Contents

Figures and Tables

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface
1

Scoping the Territory: Design, Activism and Sustainability

Defining ‘design’ today
Defining ‘activism’ today
Activism and the Five Capitals Framework
The activism landscape
Activism in architecture, design and art
Motivation and intention
Issue-led design and the sustainability challenge
Defining the design activism space
Drawing lines between ‘avant-garde’ and ‘activism’
A preliminary definition of ‘design activism’
Notes
2

Past Lessons: A Short History of Design in Activist Mode, 1750–2000

Design as ‘giving form to culture’
1750–1960: Mass production and (sporadic) modernity
Existenzminimum and other socially orientated housing projects by the Deutscher Werkbund
Bauhaus myths and realities
1960–2000: From Pop and Postmodernism to Postmodern ecology and beyond
The Postmodern ecologists
The alternative designers
The eco-efficiency activists
What are the lessons learnt?
Notes
3

Global–Local Tensions: Key Issues for Design in an Unsustainable World

A precarious balance in a changing climate
Resource depletion
Oil and peak oil
Essential minerals
Land for food production
Water for humans and agriculture
Ecological capacity and biodiversity
Unsustainable consumption and production
Social inequity, poverty and migration
Economic inequity and new visions of enterprise
Other significant issues
Notes
4

Contemporary Expressions: Design Activism, 2000 Onwards

Thinking about design activism
‘Socially active design’: some emergent studies
An emergent typology of contemporary design activism?
Another approach to contextualizing design activism
The critical role of artefacts in design activism
Activism targeting the over-consumers
Raising awareness, changing perceptions, changing behaviour
Ways of making and producing
Eco-efficiency improvements
Contesting meaning and consumption
Social cohesion and community building
Miscellaneous activism
Activism targeting the under-consumers
Shelter, water, food
Raising awareness by education
Tackling health issues
Miscellaneous activism
Notes
5

Designing Together: The Power of ‘We Think’, ‘We Design’, ‘We Make’

Dealing with ‘wicked problems’
The rise of co-creation, co-innovation and co-design
The open source and open design movements
The intellectual commons
Design approaches that encourage participation
Co-design
Notes
6

Activist Frameworks and Tools: Nodes, Networks and Technology

People, people, people
Toolbox for online world
Existing design activism networks
Distributed collaboration
Ways of sharing visualizations
Ways of making
Toolbox for real world
Selecting the right kind of co-design event
Notes
7

Adaptive Capacity: Design as a Societal Strategy for Designing ‘Now’ and ‘Co-futuring’

Design for a better future
The happy sustainable planet?
Bio-local and bio-regional
Emerging enterprise models
New ways of making and building
Eco-efficient futures (slowing and powering down)
Regeneration and renewal
Maverick, solo designer or co-designer?
Anticipatory democracy and the ‘MootSpace’
Notes
Appendices
Appendix 1Key Design Movements and Groups, 1850–2000: Activist, but Where, and for Whom or What?
Appendix 2The Millennium Development Goals, published by the United Nations (2000): Goals, Targets and Indicators
Appendix 3Metadesign Tools Emerging from the Attainable Utopias Project
Appendix 4Slow Design Principles, Philosophy, Process and Outcomes
Appendix 5The DEEDS Core Principles
Appendix 6Nodes of Design Activism
Illustration credits
Index
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