Tools for the Design Revolution - Design knowledge for the future - Grand Format

How can you determine the climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions of an espresso machine using a hammer, a screwdriver and a kitchen scale ? Switching between activist demands and subtle humor, Tools for the Design Revolution illustrates the role design can lay in formularing a substainable society based on global solidarity. Many barely notices everyday objects have a massive impact on the environment.
The book illustrates this clearly and presents practical tools that designers, businesses and consumers alike can use as basic equipment for a reflected life. These promote informed design, develoment and consumption of design that breaks away from traditional subject-specific ideas. The design knowledge for the future comes out of learning from and with each other through experimental strategies and models of thinking in conjunction with scientifically based methos.
It opens up spaces of thought and action for change and imparts practical knowlegde to design a different future.