Alastair Fuad-Luke is engaged in an on-going conversation about ‘slow design’: design to slow human, economic and resource use metabolisms in order to re-balance individual, socio-cultural and environmental well-being. Currently, he is an itinerant sustainable design lecturer, writer and designer-maker delivering lectures, workshops and talks in UK and overseas.
With experience across sustainable design, environmental consultancy/soil bio-engineering, and the media/publishing industry, he sees a new emerging role for designers in the sustainability debate – as facilitators and enablers. He believes the pluralism of slow design generates a plethora of fresh creative challenges. This pluralism is illustrated on his web site, SLow, where the principles, theory and practice of slow design is discussed. He is collaborating with Carolyn F Strauss of SlowLab to develop slow design teaching materials.
As author of The Eco-design Handbook he has a global perspective on best practice eco-design and Design for Sustainability.
