Enabling Solutions for Sustainable Living: A Workshop

Edited by Ezio Manzini, Stuart Walker, and Barry Wylant

$22.95
February 2008
ISBN 978-1-55238-236-3
9” x 7” (paper)
42 B&W photographs and illustrations
Industrial Design
Urban Studies

About the Book

Sustainability, environmental impact, green design, urban sprawl – all buzzwords we have become familiar with in the ongoing dialogue about climate change and global warming. Enabling Solutions for Sustainable Living presents student work that explores these issues and exemplifies the application of Ezio Manzini’s theories of “enabling solutions.” Students from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design worked together to identify some of the challenges of suburbia with respect to sustainable design. Exploring such issues as the local quality of life, community cohesiveness, and environmental impacts of suburban areas, the workshop participants presented posters, tables, matrices, and other graphic materials that illustrate key concepts, the resources required, and the main players involved in their implementation. In addition to the student work showcased here, Enabling Solutions also includes essays by Manzini, Walker, and Wylant that contextualize the key issues and elaborate on the theoretical basis for the student workshop.

About the Author

Ezio Manzini is currently a professor of industrial design at the Milan Polytechnic and Chair Professor of Design under the distinguished Scholars Scheme at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Stuart Walker is co-director of the Imagination@Lan-caster design research lab at Lancaster University and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University. His work on product design for sustainability has been published and xhibited internationally.

Barry Wylant is an assistant professor in the industrial design program at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. He has extensive professional experience in new product design and development.

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