TY - BOOK ID - 79475210 TI - Design as politics PY - 2011 SN - 9781847885685 9781847885678 PB - Oxford Berg DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - political science KW - maatschappijleer KW - Design KW - Sustainability KW - 13 KW - 32 KW - Sustainability science KW - Human ecology KW - Social ecology KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Political aspects KW - Cultuurfilosofie KW - Politieke wetenschappen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79475210 AB - Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action ER -