Professor Stuart Walker

Research

Books

Walker, S., 2023. 'Design for Resilience: making the future we leave behind', MIT Press.

Walker, S., 2020. 'Design and Spirituality A Philosophy of Material Cultures', Routledge.

Walker, S., Evans, M., Cassidy, T., Holroyd, A.T., Jung, J., 2018. 'Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices', Bloomsbury Publishing.

Walker, S., Evans, M., 2018. 'Editorial Introduction'.

Book Chapters

Zhang, W., Walker, S., Evans, M., Humphreys, P., 2023. ''The Located Making Framework' for Sustainable Enterprise'. In Zsolnai, L., Walker, T., Shrivastava, P. (eds.) Value Creation for a Sustainable World: Innovating for Ecological Regeneration and Human Flourishing, pp. 153-186, Palgrave Macmillan.

Evans, M., Holroyd, A.T., Walker, S., Cassidy, T., Jung, J., 2018. 'Strategies for Revitalization of Culturally Significant Designs, Products, and Practices'. In Design Roots: Culturally Significant Designs, Products, and Practices, pp. 341-359.

Journal Articles

Walker, S., 2023. 'Design is ... Lost', The Design Journal, 26 (1), pp. 4-6.

Walker, S., Evans, M., Zhang, W., Humphreys, P., 2022. 'The located making framework for supporting craft maker enterprises in China', The Design Journal, 25 (6), pp. 976-996.

Zhang, W., Walker, S., Evans, M., Bennett, J., 2021. 'Inheritors of the Yellow River: The relationship of heritage making practices to cultural self-confidence in China', International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 5 (1).

Chudasri, D., Walker, S., Evans, M., 2020. 'Potential areas for design and its implementation to enable the future viability of weaving practices in Northern Thailand', International Journal of Design, 14 (1), 17.

Walker, S., 2019. 'Another Reality: the creative gift and the spiritual sense', JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, 44 (1), pp. 5-11.

Zhan, X., Walker, S., 2019. 'Craft as Leverage for Sustainable Design Transformation: A Theoretical Foundation', DESIGN JOURNAL, 22 (4), pp. 483-503.

Walker, S., Mullagh, L., Evans, M., Wang, Y., 2019. 'Design ecologies: Sustaining ethno-cultural significance of products through urban ecologies of creative practice', International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 3 (1), pp. 1-33.

Mullagh, L., Walker, S., Evans, M., 2019. 'Living Design. The future of sustainable maker enterprises', The Design Journal, 22 (sup1), pp. 849-862.

Mullagh, L., Walker, S., Evans, M., 2019. 'Located Making: Design for Sustainability in Small Maker Enterprises (Fabricación in situ: diseño para la sustentabilidad en pequeñas empresas fabricantes)', RChD: creación y pensamiento, 4 (7), pp. 1-14.

Walker, S., Evans, M., Mullagh, L., 2019. 'Meaningful practices: The contemporary relevance of traditional making for sustainable material futures', Craft Research, 10 (2), pp. 183-210.

Walker, S., Evans, M., Mullagh, L., 2019. 'Traditional Maker Practices and Sustainable Futures. The implications of expertise', The Design Journal, 22 (sup1), pp. 835-848.

Zhan, X., Walker, S., 2018. 'Value Direction: Moving Crafts toward Sustainability in the Yangtze River Delta, China', SUSTAINABILITY, 10 (4), 20.

Zhan, X., Walker, S., Hernandez-Pardo, R., Evans, M., 2017. 'Craft and Sustainability: Potential for Design Intervention in Crafts in the Yangtze River Delta, China', The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), pp. S2919-S2934.

Twigger Holroyd, A., Cassidy, T., Evans, M., Walker, S., 2017. 'Wrestling with Tradition: Revitalizing the Orkney Chair and Other Culturally Significant Crafts', Design and Culture, 9 (3), pp. 283-299.

Walker, S., 2013. 'Design and Spirituality: Material Culture for a Wisdom Economy', DESIGN ISSUES, 29 (3), pp. 89-107.

Walker, S., 2012. 'Design on a Darkling Plain: Transcending Utility through Questions in Form', DESIGN JOURNAL, 15 (3), pp. 347-371.

Walker, S., 2012. 'The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful Material Culture', DESIGN AND CULTURE, 4 (2), pp. 149-170.

Walker, S., 2010. 'The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the Post-consumerism Object', DESIGN JOURNAL, 13 (1), pp. 9-30.

Walker, S., 2010. 'Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning', DESIGN ISSUES, 26 (4), pp. 94-108.

Walker, S., 2009. 'After Taste - The Power and Prejudice of Product Appearance', DESIGN JOURNAL, 12 (1), pp. 25-39.

Walker, S., 2000. 'How the other half lives: Product design, sustainability, and the human spirit (Industrial design)', DESIGN ISSUES, 16 (1), pp. 52-58.

Conference Papers

Ciftci, H.G., Walker, S., 2017. 'Design for Grassroots Production in Eastern Turkey through the Revival of Traditional Handicrafts', 12th International Conference of the European-Academy-of-Design (EAD), Sapienza Univ Rome, Fac Architecture, Rome, ITALY, 12/4/2017 - 14/4/2017, in DESIGN JOURNAL, 20, pp. S2991-S3004.

Marchand, A., Walker, S., 2008. 'Product development and responsible consumption: designing alternatives for sustainable lifestyles', 6th Workshop on Governance and Practice of Change of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Copenhagen, DENMARK, 4/2006, in JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 16 (11), pp. 1163-1169.

Walker, S., 2007. 'Extant Design: designing things as they are', 1st International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, Bariloche, ARGENTINA, 12/12/2006 - 14/12/2006, in Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, 99, pp. 361-370.

Marchand, A., Walker, S., De Coninck, P., 2007. 'The role of beauty for sustainability: a discussion on responsible consumption, aesthetics attitudes and product design', 1st International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, Bariloche, ARGENTINA, 12/12/2006 - 14/12/2006, in MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL HAZARDS, 99, pp. 371-+.

Walker, S., 2006. 'Object lessons: Enduring artifacts and sustainable solutions', 3rd International Conference on Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development, Loughborough Univ, Loughborough, ENGLAND, 1/9/2004 - 2/9/2004, in DESIGN ISSUES, 22 (1), pp. 20-31.

Walker, S., 2004. 'Object lessons - enduring artefacts and sustainable solutions', 3rd International Conference on Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development, Loughborough Univ, Loughborough, ENGLAND, 1/9/2004 - 2/9/2004, in DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2004, pp. 3-22.

Walker, S., 1999. '"A shattered visage lies" - Sustainable design and local scale production', 1st International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 99), TOKYO, JAPAN, 1/2/1999 - 3/2/1999, in FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS DEGIGN AND INVERSE MANUFACTURING, PROCEEDINGS, pp. 68-70.