Design roots

'Design Roots' provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products, and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place.

Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation.

Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design.

This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions.