Book (Practical) Multi-Dimensional Design / Arturo Escobar / Daijiro Mizuno

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[Introduction to Contents]
How to re-examine the problems caused by design and transform through design?
The long-awaited translation of the 『 Designs for the Pluriverse 』 by anthropologist Arturo Escobar who redefines and reorients design toward the transition to a sustainable multi-world.
This book explores ways to create multiple futures rooted in place instead of a single future of modern Western capitalism, focusing on design and anthropology, and crossing various fields such as development science, philosophy, ecology, Latin American research, feminism theory, Buddhism, and music.
This book is one of the must-read books in many design schools around the world.
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Contents
Introduction
Part I Design for the Real World
Chapter 1 Elements for Cultural Studies of Design
Chapter 2 Ontological Reorientation of Design
Chapter 3 Background of Our Culture : Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, Relations
Chapter 3 Ontological Reorientation of Design
Chapter 3 Background of Our Culture : Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, Relations
Chapter 4 Overview of Ontological Design
Part 3 Design for the Multi-World
Chapter 5 Design for the Transition
Chapter 6 Autonomy? Autonomous Design and Politics of Relations
Sources and references
Index
Author history
Anthropologist born in Colombia in 1952.
Professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anthropologist born in Colombia.