1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking material culture: the cage of aesthetic convention -- 3. Sustainable development in context: the evolution of a contemporary myth -- 4. Design process and sustainable development a journey in design -- 5. Enduring artefacts and sustainable solutions: object lessons -- 6. Reassessing 'good' design: objects as symbols of beauty -- 7. Design, sustainability and the human spirit: how the other half lives -- 8. Fashion and sustainability: the attraction of opposites -- 9. The application of theory: experiments in sustainable product design -- 10. Tacit knowledge in design: visual myths -- 11. Reframing design for sustainability unmasking the object -- 12. Time and design: crushed before the moth-- 13. Creating objects in a saturated culture: after the endgame -- 14. Ephemeral objects for sustainability: light touch -- 15. Intellectual and aesthetic understandings of design the considered gaze -- 16. Epilogue.