The Climate Domesday Book

The Climate Domesday Book includes contributions from climate-conscious writers, artists, research scientists, designers and activists from Australia and the UK. The book is a speculative design, intended to provoke public thought and action on the climate emergency and to explore new ways of commun...

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Main Authors: Ely, Philip, Frohlich, David Mark, Bairaktaris, George, Yuan, Haiyue, Sporea, Radu, Silva, Angie, Sunley Smith, Andrew, Kinsella, John, Sharma, Astha, Beck, Fiona, Mgee, Charlie, Sadokierski, Zoë, Rissanen, Timo, Quinlan, Brenna, Flack, Chris, Ihlein, Lucas, de Vietri, Gabrielle, Sidnell, Tim, Stott, Ash, Underwood, Cameron, Zhou, Sien, Spencer, Mark, The Formidable Vegetable Sound System, Richards, Harry, Hardhat Studios, Conforto, Pete, Not Another[tm], Studio Band, Weiss, Melissa, Jahchan, Chantal, Pelham, Jonathan
Format: Non traditional textual works
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2022
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Online Access:http://climatedomesday.com/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88792
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author Ely, Philip
Frohlich, David Mark
Bairaktaris, George
Yuan, Haiyue
Sporea, Radu
Silva, Angie
Sunley Smith, Andrew
Kinsella, John
Sharma, Astha
Beck, Fiona
Mgee, Charlie
Sadokierski, Zoë
Rissanen, Timo
Quinlan, Brenna
Flack, Chris
Ihlein, Lucas
de Vietri, Gabrielle
Sidnell, Tim
Stott, Ash
Underwood, Cameron
Zhou, Sien
Spencer, Mark
The Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Richards, Harry
Hardhat Studios
Conforto, Pete
Not Another[tm]
Studio Band
Weiss, Melissa
Jahchan, Chantal
Pelham, Jonathan
author2 Ely, Philip
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Frohlich, David Mark
Bairaktaris, George
Yuan, Haiyue
Sporea, Radu
Silva, Angie
Sunley Smith, Andrew
Kinsella, John
Sharma, Astha
Beck, Fiona
Mgee, Charlie
Sadokierski, Zoë
Rissanen, Timo
Quinlan, Brenna
Flack, Chris
Ihlein, Lucas
de Vietri, Gabrielle
Sidnell, Tim
Stott, Ash
Underwood, Cameron
Zhou, Sien
Spencer, Mark
The Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Richards, Harry
Hardhat Studios
Conforto, Pete
Not Another[tm]
Studio Band
Weiss, Melissa
Jahchan, Chantal
Pelham, Jonathan
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description The Climate Domesday Book includes contributions from climate-conscious writers, artists, research scientists, designers and activists from Australia and the UK. The book is a speculative design, intended to provoke public thought and action on the climate emergency and to explore new ways of communicating through design and technology. It demonstrates how design research can bring together diverse disciplinary perspectives, to re-present and amplify a plurality of voices from across temporal and geographic zones. As a speculative design with multi-modal forms of communication (writing, talking, reading, listening, watching), its final manifestation is intended to show the power of human ingenuity and common cause. It is a book as a curated event; as a programme; as a protest; as a survey of ideas. It owes its coming into being to 1960’s counterculture, to the grand ideas of R.Buckminster Fuller and to the electric information age books of Marshall McLuhan, Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore. In the creation of an experimental hybrid print-digital book on a topic as essential as the future of energy and the planet, design research becomes more than assembling and packaging (a ‘first order’ concern) but an uncertain, collaborative, and activist mode of knowledge-making (a ‘fourth order’).1 It attempts to make sense of a complex challenge (saving planetary species from extinction), invites dialogue between readers and writers and – eventually – stimulate action. It is a speculative design that provides space for contemplation, for inspiration, for engaging the pragmatic and the imaginary. “But it’s just a book. How can a book make a difference?” To which we would respond: “What world-changing events in the world have not been book-inspired?” We want it to be the first book of many: for others to take our technology, our designs and our ideas and make their own Climate Domesday Book in their city. Our Book-of-the-Future is a book, podcast, music video, poem, a window onto ground-breaking science, a manifesto-in-the-making, a clarion call, a gallery-within-a-gallery, a cultural census, a design of possibilities. It is more than a work of art. It is a design with purpose.