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

"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 tec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Escobar, Arturo, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.