Skrevet af ANKER
This book examines the possibilities for scaling design solutions to
global warming. Global warming poses new challenges to the architecture,
landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate
response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies.
What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How
can designers make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense
of local cultures and environments? By placing human rational,
emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our
environmental concerns, this book proposes a new global design
initiative. The aim is to develop a language of design that can create
proximity between individual responsibility and the current global
environmental crisis. These featured projects showcase leading-edge
design innovations at multiple scales. Global Design directors Peder
Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim discuss various ways in
which design can reformat the unfortunate separation between humans and
the natural world.
