Designing our way to a better world /
"Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world--functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities--why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Invisible Systems -- 1. The Design of the Invisible -- 2. Design Thinking -- 3. The Logic of Creativity -- Part II. Education -- 4. Creative Education -- 5. Schools and Communities -- 6. Reconstructing Design Education -- Part III. Infrastructure -- 7. Fracture-Critical Failures -- 8. Over-Extended Infrastructure -- 9. Designed Disasters -- Part IV. Public Health -- 10. The Infrastructure of Health -- 11. Healthy Landscapes -- 12. Viral Cities -- Part V. Politics -- 13. Designer Politics -- 14. The Politics of No -- 15. Left, Right, and Wrong -- Part VI. Economics -- 16. An Opposable Economy -- 17. A Third Industrial Revolution -- 18. Metadesign -- Part VII. Beliefs -- 19. Community Resilience -- 20. Evolutionary Transformation -- 21. Spatializing Knowledge -- Postscript: A Past and Possible Future. | |
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