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Sustainability: Designing for a Technological Utopia or Dystopia?

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Sustainability: Designing for a Technological Utopia or Dystopia? / Stead, Michael.
Flourish By Design. ed. / Nick Dunn; Leon Cruickshank; Gemma Coupe. London: Routledge, 2023.

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Stead M. Sustainability: Designing for a Technological Utopia or Dystopia? In Dunn N, Cruickshank L, Coupe G, editors, Flourish By Design. London: Routledge. 2023

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Stead, Michael. / Sustainability : Designing for a Technological Utopia or Dystopia?. Flourish By Design. editor / Nick Dunn ; Leon Cruickshank ; Gemma Coupe. London : Routledge, 2023.

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