Professor Stuart Walker

Research

Books

Walker, S., 2026. 'Design for Life', Routledge.

Walker, S., 2026. 'Designing Sustainability', Routledge.

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.

Abulawi, R., Walker, S., Boyko, C., 2019. 'Healing by Design'. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, pp. 427-438, Springer Singapore.

Walker, S., 2019. 'Spirituality and design'. In The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions, pp. 332-344, Routledge.

Jung, J., Walker, S., 2018. 'Creative Ecologies'. In, pp. 11-24, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Walker, S., 2018. 'Culturally Significant Artifacts and their Relationship to Tradition and Sustainability'. In, pp. 39-50, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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.

Walker, S., 2017. 'The object of nightingales'. In Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design, pp. 53-68, Routledge.

Journal Articles

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

Changede, S., Thomas, L., Walker, S., 2022. 'Design for Sustainability - Learning from Traditional Indian Products and Practices', Journal of Visual Art and Design, 14 (1), pp. 15-27.

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), pp. 95-111.

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., 2019. 'Traditional Knowledge, Sustainability and the Potential Role of Epigenetics', American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research, 6 (3), pp. 202-204.

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.

Cooper, R., Dunn, N., Coulton, P., Walker, S., Rodgers, P., Cruikshank, L., Tsekleves, E., Hands, D., Whitham, R., Boyko, C.T., Richards, D., Aryana, B., Pollastri, S., Lujan Escalante, M.A., Knowles, B., Lopez-Galviz, C., Cureton, P., Coulton, C., 2018. 'ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse', She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 4 (4), pp. 307-341.

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.

Thomas, L., Walker, S., Blair, L., 2016. 'Beyond the technological blindfold: a fundamental design research approach to sustainability', Global Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences.

Walker, S., 2016. 'Concerns about Quantifying Design Research Quality by Stuart Walker. Reply by Gerda Gemser and Cees de Bont.', She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 2 (2), pp. 176-178.

Walker, S., 2014. 'A narrowing of meaning: loss of narrative unity and the nature of design change', International Journal of Sustainable Design, 2 (4), pp. 283-283.

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 narrow door to sustainability - from practically useful to spiritually useful artefacts', International Journal of Sustainable Design, 2 (1), pp. 83-83.

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

Walker, S., 2011. 'Form beyond function: practice-based research in objects, environment and meaning', International Journal of Sustainable Design, 1 (4), pp. 335-335.

Marchand, A., Walker, S., Cooper, T., 2010. 'Beyond Abundance: Self-Interest Motives for Sustainable Consumption in Relation to Product Perception and Preferences', Sustainability, 2 (5), pp. 1431-1447.

Walker, S., 2010. 'Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects', Design and Culture, 2 (1), pp. 45-62.

Walker, S., 2010. 'Temporal Objects--Design, Change and Sustainability', Sustainability, 2 (3), pp. 812-832.

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., 2009. 'The spirit of design: notes from the shakuhachi flute', International Journal of Sustainable Design, 1 (2), pp. 130-130.

Walker, S., 2008. 'Following Will-O'-The-Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Design-Centred Research, Sustainability and the Bottom Line', The Design Journal, 11 (1), pp. 51-64.

Dogan, C., Walker, S., 2008. 'Localisation and the design and production of sustainable products', International Journal of Product Development, 6 (3/4), pp. 276-276.

Walker, S., 2007. 'Cack-Handed Design Design-Centred Approaches to Process and Product for Sustainability', The Design Journal, 10 (3), pp. 28-40.

Marchand, A., De Coninck, P., Walker, S., 2006. 'La consommation responsable', Nouvelles pratiques sociales, 18 (1), pp. 39-56.

Walker, S., 2005. 'After the End - Game: Creating Objects in a Saturated Culture', The Design Journal, 8 (1), pp. 3-13.

Walker, S., 2003. 'Light Touch - The Design of Ephemeral Objects for Sustainability', The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, 3 (3-4), pp. 187-198.

Dogan, C., Walker, S., 2003. 'The Best of Both: A Study of the Feasibility of Integrating Scales of Design and Production for Sustainable Products', The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, 3 (3-4), pp. 135-147.

Walker, S., 2003. 'Visual Myths Creating Intuitive Impressions of Design Sources and Meanings', The Design Journal, 6 (3), pp. 46-55.

Walker, S., 2002. 'The Cage of Aesthetic Convention Stasis in industrial design and the necessity of the avant-garde', The Design Journal, 5 (2), pp. 3-7.

Walker, S., 2001. 'Beyond Aesthetics Identity, Religion and Design', The Design Journal, 4 (2), pp. 30-41.

Walker, S., Dorsa, E., 2001. 'Making design work - Sustainability, Product Design and Social Equity', The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, 1 (1), pp. 41-48.

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

Walker, S., 1999. 'The Manifestation of Meaning. A Discussion of the Environmental, Social and Spiritual Aspects of Product Design', The Design Journal, 2 (2), pp. 2-9.

Walker, S., 1996. 'The meeting place: Qualitative aspects of product environmental assessment', International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 6 (2), pp. 151-171.

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.

Knowles, B., Blair, L., Walker, S., Coulton, P., Thomas, L., Mullagh, L., 2014. 'Patterns of persuasion for sustainability', in Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Processes Practices Methods and Techniques DIS, pp. 1035-1044.

Knowles, B., Blair, L., Hazas, M., Walker, S., 2013. 'Exploring sustainability research in computing', UbiComp '13: The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing, pp. 305-314.

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.

Fairburn, S., Walker, S., 2001. ''Sleeping With the Stars' - The Design of a Personal Crew Quarter for the International Space Station', 31st International Conference On Environmental Systems, 9/7/2001, in SAE Technical Paper Series, 1.

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.