Design for Life

<p>Stuart Walker’s design work has been described as life-changing inspiring disturbing and ferocious. </p><p>Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice <i>Design for Life</i> penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today’s moral and environmental crises. </p><p>The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life – one that is both destructive and self-reinforcing. </p><p>Based on over twenty-five years of scholarship and creative practice he demonstrates the vital importance of solitude contemplation inner growth and the present moment in developing a different course – one that looks squarely at our current precarious situation while offering a positive hopeful way forward – a way that is compassionate context-based human scale ethically motivated and critically creative.</p><p>Design for Life is an intensely original contribution that will be essential reading for design practitioners and students. Written in a clear accessible style it will also appeal to a broader readership especially anyone who is concerned with contemporary society’s rising inequalities and environmental failings and is looking for a more constructive balanced and thoughtful direction. </p>