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Defuturing - A New Design Philosophy (Paperback)
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Defuturing - A New Design Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Radical Thinkers in Design
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"Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the
negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history
and making of the material world - including design - dramatically
changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new
philosophy of design." With these thoughts this book presents a
radically new understanding of the history, context and futures of
designing. First published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface
by the author, Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy is a prescient
and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in
world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human
others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this
process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable,
but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of
acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the
world, Defuturing transforms our comprehension of designing and of
how futures can be constituted. Working not through abstract
theorizing but through the analysis of concrete examples, the book
uses historical material on design to expose the archaeology of
defuturing. Shattering the illusion that the future simply "is",
Defuturing confronts designing with the challenge of remaking while
offering the elements of a new practical reasoning of design
acting.
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