Design and Spirituality: Material Culture for a Wisdom Economy

Stuart Walker is Professor, Head of Design and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster Creative Research Lab at Lancaster University, UK. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Calgary, Canada and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. His practice-based research, which combines writing with propositional artifacts, has been widely published, and his designs have been exhibited in Canada, Italy and at the Design Museum, London. He books include Sustainable by Design (2006) and The Spirit of Design (2011), both published by Earthscan/Taylor and Francis, UK.