Design for a better world : meaningful, sustainable, humanity centered
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lengua: | inglés |
| Datos de publicación: |
Cambridge :
MIT Press,
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | Consultar en el Cátalogo |
| Notas: | Incluye índice y bibliografía |
| Descripción Física: | x, 364 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780262548304 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. ARTIFICIAL: ALMOST EVERYTHING SEE IS ARTIFICIAL
- 1. Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed
- 2. Our Artificial Way of Life is Unsustainable
- 3. Why History Matters
- 4. Precise –but Artificial– Measurements
- 5. If Technology Got Us into Today’s Situation, Maybe Technology Can Get Us Out
- 6. This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered
- II. MEANINGFUL: COMMUNICATE IN UNDERSTANDABLE WAYS
- 7. The Need for Meaning
- 8. Measurement in the Physical Sciences
- 9. Measuring What is Important to People
- 10. The Gross Domestic Product
- 11. What Measures Are Truly Important to People?
- 12. Human Behavior and Economics
- III. SUSTAINABLE: REVERSE AND REPAIR THE HARM DONE TO THE ECOSYSTEMS OF THE WORLD
- 13. We Live in the Age of Waste
- 14. How Did the World Get into Today’s Quandary?
- 15. Sustainability Has Multiple Components and Implications
- 16. Design, Products, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy
- 17. The Practical Difficulties of Implementing Circular Design
- 18. Sustainable, Robust, and Resilient Systems
- 19. People's Understanding of Systems
- 20. Working with Complex Sociotechnical Systems
- 21. It Is Not Too Late
- IV. HUMANITY CENTERED: ADDRESS ALL ASPECTS OF THE WORLD RELEVANT TO LIFE
- 22. Moving from Humans to Humanity
- 23. Democratizing Design and Development
- 24. People Designing for Themselves
- 25. Design X: An Approach to Large, Complex Systems
- 26. Where lncrementalism (Muddling Through) Fails
- 27. Incremental Modular Design
- 28. When Large, Multidisciplinary Projects Are Necessary
- 29. Dealing with Scale
- 30. Design: Necessary but Not Sufficient
- V. HUMAN BEHAVIOR: THE MAJOR CHALLENGE
- 31. Why Change Is Difficult
- 32. People Will Mobilize for a Common Goal
- 33. What Must Change?
- 34. The Dominance of Technology
- 35. The Future of Technology
- VI. ACTION: LEARN, REFLECT, DECIDE. ACT
- 36. What Can Be Done?
- 37. What Can We Do?
- 38. The Major Points of This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index