Design Realities : creativity, nature and the human spirit
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 231717574
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138580206
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- In Design Realities Walker intentionally adopted a very different, innovative approach that diverges from his previous books – its form is geared to designers and design students. It comprises 100 chapters that combine scholarly writings with position pieces, photo essays, observations and poetry. It also combines head and heart, and the evidence-based, rational mind with the intuitive, imaginative, creative mind – it is an approach that is, in its very nature, tailored to designerly ways of thinking-and-doing. The book is creative in both its conception and content as reflected in reviews. In The Design Journal, Santamaria comments: ‘What this book does best is bringing together for the first time some very useful foundational concepts for creative practice in a society that holds holistic well-being as a priority. In the era of ‘future thinking’, ‘smart cities’ and ‘ecosystem design’, I wonder how many scholars have set out to consider and reflect on the makeup and characteristics of the ‘cultural software’ – the historical, ideological and philosophical assumptions – that drives them. Without a doubt, what Walker has produced here is a non-instrumental comprehensive compendium of reflections, directions and premises to build upon, which is well-suited to that purpose.’ The publication of this book led to invitations to deliver keynote addresses at Hunan University, China and Graz, Austria (postponed due to Covid) and participation in a PRAXIS event in Lebanon; online keynotes to ArchNet, Saudi Arabia and Corvinus University of Budapest; participation in a Webinar at Sao Paulo University Brazil and an online lecture at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. The work in this book also informed the development of a successful AHRC-Newton grant (£244,680.90; PI).
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