Medium design : knowing how to work on the world / Keller Easterling.

Main entry:

Easterling, Keller, 1959- author.

Title & Author:

Medium design : knowing how to work on the world / Keller Easterling.

Publication:

London : Verso, 2021.

Description:

xi, 157 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Interlude one -- You know more than you can tell -- Interlude two -- Things should not always work -- Interlude three -- Smart can be dumb -- Interlude four -- Problems can be assets -- Interlude five -- Some violence does not happen -- Afterword: You know how to be unreasonable.

Summary:

"How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world's unresponsive or intractable dilemmas - from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power? Easterling argues that the search for solutions is a mistake. Instead, she offers the perspective of medium design, one that considers not only separate objects, ideas and events but also the space between them. This background matrix with all its latent potentials is profoundly underexploited in a culture that is good at naming things but not so good at seeing how they connect and interact. In case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, Medium Design looks not to new technologies for innovation but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but rather put them together in productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organisations of all kinds." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781788739320 (hardcover)
1788739329 (hardcover)

Subject:

Design Philosophy.
Public spaces Philosophy.
Design Philosophie.
Espaces publics Philosophie.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Added entries:

Medium design

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309441
Call No.: BIB 254695
Status: Available

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