Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking

<p>This companion investigates the ways in which designers architects and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism society culture and design.</p><p>Exploring the innovation of materials habitats landscapes and infrastructures it furthers novel ecotopian ideas and ways of living including human-made settings on water in outer space and in extreme environments and climatic conditions. Chapters of this extensive collection on ecotopian design are grouped under five different ecological perspectives: design manifestos and ecological theories anthropocentric transformative design concepts design connectivity climatic design and social design. Contributors provide plausible sustainable design ideas that promote resiliency health and well-being for all living things while taking our changing lifestyles into consideration. This volume encourages creative thinking in the face of ongoing environmental damage with a view to making design decisions in the interest of the planet and its inhabitants.</p><p>With contributions from over 79 expert practitioners educators scientists researchers and theoreticians as well as planners architects and engineers from the U.S. Canada Europe and Asia this book engages theory history technology engineering and science as well as the human aspects of ecotopian design thinking and its implications for the outlook of the planet.</p>