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Book SynopsisEduardo Staszowski is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, USA, and Director/co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. Working to enhance participation in policy development and civic design, he studies design as a method and language, and its role as an intermediary, creating, and orienting processes of social innovation and sustainability.
Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium, where she also founded the LUCA DESIS Lab; Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a design researcher for Pantopicon, an Antwerp-based foresight and design studio. Her research areas are design and philosophy, with a specific focus on design for social innovation, participatory design and design activism.
Trade ReviewThe conception of "designing in dark times" developed in this admirable and interesting project is in harmony with the Arendt's thinking and writing. It makes a welcome and practical addition to the large and growing literature on Arendt. * Jerome Kohn, a Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust, teaches at The New School, USA and has published several volumes of Arendt’s published and unpublished writings, the most recent is Thinking Without a Bannister: Essays in Understanding 1953-1975 (2018) *
A provocative and timely intervention into the politics of design, this is the first book to bring Hannah Arendt’s ideas directly into critical conversation with the urgent questions of designing today: a vital tool for every designer and design scholar’. * Alison Clarke is a University Professor, Chair of Design History & Theory and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Austria *
Table of ContentsSeries Foreword: The Urgency of the Possible Preface: On Hannah Arendt
Kenneth Frampton Acknowledgements Introduction:
Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari I: Hannah Arendt & Designing in Dark Times II: The Lexicon
A Action, Activism, Alienation,
Animal Laborans,
Animal rationale, Anthropocentrism
B Beginnings, Bourgeois, Bureaucracy
C Citizenship, Common good, Common interests, Common world, Comprehension, Courage, Creativity
D Democracy
E Equality, Evil
F Fabrication, Freedom
H History, Homo Faber, Human rights, Humanity
I Imagination (by Hannah Arendt), Imperialism Insert: Martha Rosler
, Reading Hannah Arendt (Politically, for an American in the 21st Century) In-between, Instrumentality
L Labor, Law
M Metabolism, Mortality
N Natality
O Objectivity
P Pariah, Play, Plurality, Power, Private realm, Public
R Reification
S Solitude, Speech, Spontaneity, Stories, Superfluity
T Technology, Thought, Thoughtlessness, Togetherness, Totalitarianism
V Violence,
Vita Activa, Vita Contemplativa Afterword: Richard J. Bernstein, The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt List of Contributors
