"Design for the Real World has been translated into 23 languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world's most widely read book on design and a required text in many design and architectural schools. This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a blueprint for survival in the resource-deficient Nineties.

"Victor Papanek's lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from 'fetish objects for a wasteful society' towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1991]

"Using lichen as an organic, self-mending paint for walls (shades of natural nanotechnology): This is just one of the many ideas -- at once practical and creative -- in this remarkable and absolutely essential book. Many of the designs cater to disadvantaged or disabled or underpriviledged peoples. All of the designs are intended to be ultimately ecological. A real inspirational turn-on. It will change the way you think." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Should be required reading.
Most highly recommended.