Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
- Length: 376 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- ISBN-10: 0262047950
- ISBN-13: 9780262047951
- Sales Rank: #11028 (See Top 100 Books)
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.
The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major themes: meaning, sustainability, and humanity-centeredness. Emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards; restructure how we live to better protect the environment; and focus on all of humanity. Design for a Better World presents an eye-opening diagnosis of where we’ve gone wrong and a clear prescription for making things better.
Norman proposes a new way of thinking, one that recognizes our place in a complex global system where even simple behaviors affect the entire world. He identifies the economic metrics that contribute to the harmful effects of commerce and manufacturing and proposes a recalibration of what we consider important in life. His experience as both a scientist and business executive gives him the perspective to show how to make these changes while maintaining a thriving economy. Let the change begin with this book before it’s too late
Cover Contents I Artificial 1: Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed 2: Our Artificial Way of Life Is Unsustainable 3: Why History Matters 4: Precise—but Artificial—Measurements 5: If Technology Got Us into Today's Situation, Maybe Technology Can Get Us Out 6: This Book: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity Centered II Meaningful 7: The Need for Meaning 8: Measurement in the Physical Sciences 9: Measuring What Is Important to People 10: The Gross Domestic Product 11: What Measures Are Truly Important to People? 12: Human Behavior and Economics III Sustainable 13: We Live in the Age of Waste 14: How Did the World Get into Today's Quandary? 15: Sustainability Has Multiple Components and Implications 16: Design, Products, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy 17: The Practical Difficulties of Implementing Circular Design 18: Sustainable, Robust, and Resilient Systems 19: People's Understanding of Systems 20: Working with Complex Sociotechnical Systems 21: It Is Not Too Late IV Humanity Centered 22: Moving from Humans to Humanity 23: Democratizing Design and Development 24: People Designing for Themselves 25: DesignX: An Approach to Large, Complex Systems 26: Where Incrementalism (Muddling Through) Fails 27: Incremental Modular Design 28: When Large, Multidisciplinary Projects Are Necessary 29: Dealing with Scale 30: Design: Necessary but Not Sufficient V Human Behavior 31: Why Change Is Difficult 32: People Will Mobilize for a Common Goal 33: What Must Change? 34: The Dominance of Technology 35: The Future of Technology VI Action 36: What Can Be Done? 37: What Can We Do? 38: The Major Points of This Book Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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