Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design

Introduction

1. Sustainable Design is Not Sustainable

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer

 

Part 1:  Systems and Design

Part 1 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 

2. The Political Economy of Design in a Hotter Time

David W. Orr

3. Design for Sustainability: Reflections on a Dynamically Evolving Field

Fabrizio Ceschin and İdil Gaziulusoy

4. Systems Thinking for Design

Diana Wright and Marta Ceroni

5. Sustainable Design for Scale

Andrea Steves and Rebecca Silver

6. Ecological Theory in Design: Participant Designers in an Age of Entanglement

Joanna Boehnert

7. Systems and Service Design and the Circular Economy

 Rhoda Trimingham, Ksenija Kuzmina, Yaone Rapitsenyane, and Nikki Clark

8. Surrendering to the Ocean: Practices of Mindfulness and Presence in Designing

 Yoko Akama

 

Part 2:  Complexities of Sustainable Design

Part 2 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 

9. Gullible Consumers: The Contradictions of Sustainability

Danah Abdulla

10. Fashion, the City, and the Spectacle: Expanding the Role of the Designer

Dilys Williams

11. Biomimicry: Nature Inspiring Design

Denise K. DeLuca, PE

12. Plastics in Transition: Searching for More Sustainable Plastics

Geoff Isaac

13. Critical Jugaad: Sustainable Design Practices from the Global South

Deepa Butolia

14. Data Clouds and the Environment

Arman Shehabi

15.Life Cycle Thinking and Sustainable Design for Emerging Consumer Electronic Product Systems

Erinn G. Ryen, Callie W. Babbitt, and Alex Lobos

 

Part 3: Community-Engaged Design, Local and Global

Part 3 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 

16. Empathy, Values, and Situated Action: Sustaining People and Planet Through Human Centered Design

Bruce Hanington

17. Global Perspectives for Sustainable Design

Douglas Bourn

18. Design for Localization

Helena Norberg-Hodge

19. Intercultural Collaborations in Sustainable Design Education

Denielle J. Emans and Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt

20. Confronting the Six Paradoxes of Humanitarian Design
Brita Fladvad Nielsen and Ir. Ana Laura Rodrigues Santos

21. Co-Designing for Development

Maria Rogal and Raúl Sánchez

22. Empowering Community Members Through Design

Diamond James

23. Practicing Empathy to Connect People and the Environment

Theresa J. Edmonds 

Part 4:  Design for Sustainable Behaviors

Part 4 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 

24. An Introduction to Design for Sustainable Behaviour

Casper Boks

25. How Design Influences Habits

Tang Tang and Seahwa Won

26. The Temporal Fallacy: Design and Emotional Obsolescence

Jonathan Chapman and Giovanni Marmont

27. Discourse Design: The Art of Rhetoric and Science of Persuasion

Marilyn DeLaure

28. Using Data Visualization to Shift Behaviors

Adam Nieman

29. Nature Based Design for Health and Well-Being Promoting Cities

Cheryl Desha, Angela Reeve, and Omniya el Baghdadi

30. Securing Sustainability: Culture and Emotions as Barriers to Environmental Change
Allison Ford and Kari Marie Norgaard 

Part 5: Design Futures

Part 5 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer

31. The Structure of Structural Change: Making a Habit of Being Alienated as a Designer

Cameron Tonkinwise

32. Transition Design: Wicked Problem Resolution as a Strategy For Catalyzing Positive, Systems-Level Change

Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff

33.  Letting Go in Sustainability Transitions: Designing Spaces for the Unavoidable Companion of Change

Femke Coops, Kristina Bogner, and Caroline Hummels

34. Shapes of Satisfaction: Rethinking Design and Designing for an Ecological Economy

Matthew Wizinsky

35. Designing Speculations for Sustainable Futures

Samuel Yu

36. ReFuturing: New prompts for new ecological visions

Paolo Cardini and Irina V. Wang

37. A Systemic Approach and Typology for Identifying Natural Nonhuman Stakeholders When Designing for Sustainability

Emīlija Veselova and İdil Gaziulusoy

38. Investigative Mingas: An Approach to Designing Sustainable, Pluriversal Futures

Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and Minga Asoyarcocha represented by: Lorena Matabonchoy, Yazmin Yenny de la Cruz, Camilo Hidalgo, and Omaira Bonilla

39. Interspecies Design for Co-existence

Pablo Hermansen and Martin Tironi 

 

Part 6: Pedagogy in Design for Sustainability (DfS)

Part 6 Introduction

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer 

40. Teaching Design for Sustainability from Product Design to Design for Sustainability Transitions: A New Programme at Brunel University London

Fabrizio Ceschin

41. Building Competence in Design Strategies that Contribute to a Circular Economy: Strategies for Education

Rhoda Trimingham

42. Mindsets of Possibility

Dilys Williams

43. Design Ecologies Exercise: The Innovation Landscape Matrix

Emma Dewberry, Joanna Boehnert, and Matt Sinclair

44. BCI Sessions: Be, Contemplate, Imagine

Denise DeLuca

45. Contextualizing Your Design Practice: Two Exercises for Design Students

Maria Rogal

46. Pedagogy of Hope for Sustainable Design

Douglas Bourn

47. Sustainable Design Manifestos: Reflections, Reviews, and Calls to Actions

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer

Biography

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is a design educator, sustainability and systems researcher, strategy consultant, and critical maker who uses design as a tool for social change. Her work focuses on shifting the narrative from sustainable design to regenerative, intersectional, systems change for the masses. She encourages regenerative actions to restore, rejuvenate, and reenergize ourselves, our communities, and our planet. Egenhoefer is a full professor in design at the University of San Francisco. She works to bridge academic speak, the design industry, and climate science to create lasting change for the everyday.

