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