Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning

Stuart Walker is Co-Director of the ImaginationLancaster creative research lab at Lancaster University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. Formerly, he was Associate Dean at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada where he retains an affiliation. His research papers have been published and presented internationally and his conceptual designs have been exhibited at the Design Museum, London, across Canada, in Rome and, most recently, at the Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. His book, Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice is published by Earthscan, London, and Enabling Solutions, co-authored with Ezio Manzini and Barry Wylant is published by the University of Calgary Press.