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Title
Designs for the Pluriverse Poster
Subject
This poster contains text from: Escobar, A., 2018. Designs for the pluriverse: radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds, New ecologies for the twenty-first century. Duke University Press.
Students created drawings and diagrams to visualize the concepts in the text
Students created drawings and diagrams to visualize the concepts in the text
Description
“Queremos un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.” -- “We want a world where many worlds fit.”
“…what needs to change is an entire way of life and a whole style of world making. It goes deeper than capitalism” (p.ix).
“To nourish design’s potential for the transitions, however, requires a significant reorientation of design from the functionalist, rationalistic, and industrial traditions from which it emerged, and within which it still functions with ease, toward a type of rationality and set of practices attuned to the relational dimension of life. This is why the approach taken is ontological. Design is ontological in that all design-led objects, tools, and even services bring about particular ways of being, knowing and doing” (p.x).
“Might a new breed of designers come to be thought of as transition activists? If this were to be the case, they would have to walk hand in hand with those who are protecting and redefining well-being, life projects, territories, local economies, and communities worldwide “ (p.7).
“Will there still be “modern solutions to modern problems”? Or has modernity’s ability to even imagine the questions that need to be asked to effectively face the contemporary ecological and social crisis been so fatally compromised, given its investment in main- taining the worlds that created it, as to make it historically necessary to look elsewhere, in other-than-modern world-making possibilities?” (p.19).
“To think new thoughts, by implication, requires stepping out of the epistemic space of Western social theory and into the epistemic configurations associated with the multiple relational ontologies of worlds in struggle. It is in these spaces that we might find more compelling answers to the strong questions posed by the current conjuncture of modern problems with insufficient modern solutions” (p.68).
“So today, we must expect to be living this turbulence for a long time, in a double world where two realities live together in conflict: the old “limit- less” world that does not acknowledge the planet’s limits, and another that recognizes these limits and experiments with ways of transforming them into opportunities.... [A] continent is emerging.... It is a transition (long for us, but short for world history) in which we must all learn to live, and live well, on the new islands…” (p.151).
“…what needs to change is an entire way of life and a whole style of world making. It goes deeper than capitalism” (p.ix).
“To nourish design’s potential for the transitions, however, requires a significant reorientation of design from the functionalist, rationalistic, and industrial traditions from which it emerged, and within which it still functions with ease, toward a type of rationality and set of practices attuned to the relational dimension of life. This is why the approach taken is ontological. Design is ontological in that all design-led objects, tools, and even services bring about particular ways of being, knowing and doing” (p.x).
“Might a new breed of designers come to be thought of as transition activists? If this were to be the case, they would have to walk hand in hand with those who are protecting and redefining well-being, life projects, territories, local economies, and communities worldwide “ (p.7).
“Will there still be “modern solutions to modern problems”? Or has modernity’s ability to even imagine the questions that need to be asked to effectively face the contemporary ecological and social crisis been so fatally compromised, given its investment in main- taining the worlds that created it, as to make it historically necessary to look elsewhere, in other-than-modern world-making possibilities?” (p.19).
“To think new thoughts, by implication, requires stepping out of the epistemic space of Western social theory and into the epistemic configurations associated with the multiple relational ontologies of worlds in struggle. It is in these spaces that we might find more compelling answers to the strong questions posed by the current conjuncture of modern problems with insufficient modern solutions” (p.68).
“So today, we must expect to be living this turbulence for a long time, in a double world where two realities live together in conflict: the old “limit- less” world that does not acknowledge the planet’s limits, and another that recognizes these limits and experiments with ways of transforming them into opportunities.... [A] continent is emerging.... It is a transition (long for us, but short for world history) in which we must all learn to live, and live well, on the new islands…” (p.151).