Design Shift

creative values for people, planet, and the common good
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-15056-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating change and deepening challenges, this book offers a timely reminder that design can be a powerful force for renewal, when grounded in a sense of responsibility, humility, and shared humanity.

Drawing on insights from philosophy, global traditions, real-world examples, and hands-on making, the book explores how creativity can be guided by deeper values of compassion, inclusivity and conservation. It invites us to reflect on why we create, how we create, and who we create for, and shows how such values can lead to more enduring, meaningful outcomes, and how design can help restore connections, foster equity, and bring us closer to the world we want. More than a design philosophy, it offers a hopeful vision of creativity not as spectacle or strategy, but as a thoughtful, enduring contribution to the common good.

Design Shift will be a key text for designers, students, lecturers and researchers across design disciplines, craft studies, and sustainable futures, as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in social and environmental reform.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Introduction Part I Helter-Skelter 2 A Worldview in Flux: profits and costs 3 A Bigger Picture: connections and meanings 4 Shifting Technology: design's changing priorities 5 Design for Greed: luxury craft and its alternatives 6 Exit Plans: anti-human, trans-human and fully human Part II Reset 7 A World Worth Making: things of significance and value 8 Transformation for Good: a foundation for change 9 Journey thru' the Centre of the Earth: turning point 10 Distinctions Disappear: holistic ways of knowing 11 Legend: a tale of transglobal local Part III Making Meaning 12 Aesthetics of the Tangible: beauty and its implications 13 Aesthetics of the Intangible: beauty in the immaterial 14 The Creator and the Work: art, design and moral dilemmas 15 Meeting Cézanne: a privileged encounter Part IV Reflection 16 Possessions: sitting on dusty shelves 17 Design without Dimensions: more than meets the eye 18 Feeling 19 Silence: the space not filled Part V Transition 20 Design Shift: values, priorities and positive change 21 A Quiet Stillness: creative change through tacit ways of knowing 22 Changing the Narrative: product as process 23 Indeterminate Design: taking less, having more 24 Creativity of the Heart: striving towards the Good Appendix: Pathways to 'the Good' Endnotes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Walker is an Emeritus Professor of Lancaster University, UK and the University of Calgary, Canada. He is also Professor of Design for Sustainability at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. His propositional design work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Design Museum, London, and has been featured in numerous books and magazines and on the BBC. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers and many books including Sustainable by Design, Design Realities, and Design and Spirituality (Routledge) and Design for Resilience.