Designing for Multiverse

Table of Contents §

• Foreword in Japanese by Arturo Escobar

• Foreword and Acknowledgments

  • Placing the birth of this book within epistemological and political contexts
  • Acknowledgments

• Introduction

  • Thesis and overview of the book
  • From “development” to a pluralistic world
  • A wager
  • Designing a future with or without potential?

• Part One: Design for the Real World

  • Chapter One: Moving out of the studio into the flow of natural social life
    • The emergence of design in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo during a time when old media was new
    • Reengaging with the world: aiming for participatory, human-centered, socially-oriented design
    • Design as embedded interactive practice within situations
    • Architecture and urbanism: experimentation, destabilization, and the reinvention of the vernacular
    • The rise of design and digital technologies
    • What does sustainability mean in design?
    • Critical Design Studies and Speculative Design
    • Design and politics
  • Chapter Two: Elements for cultural studies of design
    • Design anthropology and the anthropology of design
    • Design anthropology
    • Ethnography and design
    • Anthropology of design
    • Design in development and humanitarian fields
    • Political ecology, feminist political ecology, and the emergence of political ontology
    • Political ontology and Southern epistemologies
    • Design under ontological occupation: political ontology of territorial struggles

• Part Two: Ontological Reorientation of Design

  • Chapter Three: What lies beneath our cultural background: rationalism, ontological dualism, relationality

    • Rationalism and the Cartesian tradition
    • Four beliefs at the epistemological core of modernity
    • Issues and challenges of ontological dualism
    • Political activation of relationality
    • A move in the game: on the limits of modern social theory
    • Relationality: transcending the divide of nature/culture

  • Chapter Four: Overview of ontological design

    • What is ontological design?
    • Ontological design as a conversation for action
    • Becoming human through design
    • Post-human humans and artifacts
    • What is sustainability through design?
    • Ontological design and the issue of agency
    • Non-dualism in everyday life? Barad’s question
    • Ontology of the relationship between design and music
    • Returning to ontological design

• Part Three: Designing for a Pluralistic World

  • Chapter Five: Design for transition

    • Discourse on transition
    • Transition discourse in the Global North
    • Three new areas for transition design: Transition Town Initiatives, degrowth, Commons
    • Post-development, Buen Vivir, rights of nature, and the transition of civilization
    • Comparing degrowth and post-development as transition imaginaries
    • Transition towards post-extractivism
    • Multiple designs for transition
    • Framework for transition design at CMU
    • Design for social innovation: the era where everyone designs

  • Chapter Six: Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationships and Commons

    • Autopoiesis and biological autonomy
    • Autonomy in social and cultural domains
    • Achieving the commons: non-liberal political forms and social organizations
    • Overview of autonomous design
    • Additional features of autonomous design# Thought Experiment for Transition in the Cauca River Valley Region of Colombia Cauca River Valley: Misguided Regional Development Expanding the Image of Transition Design in the Cauca River Valley Conclusion Liberation of Mother Earth as a Principle of Transition Design Bridging the Gap in Design for Transition between Global North and Global South Some Unresolved Issues Epilogue

Is the concept of Plurality slightly different in scope?

Is it related to Asymmetric Reality?