all. However, even if promising, the implementation of DRE systems is not always straightforward. The book analyses, discusses and classifies the promising Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS) business models to deliver Distributed Renewable Energy systems in an effective...
Making of a Level 5 Design Thinker
Powerful insights from 40 Level 5 Design Thinking practitioners, across 12 countries A Level 5 Design Thinking practitioner is one who has achieved self-mastery and spiritual enlightenment so as to see his/her interconnectedness with fellow humanity. Without compassion and empathy, a designer cannot genuinely contribute to the well-being of the world we live in. Prof Mugendi K. M'rithaa, President Emeritus/Convenor of the Senate, World Design Organization™ A Level 5 Design Thinker is someone who strives for societal change of the likes of Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, Padma Bhushan Prof CK Prahalad and Nandan Nilekani Deepa Prahalad Abhyankar, Design Thinking practitioner, Tuck business school alumna and daughter of CK Prahalad A Level 5 Design Thinker inspires people, is a collaborator, believer, cares about you, makes you feel safe, is able to listen despite all the noise and synthesize what the insight really is. Bill Pacheco, Design Thinking coach at Stanford d.school
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out to be a comprehensive innovation process in response to the major global challenges such as climate change, urbanization or migration. A reference work for students, lecturers, scientists, and anyone wanting to understand the profound changes in higher education.
Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives
Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries’ independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and assist in finding ways to address issues in other countries and continents. These often-unresolved issues attract much attention, but finding ways of working through them requires a deeper and broader approach. Contributors propose an African indigenous knowledge perspective in relation to new materialism as alternative approaches to engage with visual redress and decolonisation of spaces in an African context. Authors such as Frantz Fanon, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and George Dei will be referred to regarding indigenous knowledge, decolonialisation and Africanisation, and Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti regarding new materialism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, heritage studies, African studies and architecture.
Design/Repair
This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair manifests itself through the different lenses of governance, grassroots activism, transformative design and community-led initiatives. Most importantly, the chapters demonstrate how place-based approaches can reveal blueprints for social impact in circumstances of growing environmental and social precariousness.
Design for a Sustainable Culture
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series introduction -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Contextual perspectives -- 2 Design research: contents, characteristics and possible contributions for a sustainable society -- 3 Distributed systems and cosmopolitan localism: an emerging design scenario for resilient societies -- 4 Social ecologies of flourishing: designing conditions that sustain culture -- 5 The idea of simplicity as a pathway to cultural sustainability -- PART II Environments -- 6 Housing culture, residential preferences and sustainability -- 7 Designing a sense of place -- PART III Products and cultures -- 8 The importance of culture in design...
The Black Experience in Design
The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the work and experiences of Black designers have been systematically overlooked in the profession for decades. However, given the national focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the aftermath of the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, educators, practitioners, and students now have the opportunity—as well as the social and political momentum—to make long-term, systemic changes in design education, research, and ...
Handbook of Research on Creating Spaces for African Epistemologies in the Inclusive Education Discourse
Students with disabilities who are not able to perform to the best of their abilities often find themselves learning in inaccessible environments and subjected to increased stress levels due to the haphazard provisioning of education characterized by physical, communicative, and unsuitable teaching and learning approaches. Very often this is a result of various shortcomings including unfair assessment practices. Misconceptions and a lack of knowledge with regard to the implementation of inclusive education detract from the successful admission of students with disabilities and their retention and active participation. The Handbook of Research on Creating Spaces for African Epistemologies in ...
Production Urbanism
The Industrial Revolution caused a paradigm shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, giving birth to the industrial city. ‘City’ became synonymous with a concentration of factories causing unfiltered scenes between centres of production and urban dwellings. The corrupted image of the city ultimately led to the displacement and separation of production away from residential zones in the 20th century. However, new innovative manufacturing technologies are allowing a coexistence between factories and dwellings through hybrid typologies that blend production back into the urban fabric. This AD issue discusses the implications of the re-emergence of production as an architec...
