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They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.
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This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. Fuad-Luke has been engaged in applying and facilitating design thinking, sustainability thinking, and related practice in academia and industry circles (2000s to present day).
It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse.
Fuad-Luke is good at applying emerging design practices (design activism, co-design, participatory design, open design, eco-design) to achieve positive societal impact. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes.
Prof. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism.
Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism.
Prof. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped.
To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. During his academic career he has helped develop many new Bachelors and Masters courses, the most recent being the MA Entrepreneurship for Creative Practice at Plymouth College of Art, UK. He contributes to several inter-disciplinary design Masters programmes at Aalto University including Creative Sustainability, IDBM and Aalto’s 365wellbeing project for the World Design Capital 2012, while supporting grassroots design initiatives in the Helsinki region."
www.fuad-luke.com / www.aalto.fi/en
Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise.
He has a long history of working in different positions within sustainable design, co-design and design activism.
Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Working as sustainable design consultant, facilitator, educator, writer and activist, Prof.
His books include Design Activism (Earthscan, 2009) and The Eco-design Handbook (Thames & Hudson, 2002, 2005, 2009).
Alastair Fuad-Luke
"Alastair Fuad-Luke is Professor of Emerging Design Practices at Aalto University in Helsinki exploring new ways of designing with the city municipality of Lahti, Finland.
Alastair Fuad-Luke
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Aalto University, Finland
Alastair Fuad-Luke is the Professor of Emerging Design Practices at Aalto University in Finland.