Description
A landmark text in design discourse for a world desperately in need of redesign--back in print
What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tom s 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.Author: Tomás Maldonado
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/09/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781517907006
ISBN10: 1517907004
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Architecture | Criticism
- Architecture | History | Contemporary (1945 -)
About the Author
Tomás Maldonado (1922-2018) was an Argentine painter, designer, and intellectual. He was professor of environmental design at Politecnico di Milano University and is considered one of the most significant design thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Larry Busbea is associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and author of Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970.