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Designing the Just Transition

Design-Politics, Labor, and Post-Carbon Futures

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Designing the Just Transition

Design-Politics, Labor, and Post-Carbon Futures

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Description

As the impetus to build post-carbon futures becomes an ever more urgent driver of politics, culture and innovation, Imagining the Just Transition evaluates the design choices we might make in order to invent, redirect, or repair our existing material and digital cultures, infrastructures, and landscapes.

Starting from the acknowledgement that much of the history of design has failed to address sustainability and the climate crisis, this book elaborates new pathways and possibilities for designing a more environmentally and socially just future - any transition to which will have to be materialized and built, coded and created, imagined and enacted.

Through an engagement with histories of sustainable, ecological, anti-racist, feminist, and labor-friendly traditions of design, Imagining the Just Transition posits possible new modes to which the discipline can propel and embody new social and political imaginaries.

Table of Contents

1. Resisting the 'It's Too Late-ocene'
2. Just Transitions and Design for Transitions
3. The Legacies and Limits of Sustainable/Eco/Green Design
4. The Institutional Gap in Critical Design Studies
5. The Green New Deal, Landscape, Infrastructure and Public Imagination
6. Labor Centered Design for Sustainability
7. Racial Capitalism and The Power Geometries of Post-carbon Transitions
8. Design Futuring for Impermanence and Radical Ongoingness
9. Planetary Designs?
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Mar 05 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781350332553
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Just Sustainabilities
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Damian White

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Nicholas Pevzner

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