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How To Thrive In The Next Economy : Designing Tomorrow's World Today
Paperback Edition: 1
John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs in a sustainable way. He believes that in our eagerness to find technological solutions to the big challenges faced by the human race, we have all too often
ignored the astonishing creativity generated when people work together and in harmony with the world around them. Drawing on an inspiring range of examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali that dates back hundreds of years to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara shows that below the radar of the mainstream media there are global communities creating a replacement economy from the ground up.
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Pages : 192
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Publication date : 2017-03-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film