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Book SynopsisIn this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.
Trade ReviewDesign and Solidarity is a must read for anyone who cares about care, mutuality, solidarity, collaboration, and capitalist alternatives. The conversations, essays, and pictures move from innovative theory to inspiring practice, all in a small and readable package. I will be carrying it with me. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America, and Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
Say good-bye to grandiose master plans. Say hello to temporary monuments, pop-up services, and mutualist economics.
Design and Solidarity is a field guide for rebuilding public life from the bottom up. -- Ellen Lupton, author of
Design Is StorytellingConcise, rich, and cross-disciplinary,
Design and Solidarity offers essential insights on how art, architecture, and design can fundamentally re-imagine how we will live together. -- Hashim Sarkis, Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and Curator, 2021 Venice Biennale Architettura
We see the emergence of collectives everywhere; from Black Lives Matter to the platform cooperativism movement, we are observing a proliferation of new kinds of social ties building. This book is among the first to bring together these scattered practices in a single frame. It also presents practical guidelines for action and design across disciplines and sectors, providing the readers with a list and discussion of resources that can be used to pursue communitarian or collective interests. -- Koray Caliskan, author of
Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global CommodityHow can art and architecture help create a society of greater mutualism and care? This book not only inspires and challenges readers to create worlds of greater mutualism, it also provides multiple blueprints, metaphoric and real, for how art and architecture can enhance communal self-determination, wealth, and well-being. -- Noam M. Elcott, author of
Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and MediaIt’s an exciting new frontier with many possibilities. -- Paul Makovsky * Architect Magazine *
It is inspiring and challenging and I will be returning to this one many times in the future...highly recommended. * Moonglo Texas *
Table of ContentsDesign Solidarity, by Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal
Conversations: On the Commons, by Michael Hardt
On Self-Determination in a World Where Many Worlds Fit, by Arturo Escobar
On Solidarity and Political Emancipation, by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
On Labor and Cooperatives, by Trebor Scholz
On Mutual Aid Societies and Digital-First Organizing, by Greg Lindsay
On Digital Platforms in Informal Economies, by Mercedes Bidart
On Mutualism and Care, by Ai-jen Poo
Architectures for New Collectives, by Rafi Segal
Creation as Counterpower, by Marisa Morán Jahn
Carehaus: Designing for Care, by Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal
Acknowledgments
About the Authors and Contributors
Index
