PETA’s Compassionate Designer 2023, Chloe Bullock, calls on a 30-year career in sustainable design – specialising in vegan design and the circular economy – to demonstrate how the sustainable interior design of buildings, interiors and products can lessen the industry’s impact on people, planet and animals.
Written to help designers and their clients find an approach that fits their values and ethics, this handbook is ideal for interior designers at any stage of their career. And helps them to define and examine interior design’s impact as an industry.
Bullock introduces her readers to eleven inspirational approaches which each can be set as a project goal, demonstrated in an exciting range of responsible and innovative spaces, products, materials and supply chains. Packed with innovative examples from around the world, alongside crucial guidance on the benefits of designing sustainably and regeneratively. There’s information on how sustainable design contributes to health and wellbeing, promotes ecology and embraces the circular economy – all backed up by authoritative best practice guidance.
Spanning from Seattle to Byron Bay it features 40 inspirational projects, including:
- Kitchens that can be easily dismantled and taken with you when you move home – your kitchen is one of the
- highest value purchases you buy for your home – yet we leave them behind when we move
- A circular economy building that can be dismantled and relocated multiple times
- Beautiful furnishings you can borrow only for the time you need them
- Projects that are self-sustaining and consciously aware of their impacts on people, planet and animals
- Regenerative designs that revive culture and nature
- Non-toxic alternatives to out-moded and cruelly produced animal products
- Technology that ensures a true, transparent Fair Trade in our supply chains
- Beautiful finishes made from demolition waste
- Spaces that reconnect us to nature and promote health
Published by RIBA on 1st May 2024.
Pre order at: www.ribabooks.com