Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds

Escobar, Arturo

Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds - Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. - xxi, 290p., note., ref. ind., 23 cm X 15 cm - New ecologies for the twenty-first century .

Recommended by: Jaya Deshmukh

Content:

Introduction
I. Design for the real world: but which "world"? What "design"? What "real"? Out of the studio and into the flow of socionatural life
Elements for a cultural studies of design
II. The ontological reorientation of design. In the background of our culture: rationalism, ontological dualism, and relationality
An outline of ontological design
III. Designs for the pluriverse. Design for transitions
Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal

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--design--anthropological aspects--environmental aspects--human factors--social aspects

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