Professor Stuart Walker

Research

Books

Walker, S., 2021. 'Design and Spirituality A Philosophy of Material Cultures', Routledge.

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.

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.