About Environmental Design

By Wyatt Galt, 22 Feb 20:33

Environmental design is the process and mindset of addressing environmental parameters, concerns and impacts, when creating plans, develop projects, programs, policies, and/or products.

Frank Lloyd Wright may environmental desing a priority long before the term was coined.

Environmental Design has been defined:
“We live in the world by design. Creating the everyday environment in which we live involves complex systems of cultural meaning, visual communication and the use of tools, technology and materials. As a field of study, Environmental Design encompasses the built, natural, and human environments and focuses on fashioning physical and social interventions informed by human behavior and environmental processes. Design asks us to find answers to the most fundamental of human questions: how should we live in the world and what should inform our actions? This complex endeavor requires an interdisciplinary approach.” -wikipedia

I think the above definition needs some work…

This discipline includes but is not limited to the following vocations:
architects
acoustical scientists
engineers
environmental scientists
landscape architects
urban planning
interior designers
lighting designers
exhibition designers
historic preservations
lighting specialists
designers
artists
hydrologists
oceanographers
marine biologists
industrial designers

“From the middle of the twentieth century, thinkers like Buckminster Fuller have acted as catalysts for a broadening and deepening of the concerns of environmental designers. Nowadays, energy efficiency, appropriate technology, organic horticulture or organic agriculture, land restoration, community design, and ecologically sustainable energy and waste systems are recognized considerations or options and may each find application.” -wikipedia

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