ISBN:
9781517907006
,
1517907004
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 139 pages ;
,
21 cm
Edition:
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Uniform Title:
Speranza progettuale.
Parallel Title:
Reproduction of (manifestation): Maldonado, Tomás Design, nature, and revolution
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human ecology.
;
Environmental policy.
;
Planning.
;
Environmental policy.
;
Human ecology.
;
Planning.
Abstract:
What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what "design" might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to ecological crisis. Written as a kind of obituary to the Modern movement's wave of failed "concrete utopias," Maldonado combines philosophy, sociology, radical countercultural thought, and the ecological sciences into a polemic that recenters design in the human environment.
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Environment, nature, alienation -- 2. Human ecology and dialectic of the concrete -- 3. Rationality and repression -- 4. New Utopians -- 5. Design, panning and politics -- 6. Explosive congestion -- 7. Discards, residues, dross -- 8. Desperate hope -- 9. Reality of Mesocosmos -- 10. Labyrinth of complexity -- 11. Deurbanization and desocialization -- 12. The idea of system -- 13 Revolution and strategy of innovation -- 14. Spontaneous action and power -- 15. Las Vegas and the semiological abuse -- 16. Toward a praxiology of design.
Note:
"First published in Italian under the title La Speranza Progettuale."
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