{"product_id":"the-culture-of-nature-in-the-history-of-design-paperback","title":"The Culture of Nature in the History of Design - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKjetil Fallan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Culture of Nature in the History of Design\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design and ecological design might imply, this book presents case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century and from Singapore to Mexico. It gathers scholarship on a broad range of fields\/practices, from urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, to engineering design, industrial design, furniture design and graphic design. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom adobe architecture to the atomic bomb, from the bonsai tree to Biosphere 2, from pesticides to photovoltaics, from rust to recycling - the culture of nature permeates the history of design. As an activity and a profession always operating in the borderlands between human and non-human environments, design has always been part of the environmental problem, whilst also being an indispensable part of the solution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book ventures into domains as diverse as design theory, research, pedagogy, politics, activism, organizations, exhibitions, and fiction and trade literature to explore how design is constantly making and unmaking the environment and, conversely, how the environment is both making and unmaking design. This book will be of great interest to a range of scholarly fields, from design education and design history to environmental policy and environmental history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo and a founding member of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDesigning Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eDesign History: Understanding Theory and Method\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), editor of \u003ci\u003eScandinavian Design: Alternative Histories\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of the book series \u003ci\u003eCultural Histories of Design\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the volumes \u003ci\u003eDesigning Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eMade in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52931054862447,"sku":"9781138601925","price":113.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/RkYyemVuM2Y5angrMFFuRjJqQkExdz09.webp?v=1775834719","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/the-culture-of-nature-in-the-history-of-design-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}