Overview

If what we need now is a better world-functioning schools, workinginfrastructure, thriving cities-why not design one? Thomas Fisher shows how theprinciples of design apply to services and systems that seem to evolve naturally,systems whose failures sometimes seem as arbitrary and inevitable as theweather. Designing Our Way to a Better World reveals the power of designto open up better futures than the unsustainable and inequitable one we nowface.

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Author:   Thomas Fisher
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780816698875

ISBN 10:   0816698872
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 May 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Part I. Invisible Systems 1. The Design of the Invisible 2. Design Thinking 3. The Logic of Creativity Part II. Education 4. Creative Education 5. Schools and Communities 6. Reconstructing Design Education Part III. Infrastructure 7. Fracture-Critical Failures 8. Over-Extended Infrastructure 9. Designed Disasters Part IV. The Public Realm 10. The Infrastructure of Health 11. Healthy Landscapes 12. Viral Cities Part V. Politics 13. Designer Politics 14. The Politics of No 15. Politics: Right and Wrong Part VI. Economics 16. An Opposable Economy 17. A Third Industrial Revolution 18. Meta-design Part VII. Beliefs 19. Community Resiliency 20. Evolutionary Transformation 21. Spatializing Knowledge Postscript: A Past and Possible Future Notes Index

Reviews

[Designing Our Way to a Better World] tosses out ideas like a firework tosses out sparks. --Planning Magazine Fisher lays our a compelling case for addressing the 'wicked problems' of our day with the power of design thinking. And he does so in a voice that seeks to appeal to a general audience--not just experts in various fields. Highly recommended Reading. --Architecture Minnesota

Though architecture theory's autonomous turn has been crumbling for some time, you can sense Tom Fisher's sledgehammer here hastening the process. Designing Our Way to a Better World takes on such expansive topics as education, environmental rescue, politics, and economics to raise our horizons for an architecture of true engagement. Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University Finally! A great design thinker who truly connects the objects we put on the land with the planet below them. Thomas Fisher's breakthrough perspective challenges us to rethink almost everything education, movement, consumption to dramatically reshape the world each action designs. R.T. Rybak, former mayor of Minneapolis, executive director of Generation Next, and author of Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis

Though architecture theory's autonomous turn has been crumbling for some time, you can sense Tom Fisher's sledgehammer here hastening the process. Designing Our Way to a Better World takes on such expansive topics as education, environmental rescue, politics, and economics to raise our horizons for an architecture of true engagement. Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University

Author Information

Thomas Fisher is the former dean of the College of Design and the new director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Designing to Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design. His books The Invisible Element of Place: The Architecture of David Salmela, In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture, and Salmela Architect are also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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