The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer's Guide Towards the Circular Economy - Softcover

Baker-Brown, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859466443 ISBN 13: 9781859466445

Publisher: RIBA Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This book is a highly illustrated 'atlas’, taking the reader on a journey via four distinct ‘steps’ (recycling, reuse, reduce, closed loop), from a linear economy towards a system emulating the natural world, i.e. a circular economy. Featuring over 25 inspiring case studies describing design exemplars from the worlds of textile and fashion design, product design, architecture and urban design, this book's purpose is to show designers how they can help dramatically reduce the negative impact humans have on Planet Earth by successfully navigating the emerging fields 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 present all designers today and includes contributory essays from, among others, Professor Walter Stahel of the Product-Life Institute, and Professor Jonathan Chapman, author of 'Emotionally Durable Design’.

About this title

About the Author

Duncan Baker-Brown has taught architecture at the University of Brighton at both undergraduate, post-graduate and RIBA Part 3 levels for over 20 years. From 2011-2014 Duncan designed, coordinated and built Europe’s first permanent public building made from material others had discarded, The Brighton Waste House, on campus at the College of Arts & Humanities.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859466443
• ISBN 13: 9781859466445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192