The Re-Use Atlas; A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy by Duncan Baker-Brown

Author:Duncan Baker-Brown
Format: pdf
Tags: THIS BOOK IS A HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED ‘ATLAS’, taking the reader on a journey via four distinct ‘steps’ (recycle, reuse, reduce, closed loop), from a linear economy towards a system emulating the natural world – a circular economy. Featuring over 20 detailed case studies describing design exemplars from the worlds of textile and fashion design, product design, interior architecture, architecture and urban design, this book’s purpose is to show designers how they can successfully navigate and exploit the emerging field of resource management and the circular economy. Each step is supplemented with an in-depth interview with an expert who is successfully tackling one or more of these challenges that face all designers today and also includes contributory essays from, among others, Professor Walter Stahel of the Product-Life Institute, and Professor Jonathan Chapman, author of Emotionally Durable Design. 'Anticipating how something could be re-used at the point when it is first designed is now everyone’s responsibility. Readers of this book will be reminded of that. Professor Dr. Michael Braungart Co-Author Cradle to Cradle 'This book is full of positive stories, with tangible examples of projects that will inspire designers young and old to ‘mine the Anthropocene’. Politicians respond to ideas that have real, demonstrable examples backing them up. The Re-Use Atlas is full of those. I hope people get inspired, take note and take action. Dr. Caroline Lucas MP 'This rich compendium is for anyone interested in the responsibility that comes with the power of design to shape our world. Combining theory and practice it moves the debate beyond the why towards an applied circular economy we should all be practicing. Daniel Charny Director, From Now On and Professor of Design, Kingston University 'This is an inspirational book on an important topic – I hope it triggers a revolution in design. Mark Miodownik Professor of Materials & Society, Director, Institute of Making, UCL 'Duncan Baker Brown’s notion that we are beginning an era where we will be ‘mining the Anthropocene’ nicely captures the concept that humans are impacting not only earth’s surface and its atmosphere, but its crust too. This concept is well observed and game-changing. If we think as Baker-Brown does, cease our despoiling plunder of finite resources and turn to ingenuity in the re-use of that which we have already extracted, it may yet not be too late. He is a leading thinker who also demonstrates the way forward in practice. That’s what the best architects do. Benjamin Derbyshire Chair, HTA Design, RIBA President Elect
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00


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