Designs for the pluriverse : radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds / Arturo Escobar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escobar, Arturo, 1951- author.

Series:

New ecologies for the twenty-first century.

New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Anthropological aspects.

Design.

Design--Environmental aspects.

Design--Human factors.

Design--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina ; London, England : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

Pt 1. Design for the real world, but which 'world'?, what 'design'?, what 'real'?

Chapter 1: Out of the studio and into the flow of socio-natural life

Chapter 2: Elements for the cultural studies of design

Pt 2. The ontological reorientation of design

Chapter 3: In the background of our culture: rationalism, ontological dualism, and relationality

Chapter 4: An outline of ontological design

Pt. 3: Designs for the pluriverse

Chapter 5: Design for transitions

Chapter 6: Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes notes, bibliography (p. 259-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780822371816

9780822371052

9780822370901

0822371812

OCLC:

1015243964