Design, nature, and revolution : toward a critical ecology / Tomás Maldonado ; translated by Mario Domandi ; foreword by Larry Busbea.

Main entry:

Maldonado, Tomás, author.

Title & Author:

Design, nature, and revolution : toward a critical ecology / Tomás Maldonado ; translated by Mario Domandi ; foreword by Larry Busbea.

Edition:

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xix, 139 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
"First published in Italian under the title La Speranza Progettuale."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Environment, nature, alienation -- 2. Human ecology and dialectic of the concrete -- 3. Rationality and repression -- 4. New Utopians -- 5. Design, panning and politics -- 6. Explosive congestion -- 7. Discards, residues, dross -- 8. Desperate hope -- 9. Reality of Mesocosmos -- 10. Labyrinth of complexity -- 11. Deurbanization and desocialization -- 12. The idea of system -- 13 Revolution and strategy of innovation -- 14. Spontaneous action and power -- 15. Las Vegas and the semiological abuse -- 16. Toward a praxiology of design.
Reproduction of (manifestation): Maldonado, Tomás Design, nature, and revolution New York, Harper & Row, 1972 xi, 139 p. 21 cm. (DLC) 72156536

Summary:

What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what “design” might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to ecological crisis. Written as a kind of obituary to the Modern movement’s wave of failed “concrete utopias,” Maldonado combines philosophy, sociology, radical countercultural thought, and the ecological sciences into a polemic that recenters design in the human environment.

ISBN:

9781517907006 paperback alkaline paper
1517907004 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Human ecology.
Environmental policy.
Planning.
Écologie humaine.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale.
Planification.
human ecology.
environmental policy.

Added entries:

Domandi, Mario, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304863
Call No.: BIB 250610
Status: Available

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