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Book SynopsisJanis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.Trade Review'One of the best books on sustainability I've read in a long time ... clear, compelling, and dead on.' - David Orr, Oberlin College, author of The Nature of Design and Ecological Literacy 'Birkeland's book takes the next step ... it argues that design for nature, or 'design for eco-services', is long overdue, and explains how we can do it.' - Hunter Lovins, President and Founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions 'A heralding work of how a positive and innovative design agenda for the built environment, underlined by an uncompromising valuation of ecology and nature's services, can mobilize our efforts in becoming native to the planet.' - Michael Braungart, Professor of Material Flow Management at University Luneburg, Germany and co-author of Cradle to Cradle 'What a great book! Thank you so much and congratulations on its great feat in effortlessly combining erudition with simplicity.'- Senator Bob Brown, Leader of the Australian Greens 'Invaluable not just to designers but to all those whose work impinges on the environment.' - Ken Yeang, Architect, Llewelyn Davies Yeang, UK 'An unusual, and heartening, combination of the radical and the realistic.' - Clive Hamilton, former Executive Director of The Australia Institute, author of Growth Fetish and co-author of Affluenza'Birkeland is one of the world's leading thinkers on sustainable built environments. In this book she distils her wealth of experience into a very accessible text on how we can achieve net positive development.' - The Natural Edge Project, authors of The Natural Advantage of Nations 'Birkeland convincingly argues that we can 'develop' in a way that replenishes and increases the planet's life-giving services. I urge that this book be read and championed by our infrastructure designers as well as all others.' - David A Hood, Chairman, Australian Green Infrastructure Council 'Birkeland brings a fertile and inventive mind to bear on the critical problem of how to cope with the planet's disappearing carrying capacity.' - David R. Godschalk, University of North Carolina in Urban Land'This is a wonderful book that should be on the desk of every architect and planner.' - Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, President, Australian Conservation Foundation 'I highly recommend Professor Birkeland's book...a required text for IGP's course on 'Sustainable Architecture' that is a partial prerequisite for the Member (MIGP) or Fellow (FIGP) designations.' - Grant W Austin, President of the Institute for Green Professionals 'This book made me think. It will be a book that I will come back to on many occasions as it questions the conventional approach to sustainable development and goes far beyond, offering advice towards positive development. I will keep it to hand in order to stimulate thinking and to provoke debate.' - International Journal of Sustainable Engineering 'The author is a known champion for sustainability in built environment with excellent critique and good solution and best practice examples, the book gives new ideas in 54 boxes. This book can be read again and again.' - Built Environment'As a handbook for architects and planners willing to embrace those ecological principles and wanting to reflect more deeply on what is involved in making the transition, this is a book that can be warmly recommended.' Frank Stilwell, International Journal of Water Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sustainability versus Negativity * Section A: Redefining the Problem and Goals * Design for Eco-services * The Case for Eco-retrofitting * Sustainable Urban Form * Section B: Critique of Methods,Tools and Processes in Building Design * Development Standards and Criteria * Building Rating Tools * Design Methods * Section C: Critique of Methods, Tools and Processes in Environmental Management * Urban Sustainability Assessment * Regional Sustainability Audits * Sustainability Reporting * Section D: Critique of Trends in Strategies, Incentives and Planning * Futures Thinking Tools * Eco-service Trading Schemes * Bioregional Planning * Section E: A framework for Eco-governance and Management * Constitution for Eco-governance * Reversing Resource Transfers * The SmartMode Process * Index

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Book SynopsisThe prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism" puts the sites of the critic's engagement with art first. The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity enter the writing of art criticism. The sites explored are the material, emotional, political and conceptual settings of the artwork's construction, exhibition and documentation, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined. Through five different spatial configurations - both psychic and architectural - "Site-Writing" explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne Al-Ani, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Christina Iglesias and Do-Ho Suh, aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism.Trade Review'A timely and highly significant contribution to academic and professional fields of contemporary art, Rendell's Site-Writing offers the first substantial exploration of the situatedness of engagement with art. Here Rendell combines exemplary academic argument with immersive critical analysis of contemporary works. It is this distinctive voice which sets Rendell