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Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives
Integral Sustainable Design Transformative Perspectives Author:Mark DeKay This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today?s diverse stakeholders. — It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main... more » perspectives of: Behaviors, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Integral waves.
Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including:
- Twelve Principles of Integral Sustainable Design
- Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design
- Six Perceptual Shifts for Ecological Design Thinking
- Five Levels of Sustainable Design Aesthetics
- Ten Injunctions for Designing Connections to Nature« less