{"product_id":"designing-in-dark-times-9781350070257","title":"Designing in Dark Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Staszowski\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Tassinari\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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Bluecher Literary Trust, teaches at The New School, USA and has published several volumes of Arendt’s published and unpublished writings, the most recent is Thinking Without a Bannister: Essays in Understanding 1953-1975 (2018) *\u003cbr\u003eA provocative and timely intervention into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 \u0026amp; Theory and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Austria *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Foreword: The Urgency of the Possible   Preface: On Hannah Arendt \u003ci\u003eKenneth Frampton\u003c\/i\u003e   Acknowledgements   Introduction:\u003ci\u003e Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari\u003c\/i\u003e I: Hannah Arendt \u0026amp; Designing in Dark Times II: The Lexicon   \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e Action, Activism, Alienation, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Laborans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnimal rationale\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthropocentrism   \u003cb\u003eB\u003c\/b\u003e Beginnings, Bourgeois, Bureaucracy   \u003cb\u003eC\u003c\/b\u003e Citizenship, Common good, Common interests, Common world, Comprehension, Courage, Creativity   \u003cb\u003eD\u003c\/b\u003e Democracy   \u003cb\u003eE\u003c\/b\u003e Equality, Evil             \u003cb\u003eF\u003c\/b\u003e  Fabrication, Freedom   \u003cb\u003eH                                                                                                             \u003c\/b\u003e History, Homo Faber, Human rights, Humanity     \u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e Imagination (by Hannah Arendt), Imperialism   Insert: Martha Rosler\u003ci\u003e, Reading Hannah Arendt (Politically, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003efor an American in the 21st Century)\u003c\/i\u003e   In-between, Instrumentality   \u003cb\u003eL                                                                                              \u003c\/b\u003e Labor, Law   \u003cb\u003eM                                                                                                                                                                                            \u003c\/b\u003e Metabolism, Mortality   \u003cb\u003eN\u003c\/b\u003e Natality                                                      \u003cb\u003eO                                                                                                                                                             \u003c\/b\u003e Objectivity   \u003cb\u003eP                                                                                                                                                                              \u003c\/b\u003e Pariah, Play, Plurality, Power, Private realm, Public   \u003cb\u003eR\u003c\/b\u003e Reification   \u003cb\u003eS\u003c\/b\u003e Solitude, Speech, Spontaneity, Stories, Superfluity   \u003cb\u003eT                                                                                                                                                                              \u003c\/b\u003e Technology, Thought, Thoughtlessness, Togetherness, Totalitarianism   \u003cb\u003eV                                                                                                                                                                             \u003c\/b\u003e Violence, \u003ci\u003eVita Activa, Vita Contemplativa\u003c\/i\u003e   Afterword: Richard J. Bernstein, The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt                                              List of Contributors","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407503991127,"sku":"9781350070257","price":18.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350070257.jpg?v=1730499600","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/designing-in-dark-times-9781350070257","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}