apart from her contemporaries and makes Site-Writing an essential volume for anyone interested in the specificity of viewing and engaging with, producing and writing about art.' - Claire Doherty, Director, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol; 'Jane Rendell is a nomadic theorist and a theoretical nomad, whose formidable intellect has produced books on the interstitial relationship between space and feminism, place and psyche, city and citizen, architecture and art. Asking, where does biography end and theory begin?A" Rendell's architectonics of criticism performs a praxis that negotiates the personal and the universal. This discloses the critic in all of us, who, in facing the creative work, is confronted with the other (both distant and near), compelling us to reconstruct our own world and therefore the very space we occupy.' - Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, Massey University College of Creative ArtsTable of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgements Prologue: Pre-Positions Configuration 1 Triangular Structures with Variable Thirds Transitional Space Undoing Architecture One + One = Three: Tracey Emin’s You Forgot to Kiss my Soul Confessional Construction Configuration 2 Back and Forth Frontier Creatures Travelling the Distance/Encountering the Other To Miss the Desert You Tell Me An Embellishment: Purdah Configuration 3 A Rearrangement Word-Presentations and Thing-Presentations The Welsh Dresser Longing for the Lightness of Spring Les Mots et Les Choses Configuration 4: That Which Keeps Coming Back Déjà Vu ‘Some Things You See Will Remind You of Others’: Déjà Vu in the Work of Cristina Iglesias La Passante ‘She is walking about in a town which she does not know’ Configuration 5: Decentering/Recentering The Copernican Revolution Somewhere Else She is Told Decentering/Recentering Do-Ho Suh Everywhere Else Trafalgar Square: Détournements Epilogue: Alien Positions Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent histories. With World War and Holocaust memorials as precursors, the kinds of events now recognized include genocide in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda and the Balkans, state repression in Eastern Europe, apartheid in South Africa, terrorism in the United States, political "disappearances" in Chile and Argentina, massacres in China and Taiwan, and more. This book is the first of its kind to "map" these new institutions and cultural spaces, which, although varying widely in size, style and political situation, are nonetheless united in their desire to promote peace, tolerance and the avoidance of future violence. Moving across nations and contexts, Memorial Museums critically analyzes the tactics of these institutions and gauges their wider public significance.Trade ReviewA significant study of contemporary museological practices, offering a wealth of insights into how objects, images and exhibition spaces contribute to the politically charged field of commemoration and remembrance. Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Melbourne Williams's book offers a rigorous analysis of the key issues and should be read by anyone involved in a memorial project. Suzanne Bardgett, Oral History This book provides a critical survey of issues on memorial museums: what they contain; why they have proliferated worldwide in this particular sociopolitical epoch; the basis of their appeal for visitors; the effect that their creation might have on other kinds of museums and heritage sites; and if they will become a permanent feature of the urban landscape and of public historical consciousness. cabi.org (July 2008) Williams's work is best suited to for a specialized audience of graduate students, professors, and museum professionals. These readers will find an intellectually stimulating treatise that lays the groundwork for furture research in an area of museum studies that has not yet received much scholarly attention. Highly recommended. S. Ferentinos, CHOICE Magazine Williams should be applauded for his breadth of material ... His argument is an important one that I hope opens up further investigations into the sites he mentions. Museum Anthropology ReviewTable of Contents1. A Very Different Proposition: Introducing the Memorial Museum 2. The Surviving Object: Presence and Absence in Memorial Museums 3. Photographic Memory: Commemorating Calamitous Events through Images 4. Rocks and Hard Places: Location and Spatiality in Memorial Museums 5. A Diplomatic Assignment: The Political Fortunes of Memorial Museums 6. The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility 7. Looming Disaster: Memorial Museums and the Shaping of Historic Consciousness 8. Conclusion: Fighting the Forgetful Future

