Please join the Design Justice Philadelphia Node as we collectively read Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar. We’ll meet every other week - This week’s focus will be Chapter 2 - Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design

Escobar describes design as an “ethical praxis of world-making” - an idea that inspired the subtitle to Sasha Costanza-Chock’s recent book Design Justice. We hope you can join our discussion on the creation of a world “where many worlds fit.”

Meet us on Jitsi to join the reading group: https://meet.jit.si/DesignJusticePhillyNode

The full reading can be downloaded here

Schedule

1. October 14: Introduction

2. October 28: Chapter 1 - Out of the Studio and into the Flow of Socionatural Life

3. November 11: Chapter 2 - Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design (THIS WEEK!)

4. November 25: Holiday (no session)

5. December 9: Chapter 3 - In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and Relationality

6. December 23: Holiday (no session)

7. January 6: Chapter 4 - An Outline of Ontological Design

8. January 20: Chapter 5 - Design for Transitions

9. February 3: Chapter 6 - Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal + Conclusion