Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices

by Jeyon Jung, Martyn Evans, Amy Twigger Holroyd, et al.

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474241794
• ISBN13: 9781474241793
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"