Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Pt. I. Rethinking the context and practice of design. 1. Understanding the nature of practice
- 2. Understanding the directional nature of design
- 3. The imperative and redirection
- 4. Design as a redirective practice
- 5. Reviewing two key redirective practices
- 6. Futuring, redirective practice, development and culture
- Pt. II. Strategic design thinking. 7. Unpacking futuring : 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
- Pt. III. 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 : dig where you stand
- 16. Challenges of sustainment and futuring : a review of change agents
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Illustration credits
- Index.