Design as the Healing of the Web of Life: Beyond Globalization

Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNC at Chapel Hill

In the face of deepening social and ecological crises, design is emerging as a crucial domain of thought and praxis about life itself and the creation of worlds. This confers upon design/ing an ineluctable ontological-political dimension. This lecture outlines ongoing reorientations of design as a relational praxis of ontological repair, against the ravages of globalization, and describes the early stages of application of "autonomous transition design" in the Cauca River Valley in Southwest Colombia.

*Lunch Conversation w/Arturo Escobar, April 8, 11:30am-1pm, Rubenstein 349. Please RSVP to jon.puckett@duke.edu