"This updated edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design will invigorate and amplify the capacity for design to situate itself in non-traditional scenarios and respond in unexpected ways. The breadth of the chapters encourages the crossing of disciplinary and cultural boundaries and expands the concepts of interconnectedness and relationships. It is a valuable and timely addition to the ongoing debates and discussions, but also, and, as importantly, a call for ongoing resilience and further action."

Nan O’Sullivan, Tumuaki – Head of School, Te Kura Hoahoa – School of Design Innovation, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa – New Zealand

"This second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design continues to build upon Egenhoefer's inspiring first edition. What makes this and the first handbook unique is its more holistic view of sustainable design that integrates systems thinking, behavioral psychology, economics, and more. This is an important book not only for the design practitioner but also for the educator hoping to help educate the next generation of climate designers."

Eric Benson, Associate Professor and Chair of Design for Responsible Innovation at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, co-author of Design to Re-Nourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice, host of Climify podcast

"Sustainable design is critical for our future; it should be required curriculum in all design schools. This book collects and synthesizes the thoughts of many leading sustainable design academics and practitioners, to explain a wide variety of concepts and their applications to several industries at different scales, from products to systems to communities."

Jeremy Faludi, Assistant Professor, TU Delft Sustainable Design Engineering, and Principal, Faludi Design

"This second edition provides us all – researchers, students, educators and innovators – with a full and rich landscape of ideas to consider. Most exciting is the confident and coherent inclusion of a broader vista which now enables us to understand more about how individual human emotions, group behaviors and community needs are key to systemic change. Empathy, mindfulness, mourning, releasing, satisfying, respecting, recognising; design is finally maturing into practice options that can connect and intersect with the potential to become much greater than the sum of their parts."

Rebecca Earley, Professor of Circular Design Futures at University of the Arts London, co-founder of World Circular Textiles Day, co-editor of Design Materials and Making for Social Change: From Materials We Explore to Materials We Wear

"The second edition of this handbook is a timely addition to the sustainable design discourse. With new and updated chapters, this comprehensive resource provides a critical guide to design's roles in addressing today's sustainability challenges, particularly the climate crisis. It's highly recommended for design practitioners, educators, and students who aspire to shape a just and safe future."

Raz Godelnik, Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design, and author of Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis: A Strategic Design Approach

　

　

Praise for the first edition

"This is essential reading for those beginning to explore sustainable design. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer has taken a unique approach to illustrating both the breadth and depth of the field. The structure around five themes provides very different perspectives and enables the reader to understand how the approach of design and sustainability together can begin to make real change in the world."

Tracy Bhamra, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Sustainable Design, Loughborough University, UK

"We are only beginning to explore how design can create the conditions for net positive change throughout society. This handbook shows how design thinking is breaking out of its past boundaries to have a positive influence on all aspects of theory, practice and being."

Janis Birkeland, Professor, University of Melbourne, author of Design for Sustainability and Positive Development

"Sustainability does not have meaning independent from what needs to be sustained, and this need is an object of environmental, economic, political, and philosophical contestation. It follows that the concept, and its associated practices begs vigorous debate. This book makes a contribution to the substance of such a debate."

Tony Fry, The Studio at the Edge of the World and University of Tasmania

"The comprehensive and anticipatory nature of this book is profoundly informative and operationally useful in ways that previous books have not been. It is by being so comprehensive on the front end that we designers can mitigate the Law of Unintended Consequences that has so often plagued the practice of design. While this book is aimed at designers, it would also be useful for political leaders, policy makers and theoretical thinkers in any field. As a society, we are woefully silo-ed by profession, nationality and paradigm. This condition does not accrue to our collective benefit. Any approach that seeks to dismantle this myopic state of affairs will persevere. This book seeks to do just that."

Peter Dean, Co-Founder and Former Concentration Coordinator, Nature Culture Sustainability Studies Concentration, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

"The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design pushes design beyond artifacts, common definitions and methodologies. Instead, it advances the discourse to a more impactful, holistic and systemic level, incorporating a much-needed variety of voices, perspectives, and ideas that challenge the designer’s ever-changing role and responsibility in a complex, interconnected and uncertain world."

Mike Weikert, Director, Center for Social Design + Master of Arts in Social Design, Maryland Institute College of Art

"This compelling collection is an outstanding resource for people who see design as a tool that can be used to create a better civilization, whether they be practitioners, students, researchers, or enthusiasts. Egenhoefer reminds us of our responsibility to use our professional skills and opportunities to not just do good design, but to do good!"

David Berman, RGD, FGDC, Sustainability Chair, Icograda/ico-D, and author of Do Good Design