V&A: Fashioned from Nature – Edwina Ehrman & Emma Watson

Summary Fashion has always sought to celebrate nature—from sumptuous silks and floral patterns to the spectacular creations of designers such…

Materials Experience – Fundamentals of Materials and Design – Elvin Karana

Summary There currently exists an abundance of materials selection advice for designers suited to solving technical product requirements. In contrast,…

Nature: Collaborations in Design – McQuaid, Condell, Bertrand

Summary With design, we have the ability to become active agents in our relationship with nature. As humans contend with…

Next Nature Book (2019) – Koert van Mensvoort

This book is written in Dutch Summary Bij ‘natuur’ denken we eerder aan een bos dan aan een snelweg. Maar…

Next Nature Book – Next Nature Network

We debate saving nature, we dream about escaping to nature, but rarely do we ask “What is nature?”. The Next…

The Blue Economy – Gunter Pauli

“Gunter Pauli (born 1956 in Antwerp) is an entrepreneur and author of The Blue Economy. He has been called “”The…

Form Follows Organism – Emma van der Leest

‘Form Follows Organism: The biological computer’ is a book about biodesign and the shifting role of the (product) designer. ‘Form…

Ecological Medicine, healing the earth and healing ourselves, edited by Kenny Ausubel with J. P. Harpignies

Download here the e-Book Ecological Medicine, Healing the Earth and Healing Ourselves, edited by Kenny Ausubel with J. P. Harpignies

Design and Biotechnology: an Exploration of Possibilities of Objectifying Living Organisms, Oron Catts

Article Design and Biotechnology: an Exploration of Possibilities of Objectifying Living Organisms, by Oron Catts, published in The Journal of…

Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth

Summary Kate Raworth is an English economist working for the University of Oxford. She is known for her work on…