"Designing in an Era of Xenophobia"

Tonkinwise, C

"Designing in an Era of Xenophobia"

Tonkinwise, C

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Publisher:: IADE-U
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: The Radical Designist, 2016, 6
Issue Date:: 2016-06

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dc.contributor.author	Tonkinwise, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9006-7772	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-06	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Radical Designist, 2016, 6	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1646-5288	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/127722
dc.description.abstract	The Anthropocene acknowledges that the volume of designed things is now harming the sustainability of the ecosystems on which current ways of living depend. As a result, there is an urgent need for us to do things differently. But how differently? The history of the idea of ecology has involved putting limits on tolerable diversity. For this reason, ecological politics can be compatible with anti-immigration politics. This article argues instead for a critical diversity, one that can counter the current Proactionary Imperative, which extols high risk but potentially high return, radical technological responses to our societies’ unsustainability. That critical diversity would embrace designing for migration between connected slow, local, communities.	en_US
dc.publisher	IADE-U	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Radical Designist	en_US
dc.title	"Designing in an Era of Xenophobia"	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Abstract:

The Anthropocene acknowledges that the volume of designed things is now harming the sustainability of the ecosystems on which current ways of living depend. As a result, there is an urgent need for us to do things differently. But how differently? The history of the idea of ecology has involved putting limits on tolerable diversity. For this reason, ecological politics can be compatible with anti-immigration politics. This article argues instead for a critical diversity, one that can counter the current Proactionary Imperative, which extols high risk but potentially high return, radical technological responses to our societies’ unsustainability. That critical diversity would embrace designing for migration between connected slow, local, communities.

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