We Will Survive [electronic resource].

MUDAC (Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts Lausanne) Les presses du réel 2024

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A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”. Do you believe that energy independence, sustainable farming, food autonomy, a self-reliant lifestyle, local networks and a culture of mutual support and altruism are vital to a future worth living? If so, you are, at least in part, a prepper. Preppers are convinced that our world is doomed. They believe in the imminent and inevitable collapse of all our systems and, consequently, of society itself. However, instead of allowing fear to paralyze them, they adopt a coping strategy that restores their sense of control over the uncontrollable: they actively prepare for how to survive the collapse and how to build a new world order afterwards. We Will Survive brings together the views of theorists, researchers, designers and preppers. The book explores the diverse mindsets and wide-ranging lifestyles of the prepper movement which was once considered marginal, but has now become a cultural phenomenon around the globe.
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Architectural criticism
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Geopolitics
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Anniina Koivu
Jolanthe Kugler
Noam Toran
Yassine Salihine
Andrea Alberto Dutto
Patrick J. Gyger
Eva Horn
Luisa Ferreira
Silvia Berger Ziauddin
Rebecca Solnit
Marie Taillan
Hélène Cohen
Francis Guévremont
Chrisoula Petridis
Nolwenn Chauvin
Sally McGrane
Robert Owens
Virginie Vernevaut
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