Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2022

Design Commons

Practices, Processes and Crossovers

  • Fills the scientific gap in theorizing the social conditions of design
  • Recommends solutions in the face of the conflicts between commoning and design
  • Defines operative theories, concepts and frameworks that impact design thinking

Part of the book series: Design Research Foundations (DERF)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. An Introduction to Design Commons

    • Gerhard Bruyns, Stavros Kousoulas
    Pages 1-16
  3. Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
    2. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach

      • Dora Karadima
      Pages 223-238
    3. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care

      • Lőrinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia
      Pages 259-276
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 277-288

About this book

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • The School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Gerhard Bruyns

  • Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

    Stavros Kousoulas

About the editors

Dr. Gerhard Bruyns is an architect and urbanist. He is Associate Professor, School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research deals with aspects of spatial morphology and its impact on both the formal expression of the city and the societal conditions that are compressed into the urban landscapes of Asia. He has published on design strategies, spatial commoning, and geopolitical issues linked to spatial practices and urban morphology.

Dr. Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory in the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He has studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d’ Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He has published and lectured in Europe and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal since 2014. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Design Commons

  • Book Subtitle: Practices, Processes and Crossovers

  • Editors: Gerhard Bruyns, Stavros Kousoulas

  • Series Title: Design Research Foundations

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95057-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95056-9Published: 18 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95059-0Published: 19 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95057-6Published: 17 May 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2366-4622

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-4630

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Design, general, Arts, Ecology, Engineering Design

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access