Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design: Design Process and Educational Practice

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of figures\nIntroduction\n1 Sustainability and making\n	1.1 Defining sustainability\n	1.2 The shifting baseline syndrome\n	1.3 Circular economy: a system for environmental sustainability\n	1.4 The role of the designer within a system for sustainability\n	1.5 Material knowledge in sustainable design\n2 Materials in design education\n	2.1 The dispute about materials within design education\n	2.2 From drawing to ‘executed design’\n	2.3 Handmade for mass production\n	2.4 From hands to head\n	2.5 The didactic challenge\n3 The material dialogue in craft\n	3.1 The separation of mind and body\n	3.2 Cognition in craft: the bond between body and mind\n	3.3 Analogue versus digital\n	3.4 Matter versus form\n	3.5 Reinstating materials and making\n4 Reintroducing materials into a contemporary design process\n	4.1 From craft to design\n		4.1.1 Analysis and synthesis\n		4.1.2 The representational and the non-representational\n	4.2 Framing\n		4.2.1 Material studies and exploration: the source\n		4.2.2 Material studies and exploration: tradition, history and culture\n		4.2.3 Material studies and exploration: the composition\n	4.3 Imagining\n		4.3.1 Creativity\n		4.3.2 Drawing\n	4.4 Material experimentation and prototyping\n		4.4.1 Material experimentation\n		4.4.2 Iterative prototyping\n		4.4.3 Epistemic artefacts\n	4.5 Conversations with designers\n		4.5.1 Interview with designer Jonas Edvard\n		4.5.2 Interview with the designers Maartje Dros and Eric Klarenbeek\n5 Implications for design education\n	5.1 Prerequisites\n		5.1.1 Making skills\n		5.1.2 Experimental practice\n		5.1.3 Between art, technology and natural sciences\n		5.1.4 The physical facilities\n	5.2 Learning to design with materials\n		5.2.1 Different types of knowledge\n		5.2.2 Building contributory expertise\n		5.2.3 Transferring the meaning of a material dialogue through experience\n	5.3 From analogue to digital and back\n		5.3.1 Material knowledge in digital design\n		5.3.2 Educational context\n		5.3.3 Material dialogues with digital tools\n		5.3.4 The ‘Ba’ of material dialogue\n6 Sustainable design: Knowing how\n	6.1 The dilemma of quantifying sustainable design\n	6.2 Co-creation and distributed knowledge\n	6.3 The responsibility of designers\n	6.4 The future of sustainable design\nIndex