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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Though architecture theory's autonomous turn has been crumbling for some time, you can sense Tom Fisher's sledgehammer here hastening the process. Designing Our Way to a Better World takes on such expansive topics as education, environmental rescue, politics, and economics to raise our horizons for an architecture of true engagement."—Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University
"Finally! A great design thinker who truly connects the objects we put on the land with the planet below them. Thomas Fisher's breakthrough perspective challenges us to rethink almost everything—education, movement, consumption—to dramatically reshape the world each action designs."—R.T. Rybak, former mayor of Minneapolis, executive director of Generation Next, and author of Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis
"[Designing Our Way to a Better World] tosses out ideas like a firework tosses out sparks."—Planning Magazine
"Fisher lays our a compelling case for addressing the 'wicked problems' of our day with the power of design thinking. And he does so in a voice that seeks to appeal to a general audience--not just experts in various fields. Highly recommended Reading."—Architecture Minnesota
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
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. The Public Realm
10. The Infrastructure of Health
11. Healthy Landscapes
12. Viral Cities
Part V. Politics
13. Designer Politics
14. The Politics of No
15. Politics: Right and Wrong
Part VI. Economics
16. An Opposable Economy
17. A Third Industrial Revolution
18. Meta-design
Part VII. Beliefs
19. Community Resiliency
20. Evolutionary Transformation
21. Spatializing Knowledge
Postscript: A Past and Possible Future
Notes
Index
