Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
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The notion of a green economy corroborated critics’ view that what is to be sustained with sustainable development, more than the environment or nature, is a particular capitalistic model of the economy and an entire dualist ontology.
The Stack is the new nomos, or political geography of the Earth.
A persuasive framework for the digital that has ontological implications is being developed by Benjamin Bratton in San Diego. Bratton’s (2014) concern with the geopolitics of planetary-scale computation leads him to posit the existence of an “accidental megastructure,” the Stack.
to make us aware, before I go on to discuss contemporary design in some detail, of the complex entanglement of science, materials, technologies, capitalism, and culture that makes up the matrix of modern design. My second goal, more pertinently for now, is to highlight the social and cultural histories of the body that surround all design, the fact
... See morePallasmaa draws substantial implications from this situation, including the loss of our ability to truly imagine alternative worlds.
materialist phenomenology of the traditional house, from the woods, ceramic, and paper
Vernacular forms of design may be particularly relevant when used in design projects intended to strengthen communal autonomy and resilience.
“Are ‘smart devices’ really smart, or are they rather making people more stupid?”
Since the inception of the sustainability movement in 1987 with the publication of the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, where the term sustainable development was first defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and
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