Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

By:

Arturo Escobar

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century

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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 technologies to built environments-currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an "autonomous design" that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design's principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

March 22nd, 2018

Author

Arturo Escobar

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

312

Series

New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century

ISBN-13

9780822371052

Product ID

26797629

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