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-887922022-12-01T07:45:55Z The Climate Domesday Book Ely, Philip Frohlich, David Mark Bairaktaris, George Yuan, Haiyue Sporea, Radu Silva, Angie Sunley Smith, Andrew Kinsella, John Sharma, Astha Beck, Fiona Mgee, Charlie Sadokierski, Zoë Rissanen, Timo Quinlan, Brenna Flack, Chris Ihlein, Lucas de Vietri, Gabrielle Sidnell, Tim Stott, Ash Underwood, Cameron Zhou, Sien Spencer, Mark The Formidable Vegetable Sound System Richards, Harry Hardhat Studios Conforto, Pete Not Another[tm] Studio Band Weiss, Melissa Jahchan, Chantal Pelham, Jonathan Ely, Philip Frohlich, David Mark 3303 - Design Climate Change Interaction Design 1203 - Design Practice and Management The Climate Domesday Book includes contributions from climate-conscious writers, artists, research scientists, designers and activists from Australia and the UK. The book is a speculative design, intended to provoke public thought and action on the climate emergency and to explore new ways of communicating through design and technology. It demonstrates how design research can bring together diverse disciplinary perspectives, to re-present and amplify a plurality of voices from across temporal and geographic zones. As a speculative design with multi-modal forms of communication (writing, talking, reading, listening, watching), its final manifestation is intended to show the power of human ingenuity and common cause. It is a book as a curated event; as a programme; as a protest; as a survey of ideas. It owes its coming into being to 1960’s counterculture, to the grand ideas of R.Buckminster Fuller and to the electric information age books of Marshall McLuhan, Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore. In the creation of an experimental hybrid print-digital book on a topic as essential as the future of energy and the planet, design research becomes more than assembling and packaging (a ‘first order’ concern) but an uncertain, collaborative, and activist mode of knowledge-making (a ‘fourth order’).1 It attempts to make sense of a complex challenge (saving planetary species from extinction), invites dialogue between readers and writers and – eventually – stimulate action. It is a speculative design that provides space for contemplation, for inspiration, for engaging the pragmatic and the imaginary. “But it’s just a book. How can a book make a difference?” To which we would respond: “What world-changing events in the world have not been book-inspired?” We want it to be the first book of many: for others to take our technology, our designs and our ideas and make their own Climate Domesday Book in their city. Our Book-of-the-Future is a book, podcast, music video, poem, a window onto ground-breaking science, a manifesto-in-the-making, a clarion call, a gallery-within-a-gallery, a cultural census, a design of possibilities. It is more than a work of art. It is a design with purpose. 2022 Non traditional textual works http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88792 English http://climatedomesday.com/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle 3303 - Design
Climate Change
Interaction Design
1203 - Design Practice and Management
Ely, Philip
Frohlich, David Mark
Bairaktaris, George
Yuan, Haiyue
Sporea, Radu
Silva, Angie
Sunley Smith, Andrew
Kinsella, John
Sharma, Astha
Beck, Fiona
Mgee, Charlie
Sadokierski, Zoë
Rissanen, Timo
Quinlan, Brenna
Flack, Chris
Ihlein, Lucas
de Vietri, Gabrielle
Sidnell, Tim
Stott, Ash
Underwood, Cameron
Zhou, Sien
Spencer, Mark
The Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Richards, Harry
Hardhat Studios
Conforto, Pete
Not Another[tm]
Studio Band
Weiss, Melissa
Jahchan, Chantal
Pelham, Jonathan
The Climate Domesday Book
title The Climate Domesday Book
title_full The Climate Domesday Book
title_fullStr The Climate Domesday Book
title_full_unstemmed The Climate Domesday Book
title_short The Climate Domesday Book
title_sort climate domesday book
topic 3303 - Design
Climate Change
Interaction Design
1203 - Design Practice and Management
url http://climatedomesday.com/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88792