Dear All,
The thread on topics variously labeled sustainable design, design for sustainability, etc., is both interesting and confusing.
This points to the need for a serious critical literature review on these issues. Such a review would both describe the relevant design literature, and it would build bridges from the design literature to the literature of sustainable development and the UN Sustainability Goals.
If anyone were to write such a literature review, I would be eager to publish it in She Ji.
Attached to this post, I send a useful article by Jane Webster and Richard Watson on writing critical literature review articles. The article is from 2002, but it is still useful. For those who want to write a literature review, I also suggest reading Chris Hart’s excellent book from Sage, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination, 2nd edition.
You can order it from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Literature-Review-Releasing-Imagination/dp/1526419211 <https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Literature-Review-Releasing-Imagination/dp/1526419211>
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doing-Literature-Review-Releasing-Imagination/dp/1526419211 <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doing-Literature-Review-Releasing-Imagination/dp/1526419211>
Our field lacks the solid tradition of literature review articles that is so important to the development of other fields. This thread would be far more beneficial with such an article in the background.
If someone were to write one, the field would benefit. If you’re interested, drop me an off list note.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
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