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Designs for the pluriverse : radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds / Arturo Escobar.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780822371816
- ISBN: 0822371812
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 290 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Design for the real world, but which 'world'?, what 'design'?, what 'real'? -- Out of the studio and into the flow of socio-natural life -- Elements for the cultural studies of design -- The ontological reorientation of design -- In the background of our culture: rationalism, ontological dualism, and relationality -- Outline of ontological design -- Designs for the pluriverse -- Design for transitions -- Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Design > Anthropological aspects. Design > Environmental aspects. Design > Human factors. Design > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
