Arturo Escobar

Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls â autonomous designâ â a design practice aimed at channeling designâ s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.

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Produktdetails

• New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371052
• ISBN-10: 0822371057
• Artikelnr.: 48094464

Autorenporträt

Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
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  25
2. Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design  49
II. The Ontological Reorientation of Design
3. In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and
Relationality  79
4. An Outline of Ontological Design  105
III. Designs for the Pluriverse
5. Design for Transitions  137
6. Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal 
165
Conclusion  202
Notes  229
References  259
Index  281