Design Appreciation: How Design Shapes Our Quality of Life and Our Ability to Live Sustainably
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 370
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The human experience has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years through a series of design innovations. That story was a long, slow evolution until we learned to effectively utilize fossil fuels to power machines in the 1700s. From that point forward, our creativity has expanded the scope of comfort, convenience, leisure, and wealth in our lives exponentially. In that relatively short span of time, we have also managed to create the potential for our own demise with climate change caused by wastefully burning the fossil fuel energy that makes the world we live in possible.
Design Appreciation: How Design Shapes Our Quality of Life and Our Ability to Live Sustainably is a story written as a conversation between the author and students that explores the human story of design innovation and proposes ideas and plans for a better, brighter future.
Each chapter includes conversation between the author and students along with a mix of recorded PowerPoint presentations, links to relevant YouTube videos, discussion questions, links to readings, and other supporting materials.
Chapter 1: Welcome to Design Appreciation
Chapter 2: We’re All in This Together
Chapter 3: Sunscreen
Chapter 4: AgriCULTURE
Chapter 5: Heavy Metal
Chapter 6: What Time Is It?
Chapter 7: The Strangest Day of My Life
Chapter 8: What’s That Smell?
Chapter 9: Life Is Good
Chapter 10: The Works
Chapter 11: Let’s Go
Chapter 12: Starchitects and Pillow Fluffers
Chapter 13: A Good Walk Spoiled
Chapter 14: Uh, Okay, Sure
Chapter 15: Fries with That?
Chapter 16: An Apple a Day
Chapter 17: 9 to 5, or Whatever It Takes
Chapter 18: Oops, I Didn’t See That Coming
Chapter 19: Juice
Chapter 20: Economy of Waste
Chapter 21: Divergent Futures
Chapter 22: Quarter Mile
Chapter 23: Land Yacht
Chapter 24: Taxes. . . Zzzzzz
Chapter 25: A Penny a Week
Chapter 26: It’s All You
Greg Tew is a designer and educator with international recognition and awards for his work as an architect, interior designer, and industrial designer. Throughout his career, Greg has attempted to create memorable designs from a pragmatic focus on problem solving. That strategy has led to publication of his work in leading design and news publications around the world including: Detail, Architectural Review, l’architecture d’aujourd’ hui, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, ARCHITECT, Ottagono, Metropolitan Home, Architecture, Interior Design, Interiors, and Gourmet, as well as the books XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings and PreFab: Adaptable, Modular, Dismountable, Light, Mobile Architecture.
As an academic, Greg has taught architecture and interior design and has won numerous awards including the Virginia Tech Sporn Award for Teaching Introductory Courses—that prestigious award is the only university-level teaching award where the winner is nominated by students and selected by a committee of students. Greg was also inducted as a member of the Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence.
His primary focus in teaching during the past 10 years has been the ongoing development of Design Appreciation, a course focused on the grand challenge of our time—imagining a way of living that is unquestionably better than the life we live today and that is also sustainable.