Themes in this research focus on integrated scales of manufacture:

• Local, regional, national and international
• Implications for product design
  • Materials
  • Processes
  • Localisation (maintenance, repair etc)

Selected publications and presentations in this area include:

Walker, S. Design for Sustainability: Practiced-Based  in objects, environment and meaning, Keynote Address, International Symposium on Sustainable Design (ISSD) September 29^th-30^th 2011, UFPE, Recife, Brazil.

Richards, B., Walker, S., Blair, L. Cyber-Sustainability: leaving a lasting legacy of human wellbeing, Alt-HCI Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 4-8 2011

Walker, S., Experiments in Design for Social Sustainability, Keynote Address: Sustainability Workshop, Cumulus 2010 Conference, Tonji University, Shanghai, China, September 6-10 2010.

Walker, S., Design for Sustainability, Keynote Address: Wuxi University, China, September 10 2010.

Enabling solutions for sustainable living.  Manzini, Ezio; Walker, Stuart; Wylant, Barry (co-editors). Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2008.

Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice.  Walker, Stuart .Earthscan, London, 2006.

Integration of scales : mass-produced plus locally produced parts. Walker, Stuart . in: Design studies: a reader. ed.  Hazel Clark ; David Brody. Oxford : Berg, 2009.

Design PhD Studies in this area: Prof. Walker is one of several faculty members involved in the Design PhD conference – an annual event offered in conjunction with Northumbria University. He is particularly interested in hearing from potential Design PhD candidates with interests that would fall within the broad themes of design for sustainability and/or design and human meaning (values, spirituality etc.), or who have interests in practice-based design research.