Planetary Politics of Design
In an era of escalating ecological and political crises, design provides a hopeful language for planetary futures. Yet the legacies on which our promises of design build today may lie at the very heart of these crises. Focusing on planetary politics in early-twentieth century Germany, this lecture traces ecological notions of building to imperialist expansion and the spectre of fascism. These legacies ask us to reconsider how design accounts for human responsibility in a context of radical ecological interdependency.
Caption to image: Reymond von Moritz & Ludwig Manzel, Berliner Pflaster: Illustrierte Schilderunger aus dem Berliner Leben (Berlin: W.Pauli, 1891): 270
Bio and photo:
https://urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/kenny-r-cupers/