Ezio Manzini

Politics of the Everyday (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. Alternatively, they may help to create flexible communities that are open and inclusive, and therefore resilient and socially sustainable.

In Politics of the Everyday, Ezio Manzini discusses examples of social innovation that show how, even in these difficult times, a better kind of society is possible. By bringing autonomy and collaboration together, it is possible to develop new forms of design intelligence, for our own good, for the good of the communities we are part of, and for society as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350053663
• Artikelnr.: 54949754

Autorenporträt

Ezio Manzini founded DESIS Network, the international network of design for social innovation and sustainability. He is Distinguished Professor of Design for Social Innovation at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona; Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy; and Guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. His previous book Design, When Everybody Designs. An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation was published by MIT Press in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface You are here. A point of view and of action on the world 1. Light
communities. Social forms in a fluid world If the world becomes fluid.
Transformative social innovation. Local discontinuity in the transition.
Social commons and their regeneration. People, encounters and
conversations. Community as a space of opportunity. Continuity of place.
Meaningful encounters and their enabling ecosystems. The value of lightness
2. Life projects. Autonomy and collaboration Projects, designers and design
capability. The crisis of the conventional mode. Difficulties, risks and
opportunities. Projects, autonomy and new conventions. Capabilities, tools
and results. Life projects as bricolage. Complexity and individual
responsibility. Exploring and transforming the field of possibility.
Collaborative projects and autonomy. Collaborative living, as an example.
Communities of interest and communities of purpose. Enabling ecosystems and
designing coalitions. Collaboration and relational values. 3. Politics of
everyday life. Design activism and transformative normality Everyday life
makes policies. The world seen (and constructed) by those who live in it.
Change the world from where you are. The systemic effects of everyday
choices. Can we escape the control apparatus? Transgressive tactics and
strategies. From activism to transformative reality. Innovation
trajectories and design choices. The Platform economy and the new
co-operative movement. Sharing economy and collaborative economy.
Collaboration, efficiency and relational value. Everyday-life policies,
other policies and other democracies. 4. Project-centred democracy.
Ecosystems of ideas and projects The complex nature of democracy. A regime
capable of learning. The dimensions of the crisis. Experimenting
distributed democracy. Participatory democracy and social innovation.
Participatory enabling ecosystems. The scenario of project-centred
democracy. Infrastructure for project-centred democracy. Diffuse design
capabilities. Afterword Another book. Design experts and diffuse design
capability