John Wood

Design for Micro-Utopias

Making the Unthinkable Possible

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Produktbeschreibung

Design for Micro-Utopias does not advocate a serious quest for a single, monolithic Utopia. Rather, it invites readers to embrace a more tentative, temporary, pluralized and truncated version of Thomas More's famous 1516 novel of the same name. It therefore encourages the proliferation of many 'micro-utopias' rather than one 'Utopia'. This requires a less critical, negative and rational approach. Referencing a wide range of philosophical thinking from Aristotle to the present day, western and eastern spiritual ideals, and scientific, biological and systems theory, John Wood offers remedies for our excessively individualistic, mechanistic and disconnected thinking, and asks whether a metadesign approach might bring about a new mode of governance. This is a daring idea. Ultimately, he reminds us that, if we believe that miracles are impossible, we make them even less attainable. The first step is to make them 'thinkable'.

Produktdetails

• Design for Social Responsibility
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781138252424
• ISBN-10: 1138252425
• Artikelnr.: 57052320

Autorenporträt

John Wood is Professor of Design and Coordinator of the MA Design Futures programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published many papers and articles on ethics and design and edited 'The Virtual Embodied' (Routledge, 1998). He is also co-founder of the Attainable Utopias network.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Our dysfunctional world
The rise of solipsism
Bureaucracy
Academic rigour
Writing the design
Clocks beyond number
Thinking beyond the possible
Synergy
Metadesign
Towards an ethics of flow
Index.