(4.3) The book: Tools for the Design Revolution. Design Knowledge for the Future.

How can you determine the climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions of an espresso machine using a hammer, a screwdriver and a kitchen scale? Switching between activist demands and subtle humor, Tools for the Design Revolution illustrates the role design can play in formulating a sustainable society based on global solidarity. Many barely noticed everyday objects have a massive impact on the environment.

The book illustrates this clearly and presents practical tools that designers, businesses and consumers alike can use as basic equipment for a reflected life. These promote informed design, development and consumption of design that breaks away from traditional subject-specific ideas. The design knowledge for the future comes out of learning from and with each other through experimental strategies and models of thinking in conjunction with scientifically based methods. It opens up spaces of thought and action for change and imparts practical knowledge to design a different future.

Follow-up project of the exhibition Tools for the Design Revolution initiated by IDRV in cooperation with designaustria, 2012

The presentation of the Tools for the design Revolution book took place on May 22 as part of the mobile urban laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the Vienna University of Technology in Resselpark on Vienna's Karlsplatz.