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What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment (Paperback)
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What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment (Paperback)
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The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of
politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.
Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and
material entities that make humans act. The book examines
cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the
modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience
- a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from
outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in
an active process of manipulating and reworking nature 'from
within.' To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to
redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of
our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of
nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature
is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human
activities? How can we foster designers' own force and make present
what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers
make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities
with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and
forces? How do they redefine political order by bringing together
stars, prions and people? In effect, how should we understand
design practice in its relation to the material and the living
world? In this volume, anthropologists, science studies scholars,
political scientists and sociologists rethink together the meaning
of cosmopolitics for design. At the same time designers, architects
and artists engage with the cosmopolitical question in trying to
imagine the future of architectural and urban design. The book
contains original empirical chapters and a number of revealing
interviews with artists and designers whose practices set examples
of 'cosmopolitically correct design'.
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