A&C see British Arts and Crafts
absolute poverty 55
academic disciplines 33–34, 85
Adbusters 18, 43, 87, 103, 157
Aeron chair 107
affordable housing 113
Alabama Chanin 103
algae production 93
alternative design approaches 43–49, 71, 210
altruistic approaches 18, 26, 48, 144–146
Amazon Mechanical Turk 172
anthropocentric perspectives 5
anti-activism 157
anticipatory democracy 196–200
architecture 17–18, 47, 125, 127, 170
ARPANET 144
Art Deco 207
artefacts
characterization 83
cultural acceptability 107
old and new 189
under-consumers 125
avant-garde 26
awareness raising 86–95, 129–132, 231–233
back stories 67
Bakker, Conny 48
banking systems 193
Baygen Clockwork radios 129
Béhar, Yves 132
behavioural aspects 59, 78, 86–95
Berners-Lee, Tim 144
biocentric perspectives 5, 17, 43, 67, 109
Blackspot footwear 103
Boase housing development 112–113
bonding social capital 7
Bonsiepe, Guy 142
bridging social capital 7
British Arts and Crafts (A&C) 37, 49, 203
British Pop Art 41
Broadbent, John 147
brokered manufacturing 103–104
Brown, Tim 189
Brundtland, Gro Harlem 23
Buckminster Fuller, Richard 41–42
capitalism 187
Celle chair 107
Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales 46
ceramic filters 127, 130, 132–133
certification 103
change
cultural 48
global commons 55
see also transformation
Changing the Change, Turin 77, 84, 189–190, 229
Chanin, Natalie 103
characterizing design activism 82–83
child mortality 216
China 193
cities 23, 88–89, 109–111, 175
climate change 55–60, 68–69, 191
Clock of the Long Now 123
clocks 88, 92, 101–102, 116–119, 123
co-design 95, 141, 143–160, 167, 179, 193, 195–196
Codha Chair 107
collaboration 145, 156, 169–173
collaborative customization 174
communication
ICT 144
networks 170
technological change 72
community-based approaches 121–122, 175
Constructivism 205
consumption
awareness raising 87
regulatory services 36
resources 61
unsustainable 67
water 125
contemporary expressions 77– 138
context-informed practices 34
contextualizing design activism 81–85
co-operation 145
Cooper, Rachel 50
copyleft licences 146
corporate social responsibility 72
counter-narratives 27
cradle-to-cradle thinking 195, 230
Crystal Palace, London 37
Culiblog 122
cultural level
acceptability 107
avant-garde 26
change 48
CuteCircuit 119
cyclic, solar and safe design 195
Daly, Herman 188
Datchefski, Edwin 195
Day Labor Station 127
Debord, Guy 43
default activism 108
de-future 188
demonstration artefacts 83, 85, 107
design for the environment (DfE) 47–49, 212
see also eco-design
Design for the Other 90%47, 77, 126
Design for the Real World 4–5, 44
Designs of the time 2007 (Dott07) 121–122, 148
design for sustainability (DfS) 84–85
Design to Order 173
De Stijl 205
Deutscher Werkbund, Germany 38, 204
developed countries 64
DfE see design for the environment
DfS see design for sustainability
disciplinary aspects 2, 4, 20, 33–34, 85
distributed collaboration 169–173
distributed manufacturing 95
Dott07 project see Designs of the time 2007
downloadable designs 103–104, 110, 174–175, 194
Dresner, Simon 23
Dymaxion Corporation 41
dynamic artefacts 83
see also design for the environment
eco-efficiency
futures 194
production 70
resources 61
eco-lifestyles 157
ecological capacity 63–67, 191–192, 195
ecological design 211
ecological footprints (EF) 64–69, 125, 190
economic level
climate change 59
globalization 187
see also learning
EF see ecological footprints
effectiveness assessment 83, 85
efficiency see eco-efficiency
elderly people 155
elephants 64
elitism 26
Elkington, John 47
embodied cultural capital 8
Emerging Users Demands For Sustainable Solutions (EMUDE) 79
EMUDE see Emerging Users Demands For Sustainable Solutions
enterprise models 193
entredonneurs 151
entrepreneurial artefacts 83
entry level visualization tools 173
environmental level
contesting consumption 113–121
legislation 72
sustainability 217
equality 67
equity 23
essential minerals 62
Existenzminimum 38
extinction 64
FabLabs 174
Fair Trade 103
Fallman’s triangle 81–82, 84–85
feedback 182
financial (economic) capital 6–7, 9–11
First Things First manifesto 43
Fischer, Gerhard 151
Flamp 109
flash mobbing 173
flow 6
food
domestic appliances 115
footprints
Freeplay Energy plc 129
free software 144
Fuad-Luke, Alastair 141
functionings 154
furniture 39–40, 98–101, 105–107, 175
Future Farmers 93
Futurism 205
Gablik, Suzi 196