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Book SynopsisSustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognised by business as major challenges, and while new practices like 'green design' have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented. Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice which recognises design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author's ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the 21st Century. Design Futuring - a pathfinding text for the new era - extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice and will be invaluable also to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts, Business and Management.Trade ReviewDesign Futuring defines redirective practice as a critical new paradigm for design-a way of engaging design and sustainability as they are implicated in and essential to our very survival. Broad. Accessible. Timely. Eli Blevis, Indiana University at Bloomington A great introduction to the key concepts and contributions that Tony Fry has brought to the discourse of sustainability, alongside new concepts like redirective practice and practical suggestions for meaningful action. This is original thinking accessible to readers from all sectors. Frances Whitehead, School of the Art Institute of Chicago This is an important book. One that is highly useful for designers, design educators and design students of any design area. Aidan Rowe, University of Alberta Forceful, convincing, persuasive, and ultimately refreshing, leaving the reader with renewed investment in the role of designers for a sustain-able future. Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture It has an easy reading style and an impressive bibliography and back up notes ... It's a reference book that could be used for core teaching right across the design and technology spectrum, with teachers being able to draw on concepts that can be easily explained at KS3, but also incorporating meatier offerings for those teaching at KS4 and A level. just4TextilesTable of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE: RETHINKING THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF DESIGN 1. Understanding the Nature of 'Practice' 2. Understanding the Directional Nature of Design (as object and practice) 3. The Imperative of the Redirection of Design 4. Design as a Redirective Practice 5. Reviewing Two Key Redirective Practices 6. Futuring, Redirective Practice, Development and Culture PART TWO: STRATEGIC DESIGN THINKING 7. Unpacking Futuring in Relation to the Self, Community, Culture and Ethics 8. Methods of Change 1: Platforming, Return Briefs and New Teams 9. Methods of Change 2: Designing in time 10. Futuring and Learning the New from the Past 11. Designer as Redirective Practitioner: New Roles beyond Design PART 3: DESIGN, SUSTAINMENT AND FUTURES 12. Futuring Against Sustaining the Unsustainable 13. Sustainment and a New Epoch of Humanity 14. Picturing Economic and Cultural Futures 15. Sustainment by Design (as Redirective Practice): 'Dig Where You Stand' 16. Challenges of the Communication of Sustainment and Futuring Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDigital Design: A Critical Introduction provides a much-needed new perspective on designing with digital media. Linking ideas from media theory, generative design and creativity with examples from nature, art, architecture, industrial design, websites, animation and games, it addresses some fundamental questions about creative design with digital media. Featuring original material based on the authors' own research, the book argues that the recognition and understanding of the interplay of the two apparently opposing concepts of rules and contingency supports original thinking, creativity and innovation. Going beyond existing texts on the subject, Digital Design is an accessible primer whose innovative approach transcends the analysis of individual subfields - such as animation, games and website design - yet offers practical help within all of them.Trade ReviewEmphasising a maker's perspective on digital design - the nodes, networks, and the capacity for participation and evolution that digital media affords us - and maintaining a consistent conceptual position, this book makes the case for a generic approach to digital design. * Karen Cham, Kingston University, UK *As an artist myself I found the book very stimulating. The authors draw interesting connections between multiple topics. * Greg Johnson, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA *Table of ContentsRules and Digital Design Bending Rules Making Digital Artefacts Developing Digital Creativity Analysis: Product Design and Art Analysis: Architecture, Film and Games Serious Play Studio Journals Critical Ideas Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRoland Morant's book on the medieval monastic buildings of Lincolnshire fills a significant gap in books about the surviving monastic buildings in Lincolnshire and includes information relating to all parts of the county in a single volume. It is illustrated with numerous photographs, illustrations, maps and site-plans together with a glossary of architectural terms. Abbeys and Priories of Lincolnshire Past and Present will appeal to the enthusiastic general reader who enjoys visiting and reading about places of historical interest. It will also be of interest to students of history including those pursuing an interest in their own local history.Table of ContentsList Of Illustrations; Foreword; Chapter 1: Early Monasticism And St. Benedict; Chapter 2: The Founding Of New Monastic Orders; Chapter 3: The Coming Of Orders To England: The Contemplatives; Chapter 4: The Coming Of Orders To England: The Mendicants And Militaries; Chapter 5: The Monastic Houses Of Lincolnshire; Appendix 1 To Chapter 5: List Of Monastic Houses Founded In Lincolnshire; Appendix 2 To Chapter 5: List Of Alien Houses In Lincolnshire; Appendix 3 To Chapter 5: Types Of Monastic House In Lincolnshire; Chapter 6: Survivals; Appendix To Chapter 6: List Of Monastic Sites Where There Are Traces Only Of Houses; Directory: The Thirty Two Houses With Noteworthy Remains; Architectural Glossary; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements;

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