The Green Imperative: natural design for the real world
- Author
- V. Papanek
- Year
- 1995
The Green Imperative argues that designers have an ecological responsibility, and sets out concrete practices, using recyclable materials, cutting packaging, designing at smaller scales and putting nature at the centre of decisions, to act on it. Written by Victor Papanek, it combines practical advice with criticism of design practice.
The Green Imperative examines the role of design in addressing ecological crisis, arguing for practices such as using recyclable and reusable materials, cutting unnecessary packaging, designing at smaller scales, engaging the senses, putting nature at the centre of the design process, and rejecting aesthetics pursued for their own sake. Written by sustainable-design pioneer Victor Papanek, the book combines direct advice, concrete examples and sharp critique of design practice at the time it was written; later readers have noted that the problems it describes have only grown more urgent since.
Credits: Papanek, V. (1995). The Green Imperative: natural design for the real world. Nueva York, EEUU: Thames and Hudson.
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- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · by the same author: Victor Papanek
In the framework
- Social Responsibility
- Self-Commission · element
In the book
- Chapter 1, section 005 · Breaking Free: The Hard Work of Questioning Dogma
- Chapter 2, section 016 · Navigating the Present: The Heraclitean River
- Chapter 4, section 034 · The Taming of the World: Design's Historical Blind Spot
- Chapter 5, section 046 · Pioneers of Systemic Application in Design
- Chapter 9, section 097 · Social Responsibility - An Ethical Commitment to Well-being, Equity, Dignity, and Collective Liberation
- Chapter 10, section 100 · Human Component | Referential (Who?)
- Chapter 11, section 109 · Emergence (Why?)
- Chapter 15, section 145 · Building Blocks (With What?)
- Chapter 15, section 151 · Environment Dimension
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