Garland, Ken 43
gas liquids 62
Germany 38
Global Tools 42
Goff, Bruce 188
Gore, Al 59
graphic design 17–18, 43, 133–134
Great Exhibition, 1851 37
green consumers 47
Green Drinks 177
green lifestyles 157
Green Maps 175
Grown-Furniture 106
Hamilton, Richard 41
HDI see human development index
HDPE see high density polyethylene
Heads Together 121
Herman Miller 107
hertzian space 120
high density polyethylene (HDPE) 107
High-Tech Design 212
holistic approaches 24, 40, 45, 47, 229–230, 232–233
Holmgren, David 47
Home Zones project 121
van Houweling, Molly 146
The Hug Shirt 119
human
capital 6–7, 9–10, 13, 17, 193
centred design 189
product relationships 113, 115
human development index (HDI) 56
hunger 215
Hurricane Katrina 58
ICT see information, communication and technology
Illich, Ivan 148
inclusion 85
income 68
industrial aspects 36–37, 101, 141, 188, 221
informal events 177
information communication 87–88
information, communication and technology (ICT) 144
see also computers; internet
informed participation 151
infrastructural capital 9
Innivo Design 106
Innocentive 173
institutional aspects 7–9, 24, 72
intellectual property (IP) 143, 145–146, 172
intentional design activism 24–26
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 57–58
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) 46–47
International Buy Nothing Day 93
International Style 39–40, 206–207
internet
downloadable designs 103–104, 194
mass collaboration 156
metadesign 151
open source design 144
participation 167
IP see intellectual property
IPCC see Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ITDG see Intermediate Technology Development Group
jazz standards 80
King Hubbert, Marion 61
Kith-Kin 104
Kluster 173
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 126
Kyoto Protocol 57
labelling 103
land availability 62
laptops 132
large-scale events 179
laser sintering 174
LCA see life cycle analysis
LCT see life cycle thinking
Leadbeater, Charles 156
see also education
Leopold, Aldo 41
Liddle, Richard 107
life cycle analysis (LCA) 44, 230
life cycle thinking (LCT) 44, 230
Linden Research 172
Living Planet Report, WWF 64
Living with Things 117
local level 55–75, 95, 191–194
Long Now Foundation 123
Lunchbox Laboratory 93
making, ways of 95–107, 174–175, 194
man-made (material) goods capital 6, 8–9, 16–17
manufactured capital 6, 8–10, 14, 17
manufacturing 95, 103–104, 174–175, 194
see also production
Maori people 200
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US 88–89, 109–111, 174
mass customization 174
materials intensity per unit service (MIPS) 67
maternal health 216
MAYA see most advanced yet acceptable
MDP see measure of domestic progress
MEA see Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Mead, Margaret 77
measure of domestic progress (MDP) 71
meta-challenges 20
Methleys Olympics 121
Meyer, Hannes 39
Milan Polytechnic, Italy 78–79, 94, 154
Millennium Development Goals 68, 71–72, 215–219
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) 61, 63, 194–195
minerals 62
MIPS see materials intensity per unit service
miscellaneous activism 123, 133–134
MIT see Massachusetts Institute of Technology
moderate-scale events 179
modular evolved products 101–102
Mollison, Bill 47
Morelli, Nicola 153
Morgan-Grenville, Gerard 46
Morris, William 37
most advanced yet acceptable (MAYA) 107
multidisciplinary networks 170
multi-stakeholder participation 180
Murray, Will 35
mutual learning 147
national level 59–60, 64, 68–69
natural capital
Five Capitals framework 6–7, 9
sustainability 23
Natural Step model 70
needs
typologies 56
under-consumers 125
NEF see New Economics Foundation
Negroponte, Nicholas 132
new builds 113
New Design 212
New Economics Foundation (NEF) 71
New Orleans, US 58
new product development (NPD) 155
New Zealand 200
Ng, Swee Hong 127
Nishiyama, Kohei 173
non-designer-led events 177–178
North countries 64
nourishment 46
NPD see new product development
OAN see Open Architecture Network
objectified cultural capital 8
objects of study 34
OLPC see One Laptop Per Child project
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project 132
One Small Project 127
see also internet
Open Architecture Network (OAN) 174
open source/design approaches 110–111, 144–145, 169, 173–175, 177, 194
Oranggienbaum project, Germany 105–106
OS hydrogen cars 175
over-consumers 56, 68–69, 77, 86–123
