Design Roots: Local Products and Practices in a Globalized World

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 opportunities...

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