Designing Sustainable Futures
How to Imagine, Create, and Lead the Transition to a Better World
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-032-58841-4 (ISBN)
Description
We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present. The book you hold seeks to be a thought-provoking approach to imagine, create, and lead the journey to a more sustainable world - where a spectrum of choices, including regenerative practices, await conscientious citizens, companies, and communities.
With this objective, and to help reverse the megatrends of economic disparity, social injustice, and climate change, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano came together to prototype an approach to prepare all practitioners who seek to leverage the future to infuse our present with more impact and agency.
Guided by global experts and inspired by a growing network of future-makers, the authors share essential insights from this emerging landscape, offering thought-provoking theory, innovative experiments, real-world experiences, and practitioner stories. We draw insight and inspiration from many contemporary theories and practices, including strategic foresight, experiential futures, speculative design, design fiction, systems design, participatory design, and transformative leadership, and an emerging entry with genAI-augmented design.
Regardless of whether you have a design or management background, or want to create a for-profit or non-profit, this book enables professionals across industries, as well as students preparing for a career in strategy, innovation, or transformation, the knowledge, skills, and confidence to strengthen resilience and guide the transition to the more sustainable practices of a better world.
With this objective, and to help reverse the megatrends of economic disparity, social injustice, and climate change, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano came together to prototype an approach to prepare all practitioners who seek to leverage the future to infuse our present with more impact and agency.
Guided by global experts and inspired by a growing network of future-makers, the authors share essential insights from this emerging landscape, offering thought-provoking theory, innovative experiments, real-world experiences, and practitioner stories. We draw insight and inspiration from many contemporary theories and practices, including strategic foresight, experiential futures, speculative design, design fiction, systems design, participatory design, and transformative leadership, and an emerging entry with genAI-augmented design.
Regardless of whether you have a design or management background, or want to create a for-profit or non-profit, this book enables professionals across industries, as well as students preparing for a career in strategy, innovation, or transformation, the knowledge, skills, and confidence to strengthen resilience and guide the transition to the more sustainable practices of a better world.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Adult education, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
88 farbige Abbildungen, 57 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 31 farbige Zeichnungen
31 Line drawings, color; 57 Halftones, color; 88 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
616 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-58841-4 (9781032588414)
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Joseph Press | Manuela Celi
Designing Sustainable Futures
How to Imagine, Create, and Lead the Transition to a Better World
E-Book
10/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€44.99
Available for download
Joseph Press | Manuela Celi
Designing Sustainable Futures
How to Imagine, Create, and Lead the Transition to a Better World
Book
10/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
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Joseph Press | Manuela Celi
Designing Sustainable Futures
How to Imagine, Create, and Lead the Transition to a Better World
E-Book
10/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€44.99
Available for download
Persons
Vice-Dean and Professor Joseph Press, PhD, is a futures architect at the Institute for the Future and currently the Vice-Dean of NACAA - an intercultural design institute in Hangzhou, China, founded by the China Academy Of Art and L`Ecole De Design Nantes Atlantique (EDNA). Previously he was a futures architect at Institute For the Future and visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano, in both the Management and Design Schools. For over 25 years, he has advised organizations in imagining, designing, and implementing more sustainable practices. He holds a SMArchS in Architectural Design and PhD from MIT in Design Technology. At POLI.design, he co-led the pilot program Designing Sustainable Futures and convened the creative community for the Designing with Emerging Technologies global seminar series. He has co-authored books on digital transformation, futures of working and living, and social entrepreneurialism. Actively and continues to assists organizations in the transition to a better world.
Professor Manuela Celi holds a PhD in Design and is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Engaged in the Design PhD Board and Rectors' delegate for talent development, she navigates diverse sectors by delving into the multifaceted realms of design-related knowledge. Proficient in teaching product design, metadesign, and design futures, she leads the FUEL4Design.org research project, merging design with humanities and speculative inquiry. Prof. Celi's insights, showcased in renowned journals like Futures and The Design Journal, manifest her fusion of anticipation with critical design, offering unusual perspectives for envisioning transformative futures.
Professor Manuela Celi holds a PhD in Design and is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Engaged in the Design PhD Board and Rectors' delegate for talent development, she navigates diverse sectors by delving into the multifaceted realms of design-related knowledge. Proficient in teaching product design, metadesign, and design futures, she leads the FUEL4Design.org research project, merging design with humanities and speculative inquiry. Prof. Celi's insights, showcased in renowned journals like Futures and The Design Journal, manifest her fusion of anticipation with critical design, offering unusual perspectives for envisioning transformative futures.
Content
Foreword. Preface. Introduction. PART I: Anticipate Better Futures. Chapter 1: Experiencing Foresight. Chapter 2: Speculating Futures. Chapter 3: Generating Visions. PART II: Create Sustainable Experiences. Chapter 4: Building Worlds. Chapter 5: Shaping Systems. Chapter 6: Designing Fictions PART III: Lead the Transition. Chapter 7: Cultivating Collaboration. Chapter 8: Making Stories. Chapter 9: Mobilizing Leadership. Afterword: Designing Your Sustainable Future. Acknowledgements. Author and Faculty Profiles. Appendix I: Anticipating Futures with AI (Cheat Sheet). Appendix II: Futureback Leadership. Bibliography.