Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo and a founding member of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. He is the author of Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse (2017) and Design History: Understanding Theory and Method (2010), editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (2012), and co-editor, with Grace Lees-Maffei, of the book series Cultural Histories of Design as well as the volumes Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (2016) and Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (2014).

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Introduction: The Culture of Nature in the History of Design

Kjetil Fallan

Part 1: Conceptual Environments

1. Design's Ecological Operating Environments

Simon Sadler

2. Pattern Watchers I: Environmental Seeing, c. 1970
   Larry Busbea
3. Computing Environmental Design
   Peder Anker
4. Ludic Pedagogies at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, 1966 to 1972
   Timothy Stott

Part 2: Ecotopian Landscapes

5. A Cityless and Countryless World: The Total Appropriation of Nature in Victorian Utopias
   Nathaniel R. Walker
6. Clean and Disciplined: The Garden City in Singapore
   Jesse O'Neill
7. Desertification, or Designing New Worlds in the Dust
   Fattori Fraser
8. 'There's a World Going on Underground': Ecotopian Realism in Subterranean Design
   Even Smith Wergeland

Part 3: Design in the Garden

9. Contested Development: ICSID's Design Aid and Environmental Policy in the 1970s
   Tania Messel
10. Power in the Landscape: Regenerating the Scottish Highlands after the Second World War
    Frances Robertson
11. Design for the Garden: Questioning Gardening as Environmentalism
    Jette Lykke Jensen
12. Permanence and Magic: Super-Natural Metaphors of Stainless Steel
    Nicolas P. Maffei

Part 4: Design as Ecology

13. Forms of Human Environment (1970): Italian Design Responds to the Global Crisis
    Elena Formia
14. Environmental Design Pedagogy in Leningrad in the 1980s
    Yulia Karpova
15. Throwaway Houses: Garbage Housing and the Politics of Ownership
    Curt Gambetta
16. The Unmaking of Autoprogettazione
    Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti

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