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Design for a better world : meaningful, sustainable, humanity centered

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2024Description: x, 364 pISBN:
  • 9780262548304
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I. ARTIFICIAL: ALMOST EVERYTHING SEE IS ARTIFICIAL -- 1. Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed -- 2. Our Artificial Way of Life is Unsustainable -- 3. Why History Matters -- 4. Precise –but Artificial– Measurements -- 5. If Technology Got Us into Today’s Situation, Maybe Technology Can Get Us Out -- 6. This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered -- II. MEANINGFUL: COMMUNICATE IN UNDERSTANDABLE WAYS -- 7. The Need for Meaning -- 8. Measurement in the Physical Sciences -- 9. Measuring What is Important to People -- 10. The Gross Domestic Product -- 11. What Measures Are Truly Important to People? -- 12. Human Behavior and Economics -- III. SUSTAINABLE: REVERSE AND REPAIR THE HARM DONE TO THE ECOSYSTEMS OF THE WORLD -- 13. We Live in the Age of Waste -- 14. How Did the World Get into Today’s Quandary? -- 15. Sustainability Has Multiple Components and Implications -- 16. Design, Products, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy -- 17. The Practical Difficulties of Implementing Circular Design -- 18. Sustainable, Robust, and Resilient Systems -- 19. People's Understanding of Systems -- 20. Working with Complex Sociotechnical Systems -- 21. It Is Not Too Late -- IV. HUMANITY CENTERED: ADDRESS ALL ASPECTS OF THE WORLD RELEVANT TO LIFE -- 22. Moving from Humans to Humanity -- 23. Democratizing Design and Development -- 24. People Designing for Themselves -- 25. Design X: An Approach to Large, Complex Systems -- 26. Where lncrementalism (Muddling Through) Fails -- 27. Incremental Modular Design -- 28. When Large, Multidisciplinary Projects Are Necessary -- 29. Dealing with Scale -- 30. Design: Necessary but Not Sufficient -- V. HUMAN BEHAVIOR: THE MAJOR CHALLENGE -- 31. Why Change Is Difficult -- 32. People Will Mobilize for a Common Goal -- 33. What Must Change? -- 34. The Dominance of Technology -- 35. The Future of Technology -- VI. ACTION: LEARN, REFLECT, DECIDE. ACT -- 36. What Can Be Done? -- 37. What Can We Do? -- 38. The Major Points of This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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I. ARTIFICIAL: ALMOST EVERYTHING SEE IS ARTIFICIAL -- 1. Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed -- 2. Our Artificial Way of Life is Unsustainable -- 3. Why History Matters -- 4. Precise –but Artificial– Measurements -- 5. If Technology Got Us into Today’s Situation, Maybe Technology Can Get Us Out -- 6. This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered -- II. MEANINGFUL: COMMUNICATE IN UNDERSTANDABLE WAYS -- 7. The Need for Meaning -- 8. Measurement in the Physical Sciences -- 9. Measuring What is Important to People -- 10. The Gross Domestic Product -- 11. What Measures Are Truly Important to People? -- 12. Human Behavior and Economics -- III. SUSTAINABLE: REVERSE AND REPAIR THE HARM DONE TO THE ECOSYSTEMS OF THE WORLD -- 13. We Live in the Age of Waste -- 14. How Did the World Get into Today’s Quandary? -- 15. Sustainability Has Multiple Components and Implications -- 16. Design, Products, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy -- 17. The Practical Difficulties of Implementing Circular Design -- 18. Sustainable, Robust, and Resilient Systems -- 19. People's Understanding of Systems -- 20. Working with Complex Sociotechnical Systems -- 21. It Is Not Too Late -- IV. HUMANITY CENTERED: ADDRESS ALL ASPECTS OF THE WORLD RELEVANT TO LIFE -- 22. Moving from Humans to Humanity -- 23. Democratizing Design and Development -- 24. People Designing for Themselves -- 25. Design X: An Approach to Large, Complex Systems -- 26. Where lncrementalism (Muddling Through) Fails -- 27. Incremental Modular Design -- 28. When Large, Multidisciplinary Projects Are Necessary -- 29. Dealing with Scale -- 30. Design: Necessary but Not Sufficient -- V. HUMAN BEHAVIOR: THE MAJOR CHALLENGE -- 31. Why Change Is Difficult -- 32. People Will Mobilize for a Common Goal -- 33. What Must Change? -- 34. The Dominance of Technology -- 35. The Future of Technology -- VI. ACTION: LEARN, REFLECT, DECIDE. ACT -- 36. What Can Be Done? -- 37. What Can We Do? -- 38. The Major Points of This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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