Drawing on philosophy, decolonial thought, and design theory, this book approaches design as a practice deeply implicated in modernity's extractive, colonial, and anthropocentric foundations
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Introduction
A-Z entries:
Agroecology: A world-wide peasant alternative to agro-industrial agriculture, involving entirely different food design principles.
Autonomy: Collective processes of decision making and direct democracy stemming from territorial and communal practices.
Buen Vivir (Living Well): An alternative to development involving a holistic conception of social life.
Civilizational transitions: Transitions to pluriversal models of life beyond the contemporary crisis of Western, modern worlds.
Commons: Ownership and governance of natural, knowledge, and technology resources that do not conform to the rules of capitalism and the state.
Comunalidad/ communality: A Latin American neologism referring to the fundamental human feature of being communal.
Conviviality: A style of living in which technology and the artificial are subordinated to the requirements of human and nonhuman life.
Cosmological perspectivism: Diverse socio-technical arrangements stemming from various cosmologies and ontologies.
Crianza mutua (mutual raising): The mutual co-creation of humans and nature practiced by indigenous peoples, akin to the Buddhist notion of dependent co-arising.
Degrowth: A critique of paradigms of growth and a theory of living well with less, and differently.
Design by other names (alter-design and non-design): The incredibly diverse practices of worlding in many parts of the world, even if not labelled as "design practices."
Designs from the South(s): Practices of alternative world-making mobilized by social movements and communities in the Global South.
Diverse Economies: Livelihood practices of communities worldwide that enact noncapitalist and communal principles.
Ecosocialism: An articulation of different critical traditions from the North and the South effecting "just transitions."
Ecozoic Era: A futural era beyond the terminal Cenozoic when humans and the Earth can finally coexist in mutually enhancing manners.
Feminine worlds: World-making practices emphasizing cooperation, communality, and care within, against, and despite heteropatriarchal capitalist ontologies.
Food sovereignty: International peasant movements' strategy against Green Revolution and agro-industrial corporate food practices.
Global Tapestry of Alternatives: A convergence of transformative alternatives for radical systemic change and radical ecological democracy.
Life Projects: Articulations by Indigenous peoples of their collective understanding and designing of the conditions of their re-existence.
Gambiarra: A Brazilian expression. To use improvised methods to solve a problem, with any available material. A "quick fix" just so it works for the time being.
Minobimaatisiiwin: An ontology of "living a good life" or living in a "total state of wellbeing in Anishinaabe and Cree cultures.
Mitakuye Oyasin: A deeply relational Lakota view of life and an indigenous theory of radical interdependence.
Mundo ch'ixi: Aymara (indigenous Bolivian) notion of the motley worlds created by indigenous popular groups in their encounter with dominant modern worlds.
Non-occidentalist Wests and non-dominant modernities: Historical and contemporary relational and non-instrumental ontologies existing within the West, in tension with the dominant ones.
Pachakuti: Aymara and Kichwa notion referring to an overturning of established orders, akin to a "civilizational transition."
Radical Resurgence: The reconstitution of indigenous worlds based on indigenous ontologies.
Pluriverse: A "world where many worlds fit," and a political project of interrupting the globalizing mission of fitting all worlds into one.
Self-organization and emergence: A rising biological paradigm that explains biological and social life without appealing to the modern assumptions of universality, teleology, linearity, causality, and progress.
Swaraj: A Gandhian notion referring to collective forms of self-governance, self-sufficiency, and autonomy.
Territories of Life: Territories where people hold life sacred, against extractivist activities, materialist life styles, and the project of modernity.
Ubuntu: Traditional concept from southern Africa meaning "I am because you are"; the basis for an entire ontology of relationality and reciprocity among all beings.
