Escobar Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7181-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Escobar, Arturo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Allgemeines & Theorie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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