Designs for the pluriverse : radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds /
Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds
Arturo Escobar.
- xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Design for the Real World but Which "World'? What "design"? What "real"?. Out of the studio and into the flow of socio-natural life -- Elements for the cultural studies of design -- The Ontological Reorientation of Design. In the background of our culture : rationalism, ontological dualism, and relationality -- An outline of ontological design -- Designs for the Pluriverse. Design for transitions -- Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal
"Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls 'autonomous design'--a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth"--Publisher description