In the Bubble(Updated) Designing in a Complex World (The MIT Press) by JohnThackara Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-70115-0, ISBN: 0-262-70115-4
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it ..."
How to Thrive in the Next Economy(1st Edition) Designing Tomorrow's World Today by JohnThackara Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29294-5, ISBN: 0-500-29294-9
"“Enlightening… In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes ‘an economy based on social energy,’ that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used… Recommended.”―ChoiceAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges―climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare―that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the g ..."
How to Thrive in the Next Economy(1st Edition) Designing Tomorrow's World Today by JohnThackara Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51808-3, ISBN: 0-500-51808-4
"A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware design Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges―climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare―that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed but ultimately optimistic book, he arg ..."
In the Bubble(1st Edition) Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press) by JohnThackara Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-20157-5, ISBN: 0-262-20157-7
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it ..."
Winners!(1st Edition) How Today's Successful Companies Innovate by Design by JohnThackara Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1997 by Gower Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-566-07954-2, ISBN: 0-566-07954-2
"Innovation is essential for survival, but it can also hold the key to fantastic success. If innovation is important to you, this book will inspire you by showing you how others have innovated their way to success."
Design After Modernism(1st Edition) Beyond the Object by JohnThackara Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1988 by Thames & Hudson Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-500-23483-9, ISBN: 0-500-23483-3
"Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna provides the architectural setting for some of the most stylist fashion outlets in London, Paris, Germany and the US. "Mega VI "features 12 of her London schemes. A fully illustrated interview tells the story of her background in Czechoslovakia and the impact on her work of the architectural scene she discovered on moving to London after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968."
"Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics. This challenging work provides th ..."
"Dott (Designs of the time) is a collaboration between the Design Council and, in 2007, the regional development agency One North East."
The MIT Press Ser. In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World by JohnThackara 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-25037-5, ISBN: 0-262-25037-3
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In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World by JohnThackara Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-4237-3080-4, ISBN: 1-4237-3080-1
"A book which portrays a future view of London as conceived by one of Britain's leading avant-garde architects, Nigel Coates. Cities are physically the sum of their buildings, roads, tunnels, tracks and towers."
"These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, ..."
Design After Modernism(Updated) Beyond the Object by JohnThackara Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1989 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27510-8, ISBN: 0-500-27510-6
""Green Dream" investigates what "green" means in practical terms for design, architecture and urbanism. Led by The Why Factory, the urbanist thinktank headed by Winy Maas, experts in the field debate what is currently considered green and how the term ought to be defined going forward, challenging architectural conventions and looking into the potential of new green architecture. Recognizing that green buildings alone do not make a gree ..."