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

Main entry:

Escobar, Arturo, 1951- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2018.
©2017

Description:

xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

New ecologies for the twenty-first century

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-280) and index.
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 the cultural studies of design -- The Ontological Reorientation of Design. In the background of our culture : rationalism, ontological dualism, and relationality -- An outline of ontological design -- Designs for the Pluriverse. Design for transitions -- Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal.

Summary:

"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" --Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780822370901 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0822370905 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780822371052 (paperback alkaline paper)
0822371057 (paperback alkaline paper)
(ebook)
9780822371816

Subject:

Design Anthropological aspects.
Design Environmental aspects.
Design Human factors.
Design Social aspects.
Industrial design Social aspects.
Design Aspect anthropologique.
Design Aspect de l'environnement.
Design Facteurs humains.
Design Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
DESIGN.
Art and Design.
Autonomie
Design
Entkolonialisierung
Kooperation
Nachhaltigkeit
Soziale Verantwortung
Soziokultureller Wandel
Umweltverträglichkeit

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New ecologies for the twenty-first century.

Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308968
Call No.: BIB 254282
Status: Available

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