描述
A Sustainist Lexicon: Seven Entries to Recast the Future — Rethinking Design and Heritage. By Michiel Schwarz. With field notes bij Riemer Knoop and sustainist symbols by Joost Elffers.Words are our first tools for making sense of the world. ‘A Sustainist Lexicon’ presents seven words for a changing time. In this timely exploration of our cities, heritage, civic initiatives, urbanism and the future, Michiel Schwarz, co- creator of the Sustainism manifesto, charts how a new ethos and praxis is emerging in the design of our living environment. This concise lexicon explores the changing cultural landscape through seven entries: Placemaking, Connectedness, Local, Commons, Circularity, Proportionality, and Co-Design. In doing so, it marks inroads into a sustainist culture, that is more connected, locally-rooted, collaborative, respectful of the human scalem and altogether more environmentally and socially sustainable. Looking at today’s vocabulary through a ‘sustains lens’, Michiel Schwarz reframes our changing relationships with the built and natural environment, and prompts us to re-imagine what that implies for (urban) design and cultural heritage.
