Professor Stuart Walker
Research Professor
Research
Books
Walker, S., 2021. 'Design and Spirituality A Philosophy of Material Cultures', Routledge.
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Journal Articles
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).
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', The 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. '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.
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Zhan, X., Walker, S., 2018. 'Value Direction: Moving Crafts toward Sustainability in the Yangtze River Delta, China', Sustainability, 10 (4), pp. 1252-1252.
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', The 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', The 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', The Design Journal, 12 (1), pp. 25-39.
Walker, S., 2000. 'How the Other Half Lives: Product Design, Sustainability, and the Human Spirit', Design Issues, 16 (1), pp. 52-58.
Conference Papers
Gumus Ciftci, H., 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 The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), pp. S2991-S3004.
Walker, S., 2006. 'Extant Design: designing things as they are', RAVAGE OF THE PLANET 2006, Bariloche, ARGENTINA, 12/12/2006 - 14/12/2006, in WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 99, 99, pp. 361-370.
Marchand, A., Walker, S., 2006. '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.
Marchand, A., Walker, S., De Coninck, P., 2006. 'The role of beauty for sustainability: a discussion on responsible consumption, aesthetics attitudes and product design', RAVAGE OF THE PLANET 2006, Bariloche, ARGENTINA, 12/12/2006 - 14/12/2006, in WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 99, 99, pp. 371-+.
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., 2004. '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., 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.