1. Introduction --
2. Rethinking material culture: the cage of aesthetic convention --
3. Sustainable development in context: the evolution of a contemporary myth --
4. Design process and sustainable development a journey in design --
5. Enduring artefacts and sustainable solutions: object lessons --
6. Reassessing 'good' design: objects as symbols of beauty --
7. Design, sustainability and the human spirit: how the other half lives --
8. Fashion and sustainability: the attraction of opposites --
9. The application of theory: experiments in sustainable product design --
10. Tacit knowledge in design: visual myths --
11. Reframing design for sustainability unmasking the object --
12. Time and design: crushed before the moth--
13. Creating objects in a saturated culture: after the endgame --
14. Ephemeral objects for sustainability: light touch --
15. Intellectual and aesthetic understandings of design the considered gaze --
16. Epilogue.

To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of designing. Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal