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Designs for the Pluriverse
- Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
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 aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches.
Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.
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- a lisa
- 09-07-24
interesting
great book, very interesting information. it uses, in my opinion, slightly unnecessary intellectualised vocabulary, but, otherwise, quite nice. good topic, interesting arguments, a very useful book.
good performance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-04-24
An introduction to the pluriverse
This book provided a comprehensive introduction to the floor reverse. I most appreciated it's connections to indigenous cultures and ways of knowing.
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- Liam Doyle
- 14-09-24
good content poorly delivered
The useful content of this book is hard to take in with such poor voice work/delivery from the narrator. There are odd pauses, strange moments of emphasis and an altogether strange meter.
I had to stop listing to the book as it was that frustrating. it is as if the voice actor was either a) edited poorly, b) lacking in any practice or c) it was a poor machine generated mimic of the reader.
go and read the paper version.
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