Description
Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and our constricted notions of progress have contributed to today’s crisis of values, and argues for a re-establishment and re-affirmation of self-transcending priorities, together with an ethos of moderation and sufficiency.
A wide range of topics are covered, including material culture and spiritual teachings; sustainability and the spiritual perspective; traditional and indigenous knowledge; technology and spirituality; notions of meaningful design; and how particular material things can have deeper, symbolic significance. There are also reflections on areas such as the language of design; busyness and its relationship to wisdom; design and social disparity; and traditional sacred practices. While not avoiding issues that are controversial, and sometimes hard-hitting, Design and Spirituality gets to the heart of the key issues affecting us today and presents them in a highly readable and accessible format.
The author is a leading thinker in the field and he presents his arguments in a manner that invites the reader to reflect and think about where we are going, why we are going there and what really matters.
Podcasts
https://www.jesuit.ie/podcasts/the-spiritual-dimension-of-design/
https://newbooksnetwork.com/design-and-spirituality
Table of Contents
Foreword
- Introduction
- The Nature of Design
- Material Things and Spiritual Teachings
- Sustainability and Secular Liberalism
- Busyness and Wisdom
- Heartless
- When the Devil Drives
- Nipping the Bloom
- The Serpentine Walk
- Language Speaks
- A Complacency of Strangers
- Insecticides and Suicides
- Transcending Technology
- Jericho Road
- Design and Spirituality
- Lucratively Loveless
- Unity, Love and Design
- Shallowness and Depth
- An Impression of Intentionality
- Failings
- The Inner Flame
- Religion and Atheism
- Techno-spirituality
- A Higher Purpose
- Material Things and Spiritual Goods
- Meaningful Design
- The Deeper Significance of Things
- At the Valley
- Traditional Knowledge
- The Dobby Stone
- Natural Magic
- Ex Voto
- The Well of Fajã dos Padres
- Sacred Smoke
- Under the Volcano
- An Expression of the Sacred
- The Mexelhote and the Molinillo
- An Object of my Affection
- Memento Mori
- Bread of Life
- The Conference of the Blind
- Something and Nothing
- The Faraway Bird
- Aesthetic Roots
- Wabi Sabi
- A Beachfront View
- Local
- Provenance, Presence and Posterity
- Tradition
- Nootka Sound
- Along the Highway
- Clear cut
- A Northern Town
- Vanity Fair
- What is Truth?
- The Spiritual Sensibility
- A Suitable Metaphor
- Higher Goods
- Making Special
- Truth, Goodness and Beauty
- Creating from the Heart
- Sine Fide
- The Third Exit
- Restart or Reform?
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
