Design Roots
Walker, Stuart / Evans, Martyn / Cassidy, Tom / Holroyd, Amy Twigger / Jung, Jeyon 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 globalization and urbanization. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opport...