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Designs for the Pluriverse : Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822371816
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 745.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Design for the Real World: But Which "World"? What "Design"? What "Real"? -- 1. Out of the Studio and into the Flow of Socionatural Life -- 2. Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design -- II: The Ontological Reorientation of Design -- 3. In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and Relationality -- 4. An Outline of Ontological Design -- III: Designs for the Pluriverse -- 5. Design for Transitions -- 6. Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Design for the Real World: But Which "World"? What "Design"? What "Real"? -- 1. Out of the Studio and into the Flow of Socionatural Life -- 2. Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design -- II: The Ontological Reorientation of Design -- 3. In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and Relationality -- 4. An Outline of Ontological Design -- III: Designs for the Pluriverse -- 5. Design for Transitions -- 6. Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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