Design's role in sustainable consumption

Design Issues

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 3-16

  Thorpe, Ann ^a  

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CONSUMPTION; DESIGN; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 77952908768     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DESI_a_00001     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. Throughout this article I write mostly of "consumer goods" in terms of products, but there is a case to be made that architecture is becoming a consumer good on some levels and that many of the points made here apply at least partially to architecture.
2. Tim Jackson, "Readings in Sustainable Consumption" in The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, ed. Tim Jackson (London: Earthscan, 2006).
3. Jackson's Reader is a good entry point into the literature on sustainable consumption (and one that I draw upon heavily), because Jackson has assembled a collection largely from pre-existing writings that include many respected consumption scholars from across a range of disciplines and time periods. Another good entry point, particularly for critique of the environmental movement, is the edited volume, Confronting Consumption, ed. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniate, and Ken Conca (Cambridge, A: The MIT Press, 2002).
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7. Victor J. Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (New York: Pantheon Books, 1972).
8. Chris Zelov and Phil Cousineau, Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier (Philadelphia: Knossus, 1997).
9. Jakki Dehn, "Re-Materialize Exhibition: Materials Made from Waste" (Kingston University, 1996).
10. Susan Subtle Dintenfass, "Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design" (Oakland: Oakland Museum of California, 1997-98).
11. Nigel Whiteley, Design for Society (London: Reaktion Books, 1993).
12. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan, Ecological Design. (Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1996)
13. H. Brezet and C. van Hemel, "Ecodesign: A Promising Approach to Sustainable Production and Consumption" (Paris: United Nations Environment Programme, 1997)
14. J. H. Gertsakis, H. Lewis, and C. Ryan, A Guide to EcoRedesign (Melbourne: Centre for Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1997).
15. Tim Jackson, "Readings in Sustainable Consumption.".
16. Kate Fletcher, "Use Matters" Chapter 3 in Sustainable Fashion & Textiles: Design Journeys (London: Earthscan, 2008).
17. See for example Karrie Jacobs, "Revenge of the Small," Metropolis, December 2006,
18. Ingrid Spencer "The Acceleration of Single Speed Design," Architectural Record, September 2006.
19. William J. Mitchell, "Going the Extra Mile to Make Mass Transit More Personal" Architectural Record, August 2007.
20. See, for example, Thomas de Monchaux "A is for Adaptable" I.D., May 2007.
21. William Weathersby, "Derek Porter Studio elevates the image of FLEX self storage center", Architectural Record, November 2006.
22. Alec Applebaum "Parking Garages Driven to Good Design" Architectural Record, August 2007.
23. Jackson, "Readings in Sustainable Consumption" and Anja Schaefer and Andrew Crane, "Addressing Sustainability and Consumption", Journal of Macromarketing 25:1 (2005), 76-92.
24. Karl Dake and Michael Thompson, "Making Ends Meet-in the Household and on the Planet", The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption (London: Earthscan, 2006).
25. Ken Conca, "Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy", Confronting Consumption, ed. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002).
26. Jackson, "Readings in Sustainable Consumption."
27. Conca, "Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy."
28. Michael Maniates, "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?" in Confronting Consumption, ed. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002).
29. Jeff Gates, Democracy at Risk (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2000).
30. For example see Kersty Hobson, "Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption: Does the 'Rationalization of Lifestyles,' Make Sense?", in The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption (London: Earthscan, 2006)
31. Maniates, "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?"
32. Derrick Jensen, "Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change" Orion July/August (2009).
33. Nick Clarke et al., "Globalising the Consumer: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register", Political Geography 26:3 (2007).
34. Jack Manno, "Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy", in Confronting Consumption, ed. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002).
35. Jessica Prendergrast, Beth Foley, Verena Menne, and Alex Karalis Isaac, "Creatures of Habit? The Art of Behavioural Change" (London: The Social Market Foundation, 2008).
36. Ibid., 8.
37. Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, "I Will If You Will: Towards Sustainable Consumption" (London: National Consumer Council and Sustainable Development Commission, 2006).
38. Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999).
39. Helen Lewis and John Gertsakis, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods (Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2001).
40. T. A. Bhamra, D. Lilley, and T. Tang, "Sustainable Use: Changing Consumer Behavior through Product Design" in Changing the Change Conference Proceedings (Turin, Italy: Allemandi Conference Press, 2008).
