Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

Arturo Escobar | March 2018, Duke University Press

In this book, Arturo Escobar – a Colombian-American anthropologist and professor emeritus of Anthropology – presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channelling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.

The author rethinks the entire concept of design. Pluriverse, in fact, is the coexistence of plural meanings and connotations. So, the design should be built within practices situated in plurality: participatory, socially oriented, and open-ended.

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