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The nature of design: ecology, culture, and human intention/ David W. Orr

By: Orr, David WMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002Description: x, 237 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195173680Subject(s): Environmental responsibility | Global environmental change | Environmental ethics | Planning--Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 304.28

Contents:

I. Problem of ecological design. Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design -- II. Pathologies and barriers. Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis -- III. Politics of design. None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; A politics worthy of the name ; The limits of nature and the educational nature of limits -- IV. Design as pedagogy. Architecture and education ; The architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; A higher order of heroism -- V. Charity, wildness, and children. The ecology of giving and consuming ; The great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	304.28 ORR/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03178

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I. Problem of ecological design. Introduction : the design of culture and the culture of design ; Human ecology as a problem of ecological design --
II. Pathologies and barriers. Slow knowledge ; Speed ; Verbicide ; Technological fundamentalism ; Ideasclerosis --
III. Politics of design. None so blind : the problem of ecological denial (with David Ehrenfeld) ; Twine in the baler ; Conservation and conservatism ; A politics worthy of the name ; The limits of nature and the educational nature of limits --
IV. Design as pedagogy. Architecture and education ; The architecture of science ; 2020 : a proposal ; Education, careers, and callings ; A higher order of heroism --
V. Charity, wildness, and children. The ecology of giving and consuming ; The great wilderness debate, again ; Loving children : the political economy of design.

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