Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

by Arturo Escobar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822371057
• ISBN13: 9780822371052
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"