John Thackara

Shows you how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. This title describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in several ways. Many of these services involve technology - ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets.

Designing in a Complex World

In the Bubble

John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs in a sustainable way. He believes that in our eagerness to find technological solutions to the big challenges faced by the human race, we have all too often ignored the astonishing creativity generated when people work together and in harmony with the world around them. Drawing on an inspiring range of examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali that dates back hundreds of years to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara shows that below the radar of the mainstream media there are global communities creating a replacement economy from the ground up. Through a series of chapters each devoted to essential human concerns, he demonstrates that it is possible to live a rich and fulfilling life based on stewardship rather than exploitation of the natural environment. Ultimately optimistic, Thackara believes that through a huge variety of quiet, piecemeal changes of thought and action, we are coming to a tipping point: the end of one civilization - but the beginning of another.

Designing Tomorrow's World Today

How to Thrive in the Next Economy

diseñar hoy el mundo del futuro

Cómo prosperar en la economía sostenible

Beyond the Object

Design After Modernism

How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

Netherlands Design Institute

Circus of Science for the 21st Century : Proposes by the Netherlands Design Institute (co-ordinator)

Simplexity

John Thackara

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