Designer Activism
The Salvation Army’s Turk Street Center, designed by Herman Coliver Locus, is that rare building which both honors the context of an historic district and stands out as decidedly contemporary.
The Ninth World Social Forum 2009 took place in Belem, Brazil but did little to highlight the city’s own social problems.
Supposing that occasionally taking the long contemplative view is indeed a good thing, where do you stand to get one? One place where your search will be rewarded is The Long Now Foundation’s Museum and Store.
The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability is about how design in all fields can move toward the goals of sustainability; the integration of information about design and sustainability rewards users with a rich range of ideas, concepts, and facts presented in a sophisticated format that is itself thought-provoking. As with other kinds of atlases, the varied text does not converge on one conclusion. Rather, readers take what they need to make their own.
This densely written and wonderfully illustrated book seeks answers to questions such as: what is wrong with the cities we have created and what can be done to correct our mistakes?