Designing a difference

Designing a difference
Social sustainability in cyprus

Sustainability is about survival. But if to sustain is to survive, then survival requires that class, racial and gender differences, as well as spatial and perceptual distances, are overcome by good will and good design. Social sustainability extends the essence of sustainable design combines design of the physical realm with design of the social world in order to create successful places that promote well-being by understanding what people need from the places where they live and work. This book is a compilation of student design projects that aim to address sustainability beyond its conventional environmental component and push the boundaries of it means for communities to thrive as part of the great infinity of civilization.

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Edited by Petros Lapithis, Melissa Hekkers, Anna Papadopoulou, Nicosia, Cyprus