Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) Paperback – Illustrated, March 22, 2018

This is an incredible book! Accessible to those who aren't familiar with design theory and a valuable resource to anyone thinking about how we should go forward given the ecological crisis we face. There is no question we need to redesign society and Escobar provides brilliant analysis of methodologies and insightful questions to think through as we do so. I highly recommend this book!

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This is a challenging book but it really didn't need to be, which is a tragic shame because the book is ultimately about inclusivity and access.Unfortunately many of the good and necessary ideas in the book will likely have trouble competing with more lightweight biz tech books, or with a cliff notes adaption of this very text. Improving design should be more accessible and feel less like a dusty university lecture.For example:- The introduction was 1 hour long and actually got into arguments and long excerpts of other texts.- The first 6 minutes of chapter 1 outlines the topics that the hour long chapter will cover, but failed to get to the point. Non-academic literature has moved on from this sort of traditional essay structure.- The next 6 minutes of that chapters try to make a point by using a novel excerpt that didn't connect to me. Why take such a long walk? The author and their ideas seems be hiding among citation and reference having their own internal conversation.- The book frequently displays academic jargon, minting politically-correct terms that aren't going to be useful to readers. This and and other annoyances that drew focus from central points. The awkward title says it all: any editor could have tightened that up to a punchier title that uses common words. Pluriverse is a word designed to elicit a groan.There are just so many opportunities for a reader to get lost, which will be frustrating for anyone looking for information or guidance but who isn't in love with this type of storytelling.I feel this needed a pop-biztech coauthor, a more aggressive editor and audience testing.To the author: Please think deeply about your broadest audience! Translate your ideas into consumable ideas.

Es un gran libro y considero que debe ser leído por todo estudiante y docente de diseño, realmente es muy inspirador.

This is essential reading for anybody who is doing research-creation or co-creation and is seriously interested in decolonizing your practice and care about the environment! This is becoming a Bible for grad school for me.

This book came as a suggestion through two other books that I purchased here. I made an impulse buy and it ended being a very nice surprise. Escobar, just as other authors is trying to reflect on the ontology of design but he offers a latin american perspective. So I would advise this book for readers interested in the subject that wish to have a less eurocentric perspective.

Arturo Escobar thinks of the earth from its heart. The professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina is critical of development strategies whose outcome is not only the abuse of earth (such as monocultures replacing biological diversity), but also the displacement of indigenous populations and thus the destruction of its communities and culture. In this brilliant book "Designs for the Pluriverse" Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice that is deeply attuned to justice and the earth. In short: A design theory that enables us to live with this planet – not against it.

Important book but the first page is missing! Not worth returning but poor quality