Designing through Planetary Breakdown

“This is an agenda-setting book that explores the many ways in which design labour is contributing to struggles for realising post-carbon futures. … Designing through Planetary Breakdown makes a major contribution to emerging discussion between design studies and design practice, the critical social sciences and environmental and climate studies.”

Professor Damian White, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

“Designing through Planetary Breakdown is part of wave of literature on expanded design practice, not just theory, for transitions by design. This honest and practical book presents a series of design responses to planetary breakdown. With case studies of design for care, repair and resilience, the text presents the problems and possibilities that emerge at the margins as design develops new approaches for adaptation.”

Dr Joanna Boehnert, Bath Spa University, author of Design, Ecology, Politics

Jesse Adams Stein is an interdisciplinary design researcher and historian specialising in the relationship between technology, work and material culture. She is a senior lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney. She recently completed an ARC DECRA Fellowship examining the connectivity between local manufacturing production, design education and vocational training in Australia, focusing on the 1980s to the present.

Chantel Carr is a human geographer and ARC DECRA Fellow in Geography and Sustainability at the University of Wollongong. Carr’s research examines the social and labour dimensions of decarbonisation and energy transitions across multiple spatial scales. Funded by the Australian Research Council and government partners, Carr’s research has examined energy transitions in the built environment, reskilling challenges for workers in carbon-intensive sectors, and household sustainability practices.