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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care Part 3c & Conclusion

Below is the final section of Part 3 from my recent grad school design paper in which I attempt to imagine a not-so-distant future world for the post-capitalist designer. We began by de-commodifying the basic necessities of life in Part 3a before proceeding to identify some post-capitalist design needs in Part 3b. Now, in Part…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care Part 3b: Imagining the World of The Post-Capitalist Designer – Identifying Post-Capitalist Design Needs

This is Part 3 of my recent grad school design paper in which I attempt to imagine a not-so-distant future world for the post-capitalist designer. We begin by de-commodifying the basic necessities of life (Part 3a) before proceeding to identify some post-capitalist design needs (Part 3b) which will then allow us to consider the roles…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care Part 3a: Imagining the World of The Post-Capitalist Designer – What has changed?

This is Part 3a of my recent grad school design paper in which I begin to imagine a not-so-distant future world for the post-capitalist designer. We begin by de-commodifying the basic necessities of life before proceeding to identify some post-capitalist design needs (Part 3b) which will then allow us to consider the roles of the…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 2b: What is Solarpunk?

This is the second section in Part 2 of my recent grad school design paper in which I explore two contemporary, post-capitalist movements that have much to offer our creative endeavor to imagine a new, ecologically sensitive design story. Degrowth and solarpunk are neither finished experiments nor cautionary tales but living, still-unfolding proposals, argued over…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 2a: What is Degrowth?

This is the first section in Part 2 of my recent grad school design paper in which I explore two contemporary, post-capitalist movements that have much to offer our creative endeavor to imagine a new, ecologically sensitive design story. Degrowth and solarpunk are neither finished experiments nor cautionary tales but living, still-unfolding proposals, argued over…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 1d: The Design Institutes of China

This is the fourth section in Part 1 of my recent grad school design paper in which I explore four laboratories of non-capitalist and postsocialist design. Please find the preceding sections below if you’d like to catch up: Introduction Part 1a: The Designed Object as Comrade in Constructivist Russia Part 1b: Advertising as Cultural Strategy…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 1c: Design in Cuba: Sufficiency and Resourcefulness in Action

This is the third section in Part 1 of my recent grad school design paper in which I explore four laboratories of non-capitalist and postsocialist design. Please find the preceding sections below if you’d like to catch up: Introduction Part 1a: The Designed Object as Comrade in Constructivist Russia Part 1b: Advertising as Cultural Strategy…

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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Part 1b: Advertising as Cultural Strategy in Socialist Yugoslavia

This is Part 1b of my recent grad school design paper, the introduction can be read here. and Part 1a can be read here. … From 1918 to 1992 Yugoslavia improvised their very own “third way”  type of economy. In 1948 Josip Broz Tito broke with Stalin and pulled Yugoslavia (which today is comprised of…

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The Designer as Moral Compass: Minimalism, Animism, and Quaker Plaining

“Rodchenko names a new kind of emotionally affective object: the comradely object of socialist modernity. Unlike the commodities he encounters on his visit to capitalist Paris, which elicit a possessive relation that makes the objects into “slaves,” things made in the socialist East will actively promote egalitarian socialist culture. They will replace the pleasure of…

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The Judgement and Salvation of the Lone Star Tick: Mammals, Meat, and Non-Human Prophets

“The central theme in the prophecy of Joel, one of the 12 minor prophets (dōdekaprophēton), is that the Day of the Lord (yōm ădȏnay) is at hand (chs. 2–3). […] Joel utilizes the concept contextually for his contemporaries, using the locust swarms to point to the Day of the Lord as a day of both…

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