Acting in Dark Times: The Urgency of the Possible

by Clive Dilnot

Book Overview

In recent decades, the field of design has expanded. Moreover, there has been a significant historical shift to a world essentially defined by artifice. The onset of the Anthropocene - the epoch in which human impact upon our planet has become irreversible - is the most dramatic symptom of this phenomenon.

In these conditions, we are forced to consider the extent to which design should be understood less as a subaltern moment of action, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135007019X
• ISBN13: 9781350070196
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 160 Pages