Papanek, Victor 4–5, 44–45, 125
Paper Critters 104
participatory approaches 94–95, 143–160, 167, 180, 196
personalized design 95–102, 104
pervasive but differentiated values 34
Petrini, Carlo 157
Plantware 106
political change 6
van der Poll, Marijn 101
Ponoko, New Zealand 104
population
ecosystems 195
inequality 68
under-consumers 125
water resources 63
positive development 24, 113, 189
positivism 157
post-industrial sites 113
positive slowness 194
Postmodernism 35, 41–46, 49, 211
post-peak oil economies 56
precautionary principle 57, 59
PricewaterhouseCoopers 70
primary education 215
prism of sustainability
contemporary design activism 79–82, 85
disciplinary studies 4
equality 67
see also sustainability
process interpretation 34
production
customization 174
regulatory services 36
unsustainable 67
see also manufacturing
product service systems (PSS) 67, 95
product–user relationships 113, 115, 150
professional design activism 2–5, 77, 99
project communication 95
propositional artefacts 83, 85, 107
proprietary services 173
protest artefacts 48, 80, 83, 85
PSS see product service systems
Pugin, Augustus 37
QoL see quality of life
Radical Design movement 42, 209–210
radios 129
raising awareness 86–95, 129–132
Rauskolb, Roger 146
rebound effect 49
RED, Design Council, UK 95, 97
redirective theory and practice 87
REEE chair 107
Rees, William 64
reform 33
regional level 121–122, 191–193
remote sensory experiences 119–120
replicating machines 103–104, 174
replicating rapid prototypers see RepRap
result-orientated networks 154
retrofit 195
Riemerschmid, Richard 38
Rittel, Horst 142
Roden Crater 123
Rural Studio 128
Sand County Almanac 41
Sanders, Liz 143
satisfaction of human needs 152–153
SCALES see Special skills, Creating change agents, Awareness, Learning together, Ethical responsibilities and Synergy and co-creating
Schmidt-Bleek, Frederich 86
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich 47, 71
SCP see sustainable consumption and production
Second Life 172
self-design 99
SER Process Model 151
service artefacts 80, 83, 85, 125
Situationists International 43
SketchUp 173
slide shows 88
slow design 123, 157–160, 194, 227
SlowLab 194
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 71
small-scale events 177, 179, 182
smart factories 105
socialism 23
social aspects
capital 6–7, 9–10, 15, 17, 191, 193
change 48
creativity 151
enterprises 194
housing 38
networks 170
quality 153
values 196
societal responsibilities 189
Solomon, Debra 122
Spaceship Earth 42
special interest groups 5
Special skills, Creating change agents,
Awareness, Learning together, Ethical responsibilities and Synergy and co-creating (SCALES) 190, 229–233
spiritual capital 10
Sprout Design 107
Stav, Yael 106
Stern, Sir Nicholas 59
strategic design 221
suffixes 2
supermarkets 187
sustainability
characteristics 82
co-operation 145
environmental 217
industrial mindset 221
wicked problems 142
see also prism of sustainability
sustainable business value 70
sustainable communities 121
sustainable consumption and production (SCP) 8, 67
sustainable development 23, 25, 56
Sustainable Everyday project 78–79, 94, 96, 154
sweat shops 103
synergy 152, 193, 221–222, 231–233
System Reload 148
Tarrow, Sidney 5
TBL see triple bottom line
technology 45–47, 72, 141, 156
Three White Canvas Clocks 101–103
TOES see Towards Other Economic Systems
Towards Other Economic Systems (TOES),1986 71
transcendence 84
transformation 6, 20, 27, 95, 150–151
see also change
triple bottom line (TBL) 24–25
Turrell, James 123
UCD see user-centred design
under-consumers 55, 77, 123–134
United Kingdom 64, 66, 79, 93, 96–97, 121, 125
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992 24, 56–57
United Nations Millennium Development Goals 71–72
United States of America 127
unsustainable world issues 55–75
user-centred design (UCD) 150, 155
user-innovation design 156
value meme (vMEME) 36
van Hinte, Ed 48
Vehicle Stacks 109
virtual worlds 172
vMEME see value meme
Wackernagel, Mathis 64
Waentig, Heinrich 38
Wales, Jimmy 156
Wang, Li-Chen 146
waste heat/cooling 127
water
WCED see World Commission on Environment and Development
wicked problems 142
Wolfe, Shawn 196
women’s empowerment 216
World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) 56
Wright, Frank Lloyd 40
youth care centres 126
zero-emission hydrogen engine cars 110–111
Zohar, Danah 10