41. Some history and a range of examples are reviewed in Dan Lockton, Professor David Harrison and Professor Neville Stanton, "Making the User More Efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour" International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, preprint (2008). available from http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2137 (accessed 9/23/2008).
42. Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002).
43. Tim Jackson, "Consuming Paradise? Towards a Social and Cultural Psychology of Sustainable Consumption," in The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, ed. Tim Jackson (London: Earthscan, 2006).
44. Kasser, The High Price of Materialism.
45. Tim Jackson, "Prosperity Without Growth: The Transition to a Sustainable Economy" (London: Sustainable Development Commission, 2009), 39, 63-65.
46. Daniel Miller, "The Poverty of Morality", The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, ed. Tim Jackson (London: Earthscan, 2006).
47. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "The Costs and Benefits of Consuming", The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, ed. Tim Jackson (London: Earthscan, 2006).
48. Maniates, "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?"
49. Kate Fletcher, Emma Dewberry, and Phillip Goggin, "Sustainable Consumption by Design", Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences, ed. Maurie J. Cohen and Joseph Murphy (London: Pergamon, 2001).
50. Ann Thorpe. The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability, (Washington DC: Island Press, 2007).
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52. Ed Van Hinte and Liesbeth Bonekamp, Eternally Yours (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1997).
53. Stewart Walker, Sustainable by Design (London: Earthscan, 2006).
54. Jonathan Chapman, Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences & Empathy (London: Earthscan, 2005).
55. Ibid., 61.
56. For example, see Eva Heiskanen and Mikko Jalas, "Dematerialization through Services-A Review and Evaluation of the Debate" (Helsinki: Ministry of the Environment, 2000).
57. S. Bijma, Brezet, and S. Silvester, "The Design of Eco-Efficient Services: Methods, Tools and Review of the Case Study Based 'Designing Eco-Efficient Services' Project" (Delft: Design for Sustainability Program, Delft University of Technology, 2001).
58. Ezio Manzini, "Design, Ethics and Sustainability: Guidelines for a Transition Phase" (Milan: Politecnico di Milano, 2006).
59. Ezio Manzini, "Design for Sustainability: How to Design Sustainable Solutions" (Milan: Politecnico di Milano, 2006).
60. Albert Borgmann, "The Depth of Design", in Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies, eds. Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
61. For example, see Gui Bonsiepe, "Design and Democracy," Design Issues 22:2 (Spring 2006), 56-63.
62. Jeff Howard, "Toward Participatory Ecological Design of Technological Systems," Design Issues 20:3 (Summer 2004), 40-53.
63. Peter Blundell Jones, Doina Petrescu, and Jeremy Till, eds., Architecture and Participation (New York: Spon Press, 2005).
64. Kate Fletcher, "User Maker", Chapter 8 in Sustainable Fashion & Textiles: Design Journeys.
65. Hilary Cottam and Charles Leadbeater, "Health: Co-Creating Services", Red Papers (London: Design Council, 2004).
66. Kristina Niedderer, "Designing Mindful Interaction: The Category of Performative Object," Design Issues 23:1 (Winter 2007), 3-17.
67. Ibid., 7.
68. Mary Douglas, "Relative Poverty, Relative Communication", The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, ed. Tim Jackson (London: Earthscan, 2006).
69. See for example John Connolly and Andrea Prothero, "Sustainable Consumption: Consumption, Consumers and the Commodity Discourse", Consumption, Markets and Culture 6:4 (2003), 275-91
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72. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton, The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 188.
73. Jackson, "Consuming Paradise? Towards a Social and Cultural Psychology of Sustainable Consumption."
74. Ibid., 389.
75. Manno, "Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy."
76. Thorpe, The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability.
77. See, for example, Peter Dormer, Design Since 1945 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993).
78. John Heskett, Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
79. Thorpe, The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability.
80. Victor Margolin and Sylvia Margolin, "A 'Social Model' of Design: Issues of Practice and Research," Design Issues 18:4 (Autumn 2002), 24-30.
81. Sherry Blankenship, "Outside the Center: Defining Who We Are," Design Issues 21:1 (Winter 2005), 24-31.
82. Jon Broome, "Technology and Participation Towards Sustainability", Architecture as Initiative (London: Architecture Association, 2007).
83. Hobson, "Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption: Does the 'Rationalization of Lifestyles' Make Sense?"
84. Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg, and Omar Salem, Wide Open: Open Source Methods and Their Future Potential (London: Demos, 2005).
85. See, for example, Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005);
86. C. Leadbeater, We Think: Mass Innovation Not Mass Production (London: Profile Books, 2008);
87. Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (London: Earthscan, 2009).