Stuart WalkerThe Spirit of Design
Objects, Environment and Meaning
Professor Stuart Walker is Head of Design and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster creative research lab at Lancaster University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. Formerly, he was Associate Dean at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada where he retains his affiliation. His research papers have been published and presented internationally and his conceptual designs have been exhibited at the Design Museum, London, across Canada and in Italy. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. His book, Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice is also published by Earthscan.
1. Introduction 2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects 3.
Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design Through
Practice-Based Research 4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of Product
Appearance 5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design 6. Sermons in Stones:
Argument and Artefact for Sustainability 7. Gentle Arrangements: Objects of
Disciplined Empathy 8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the
Post-Consumerism Object 9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the Shakuhachi
Flute 10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and
Enduring Meaning 11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and Sustainability
12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and Spiritual Values 13.
Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the Meaningful 14.
Epilogue
